Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 261-2023
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.
To better understand how your trust procures healthcare and specialised transport services from the independent sector, please clarify how many private providers were contracted each year.
Additionally, please provide the following data for your Trust and for each financial year 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, and 2022/23:
For each independent provider, what was the spend £ value. on independent sector providers for healthcare and specialised transport services within your Trust, and the respective volumes of patients / transportations that you realised with contracted independent sector providers, split by:
– High Dependency critically ill. patients
– Neonatal new born / premature. patients
– Non-Emergency patients
– Other patients, not included in previous splits.
– Other non-patients, such as equipment and medication.
FY 2021/22
1 provider
MH Non-emergency £123,555.55
FY 2022/23
1 provider
MH Non-emergency £113,128.59
We do not hold the information from previous years.
FOI Request
I am writing with a Freedom of Information request regarding the use of healthcare and specialised transport services within your Trust.
To better understand how your trust procures healthcare and specialised transport services from the independent sector, please clarify how many private providers were contracted each year.
Additionally, please provide the following data for your Trust and for each financial year 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, and 2022/23:
1. For each independent provider, what was the spend £ value. on independent sector providers for healthcare and specialised transport services within your Trust, and the respective volumes of patients / transportations that you realised with contracted independent sector providers, split by:
- High Dependency critically ill. patients
- Neonatal newborn / premature. patients
- Non-Emergency patients
- Other patients, not included in previous splits.
- Other non-patients, such as equipment and medication.