Internal Reference Number: FOI_9568
Date Request Received: 23/07/2026 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 25/08/2026 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Trust鈥檚 Outpatient MSK Physiotherapy Services
Request Category: Private Individuals
| Question Number 1: Please could you provide the following information regarding musculoskeletal physiotherapy services provided by your trust. Is your trust contracted by its ICB to provide musculoskeletal physiotherapy services? | |
| Answer To Question 1: Yes, as part of Inpatient and Outpatient pathways. The majority of MSK services are provided by another organisation HCRG. However SFT do offer specialist rehab in Wessex Rehab and some paediatric MSK work. | |
| Question Number 2: Are any of the musculoskeletal physiotherapy services your trust is contracted to provide provided directly by the trust itself (as opposed to being subcontracted to an independent provider)? If so, what are the names of these services? (For example, for Guy鈥檚 and St Thomas鈥� NHS Foundation Trust the names of their relevant services would be 鈥楳usculoskeletal physiotherapy鈥� and 鈥楳usculoskeletal assessment service (MCATTS)鈥�.) | |
| Answer To Question 2: Yes. Some of paediatric physiotherapy Complex rehab by Wessex rehab | |
| Question Number 3: If some of your musculoskeletal physiotherapy services are subcontracted to independent providers, please list the names of these independent providers. | |
| Answer To Question 3: N/A | |
| Question Number 4: For the following questions, based on your answers to questions 2 and 3, please provide information for the totals across musculoskeletal physiotherapy services provided directly by your trust itself (i.e. 鈥楾rust services鈥�) and indirectly by independent providers (i.e. 鈥業ndependent providers鈥�). For both trust services and services by independent providers, the total number of referrals received for musculoskeletal physiotherapy in each of the calendar years given. See attached | |
| Answer To Question 4: The Trust are unable to provide a response to this FOI as the cohort of musculoskeletal physiotherapy patients will be incorporated with other types of patients in the same physiotherapy clinics. We are unable to separate out these different types of patient attending the same clinic. To accompany this answer to question 4 please also see the documents listed below:  FOI 9568 - Q4.docx | |
| Question Number 5: For both in-house services and services by independent providers, the total number of patients that received an initial musculoskeletal physiotherapy appointment in each of the calendar years given. See attached | |
| Answer To Question 5: The Trust are unable to provide a response to this FOI as the cohort of musculoskeletal physiotherapy patients will be incorporated with other types of patients in the same physiotherapy clinics. We are unable to separate out these different types of patient attending the same clinic. To accompany this answer to question 5 please also see the documents listed below: FOI 9568 - Q5.docx | |
| Question Number 6: For both in-house services and services by independent providers, the total expenditure on musculoskeletal physiotherapy services in each of the calendar years given. See attached | |
| Answer To Question 6: I attach the costs of MSK physio undertaken by the external provider back to 21-22 which is as far back as our current finance system allows. Re the internal costs we are unable to identify this due to the reasons set out in answers to Qs 4,5 and 7. To accompany this answer to question 6 please also see the documents listed below: FOI 9568 - Q6.docx FOI 9568.xlsx | |
| Question Number 7: For all musculoskeletal physiotherapy services across your trust, the average number of patients on the waiting list for each of the calendar years given. See attached | |
| Answer To Question 7: The Trust are unable to provide a response to this FOI as the cohort of musculoskeletal physiotherapy patients will be incorporated with other types of patients in the same physiotherapy waiting lists. We are unable to separate out these different types of patients on waiting lists for Physiotherapy. To accompany this answer to question 7 please also see the documents listed below: FOI 9568 - Q7.docx | |
| Question Number 8: As a final question, if you are able, please can you provide a breakdown by individual independent providers of the total number of patients assessed by independent providers you gave above. Please add additional rows to the table if required. See attached | |
| Answer To Question 8: N/A To accompany this answer to question 8 please also see the documents listed below: FOI 9568 - Q8.docx | |
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