
Internal Reference Number: FOI_9313
Date Request Received: 26/03/2026 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 14/04/2026 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Third party insourcing providers
Request Category: Private Individuals
| Question Number 1: Under the Freedom of Information Act, details in respect to the trust. The details we require are: • Has the Trust used any third-party insourcing providers to deliver clinical services within the last 12 months? If yes, please provide: • Provider name • Clinical specialty supported • Total spend per provider • Total spend per specialty | |
| Answer To Question 1: Dermatology Insourcing - Healthcare Business Solutions (UK) Limited - See attached for Spend Echocardiography Insourcing - ICS Operations Limited - See attached for Spend Clinical Insourcing Gastro Weekday - ID Medical Group Limited - See attached for Spend Ultrasound Insourcing - Medicare Insourcing Services Limited - See attached for Spend Orthopaedics Insourcing - Trust Health Limited - See attached for Spend | |
| Question Number 2: For each specialty where insourcing has been used, please provide the job title and name of the relevant budget holder. | |
| Answer To Question 2: Dermatology Insourcing - andy.phillips5@nhs.net Echocardiography Insourcing - c.mansfield1@nhs.net Clinical Insourcing Gastro Weekday - Rachael.east@nhs.net Ultrasound Insourcing - simon.donovan@nhs.net Orthopaedics Insourcing - andy.phillips5@nhs.net | |
| Question Number 3: Which clinical specialties currently have waiting list sizes or waiting times above the applicable national standard? | |
| Answer To Question 3: Please see the nationally published NHS Referral to Treatment waiting time standard information here: https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/rtt-waiting-times/ | |
| Question Number 4: For any specialties above the national standard, is the Trust: • currently using insourcing providers, or • actively planning / procuring insourcing support? | |
| Answer To Question 4: All of the specialties referenced in Question 1 are stated as above the NHS operational standard within the Referral to Treatment Waiting Times data referenced in Question 3, and are therefore actively supported by Insourcing providers. There is currently no evidence to suggest additional Insourcing models are being procured at this moment. | |
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