FOI 1725 - Aromatherapy
FOI Reference Number:
1725
Request
What is your policy on aromatherapy? Please provide a copy of your policy, if you have one.
In the last five years, have you engaged an aromatherapy practitioner for the provision of aromatherapy to NHS patients?
In which years?
What was the cost to the NHS for each of these years?
How many patients were given aromatherapy in each of these years?
Please break the results down by condition.
Do you currently have a contract in place with any provider for the provision of aromatherapy services?
Please provide a copy of the contract
Which external organisations, charities or companies (if any) have you contracted or engaged with over the provision of aromatherapy in the last three years?
Please include copies of any promotional materials, advertising materials or other documentation provided by the external organisation as part of this engagement?
Response
Date: 14 December 2022
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION – DECISION NOTICE
Dear Sir / Madam,
FOI Reference Number: 1725
What is your policy on aromatherapy? Please provide a copy of your policy, if you have one.
In the last five years, have you engaged an aromatherapy practitioner for the provision of aromatherapy to NHS patients?
In which years?
What was the cost to the NHS for each of these years?
How many patients were given aromatherapy in each of these years?
Please break the results down by condition.
Do you currently have a contract in place with any provider for the provision of aromatherapy services?
Please provide a copy of the contract
Which external organisations, charities or companies (if any) have you contracted or engaged with over the provision of aromatherapy in the last three years?
Please include copies of any promotional materials, advertising materials or other documentation provided by the external organisation as part of this engagement?
Our response:
Thank you for your request for information as below. I can confirm that Derby and Derbyshire ICB (and our predecessor organisations Derby & Derbyshire CCG and the 4 separate Derbyshire CCGs prior to merging in 2019) do not and have not at any time commissioned aromatherapy services. We do not hold and have not at any time held any policies, activity or contracts relating to aromatherapy, and have not engaged with any providers with regards to these services.
I hope that this answers your queries with the information we currently hold, but if I can be of any further assistance please do not hesitate to contact me.
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the right to ask for an internal review. Internal review requests should be submitted within two months of the date of receipt of the response to your original letter and should be addressed to:
NHS Derby and Derbyshire ICB
FOI Team
Scarsdale
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Newbold
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S41 7PF
Or:
If you are not content with the outcome of our review, you may apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. Generally, the ICO cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the complaints procedure provided by the Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board (ICB).
The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information Commissioners Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF, telephone 0303 123 1113, email casework@ico.org.uk.
Yours faithfully,
Kathryn Jacklin
FOI Officer
Derby and Derbyshire ICB
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