Our ref: FOI101

15 April 2011

By email

Dear Mr Mason

Freedom of Information Request regarding

Original request:
  1. Who is your current provider?
  2. How much do you pay for the services per year?
  3. When was the contract/service level agreement last market tested to ensure best value?
  4. Who is the person responsible for such transport and what is their postal, phone and email address?

Our response:

Thank you for your Freedom of Information Act enquiry dated 29 March 2011 and I am pleased to provide you with the answers to your questions below.

Question 1

Our current providers are:

  • Southampton University Hospitals Trust, Nursling
  • Portsmouth Hospital Trust (Queen Alexandra)
  • Winchester & Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust, County Hospital, Romsey Road, Winchester
  • Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust
  • Frimley Park Hospital, Frimley, Surrey

Question 2

  • SUHT : £41,458
  • Portsmouth Hospital Trust : £83,175
  • WECHT : £35,956
  • Basingstoke & North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust : No contract - provided ‘in house’.
  • Frimley Park Hospital : No contract - provided ‘in house’.

Question 3

We have just merged with another organisation and will be reviewing courier services in terms of duplication and whether current contracts provide a value for money service.

Question 4

Jayne Harvey, Contracting & Performance Manager, Hampshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, 8 Sterne Road, Tatchbury Mount, Calmore, Hampshire SO40 2RZ, email , telephone 023 8087 4270.

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You are free to use any information supplied for your own use, including for non-commercial research purposes. The information may also be used for the purposes of news reporting. However, any other type of re-use, for example by publishing the information or issuing copies to the public, will require the express written permission of the Hampshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

If you have any complaints in respect of your information request, please write to the Complaints Manager at:

Hampshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

PALS and Complaints Department

5-6 Sterne Road

Tatchbury Mount

Calmore

Southampton

SO40 2RZ

If your complaint is not resolved to your complete satisfaction, you have the right to apply to the Information Commissioner for a decision. The Information Commissioner’s Office can be contacted by way of letter addressed to:

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

If you have any queries about this letter, please contact me. It would be useful if you would quote the reference above in any future communications.

Yours sincerely,

Victoria Amos

Freedom of Information

Hampshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Telephone: 02380 874063

An NHS Teaching Trust with the University of Southampton

Trust Headquarters, Maples, Tatchbury Mount, Horseshoe Drive, Calmore, Southampton SO40 2RZ