Wednesday 02 April 2025
Internal Reference Number: FOI_8310
Date Request Received: 26/11/2024 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 06/01/2025 00:00:00
This response was sent via: By Email
Request Summary: Trust’s total insourcing spending
Request Category: Private Individuals
| Question Number 1: I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Please could you provide the below information: What was the Trust’s total insourcing spending for the last three financial years (ending March)? Insourcing is a term used to describe the provision of medical specialty, consultant-led surgical or clinical services, which are deployed to a participating authority within existing structures to utilise spare, out-of-hours capacity, typically at weekends and evenings, within a trust. Insourcing is not the deployment of temporary workers or the use of temporary staffing agencies to support with capacity and demand planning, and the supply or management of temporary workers into a trust. | |
| Answer To Question 1: Please see attached file in response to Qs 1 and 2. To accompany this answer to question 1 please also see the documents listed below:  FOI 8310 - Q1 & 2 response.xlsx | |
| Question Number 2: What was the Trust's total insourcing spending on a) ophthalmology b) gastroenterology c) dermatology d) ENT for the last three financial years (ending March)? | |
| Answer To Question 2: Please see attached file in response to Qs 1 and 2. | |
| Question Number 3: What was the Trust's total insourcing spending on a) 18 Week Support b) Medinet c) HBS UK (Healthcare Business Solutions UK) | |
| Answer To Question 3: a) 18 Week Support - £513k b) Medinet - £0 c) HBS UK (Healthcare Business Solutions UK) - £0 | |
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