FOI Request
- Disclosure ID
- FOI/03391
- Request Date
- October 29, 2019
- Subject
- Clinical Services Insourcing
- Description
1). Do you insource any clinical services and which ones?
2). Do you have a contract with any company and who is that and for which insourcing services?
3). Did you procure this under any current framework and if so which one?
4). How is this charged for by the third party service provider per patient/per tariff
5). Are you currently being charged below, on or above NHS tariff?
6). Do you use substantively employed Trust staff to delivery all or part of the insourced service?
7). The total number of procedures completed by each supplier (named) in the following categories:
Endoscopy
Ophthalmology
ENT
Neurology
Dermatology
All Other – Ultrasound only
8). The total spend completed by each supplier (named) per service area
9). Please give an annual breakdown per annum of insourcing services per service area:
15/16
16/17
17/18
18/19
- Response
1). Our Trust insources only 1 clinical service and that is Ultrasound
2). Northern Medical Ultrasound – Ultrasound
3). No, this was procured under a Trust Contract
4). Unit cost per case
5). I can confirm Northern Medical Ultrasound are paid on a sessional basis rather than per scan. Comparing the number of scans for the total paid to NMU averages the charge per scan out at less than the national tariff.
6). No
7).
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
See below
8). The total spend by the Trust for the last 4 financial years for insourced Ultrasound services is £894,000
9).
Year Activity 15/16 7,088 16/17 11,154 17/18 19,872 18/19 14,344