Internal Reference Number: FOI_9354
Date Request Received: 22/04/2026 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 19/05/2026 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Dermatology Waiting List Management Part 2
Request Category: Private Individuals
| Question Number 1: I am writing under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request information from your NHS trust regarding expenditure relating to dermatology services, including where dermatology is recorded either as a standalone specialty or as part of a broader aggregated category. Please note I have already sent a similar FOI 9333 to your department - this is a separate request asking for information from pre-2024. Total Spending Please provide the Trust鈥檚 annual expenditure for each of the financial years from April 2018 (FY 2018/19) to April 2024, where the expenditure relates in full or in part to dermatology services: A. Total spend (拢) on Waiting List Initiatives (WLIs) B. Total spend (拢) on insourcing C. Total spend (拢) on outsourcing Where dermatology expenditure is not held separately, please provide figures for any broader specialty, service line, cost centre, programme, or contract that includes dermatology activity (for example, but not limited to, medical specialties, elective recovery programmes, clinical outsourcing, or independent sector provision), and indicate how dermatology is included within that category. For the avoidance of doubt, this request includes expenditure on dermatology services delivered by independent sector, private, third-party, or digital providers, whether delivered in person or remotely regardless of how such expenditure is categorised internally. Definitions 鈥� Waiting List Initiatives (WLIs): sessional or additional payments made for extra work undertaken by Trust-employed staff to address capacity pressures or reduce waiting lists. 鈥� Insourcing: external providers delivering clinical services within the Trust鈥檚 facilities or infrastructure. 鈥� Outsourcing: commissioning external providers to deliver services using non-Trust facilities. | |
| Answer To Question 1: A. The Trust do not hold information on WLIs for the period. B. We recorded insourcing and outsourcing costs for the period as Purchase of Healthcare by NHS and Non NHS providers, and this is how we report costs. The attached file shows expenditure under this category for the period. We do not report insourcing and outsourcing separately. To accompany this answer to question 1 please also see the documents listed below:  FOI 9354 answer.xlsx | |
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