FOI 1658 - Endoscopy staff
FOI Reference Number:
1658
Request
I am writing with a Freedom of Information request regarding the contracted provision of endoscopy staff and facilities, from the independent sector, at your trust. We would like to get data on the contracts your trust has with independent providers that result in:
Your Trust’s staff using independent provider facilities (rooms, instruments and scopes, decontamination equipment) to perform endoscopies, or
Complete outsource of full service, i.e., your Trust is paying for patients to get endoscopies by independent sector staff in independent sector facilities.
For those contracts, could you please provide:
The name of the provider
Start and End date of contract
Type of contract (facilities only, facilities and staff (service model))
Value of contract
JAG accreditation (Y/N is enough) – refers to either facilities or staff and facilities depending on contract
Indication on patient activity plan (or number of rooms and number of FTE staff) outsourced (if full service contract type)
Number of beds (and/or) rooms contracted (if facilities contract)
Response
Date: 30 August 2022
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION – DECISION NOTICE
Dear Sir / Madam,
FOI Reference Number: 1658
Your Trust’s staff using independent provider facilities (rooms, instruments and scopes, decontamination equipment) to perform endoscopies, or
Complete outsource of full service, i.e., your Trust is paying for patients to get endoscopies by independent sector staff in independent sector facilities.
For those contracts, could you please provide:
The name of the provider
Start and End date of contract
Type of contract (facilities only, facilities and staff (service model))
Value of contract
JAG accreditation (Y/N is enough) – refers to either facilities or staff and facilities depending on contract
Indication on patient activity plan (or number of rooms and number of FTE staff) outsourced (if full service contract type)
Number of beds (and/or) rooms contracted (if facilities contract)
Our response:
Thank you for your email.
As a commissioning organisation, the ICB is not a Trust and do not provide any clinical services. We would recommend that you contact our providers directly for the information that you are seeking.
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
Nightingale Close
Newbold
Chesterfield
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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