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FOI – 2023-000289 - Specialist Seating (HTML)

Published on 08 September 2023

Date received – 14 August 2023 | Date responded – 08 September 2023

Request

Please can the following information be provided for your organisation in full. If there have been any organisational changes within the timeframe request such as mergers, please indicate this.

  1. Please can you provide the last 3 years spend on specialist seating used for patients ie recliners and tilt in space chairs not general staff or waiting type seating, excluding VAT, broken down by year ie 2020, 2021 and 2022. There is no preference on if this is fiscal or calendar year.

  2. In each of these years please could you highlight the 3 models you purchased/rented the most of by quantity

  3. Do you purchase outright or rent/hire your specialist seating for the trust. If there is a mixture, please could you quantify the split per year for the last 3 years

  4. Please confirm which manufacturers of specialist seating your organisation purchased/rented from ie Ocura, DHG, Seating Matters, Remtec, Vivid Care, Premiere, Felgains Formal, Caremed. If multiple suppliers, please could you outline the top 3 by spend per year for 3 the last 3 years

  5. Are you currently in a specialist seating contract if so who is this with, when does this run to and is there an agreed extension in place

  6. Within the last 12 months has there been any entry to the trusts risk register with regards to specialist seating and if so has this been resolved or still open

  7. Please can you provide the details of your hospitals care or multidisciplinary team (MDT's) that collaborate to provide fundamental care for patients

Response

I can advise you that we have now completed the search of our records and can provide you with the following information:

Please can the following information be provided for your organisation in full. If there have been any organisational changes within the timeframe request such as mergers, please indicate this.

There have been no significant organisational changes or mergers in the last three years.

1. Please can you provide the last 3 years spend on specialist seating used for patients ie recliners and tilt in space chairs not general staff or waiting type seating, excluding VAT, broken down by year ie 2020, 2021 and 2022. There is no preference on if this is fiscal or calendar year.

Under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information Act, 2002 an organisation does not have to provide that information if it does not hold that information. NHS national Services Scotland (NSS) do not hold this information as each individual Health Board purchase this type of equipment locally and on an ad-hoc basis. There is no national spend data available. Please see the list below for contact details of the territory Health Boards.

2. In each of these years please could you highlight the 3 models you purchased/rented the most of by quantity

Please refer to our answer to Question 1.

3. Do you purchase outright or rent/hire your specialist seating for the trust. If there is a mixture, please could you quantify the split per year for the last 3 years

Please refer to our answer to Question 1.

4. Please confirm which manufacturers of specialist seating your organisation purchased/rented from ie Ocura, DHG, Seating Matters, Remtec, Vivid Care, Premiere, Felgains Formal, Caremed. If multiple suppliers, please could you outline the top 3 by spend per year for 3 the last 3 years

Please refer to our answer to Question 1.

5. Are you currently in a specialist seating contract if so who is this with, when does this run to and is there an agreed extension in place

Please refer to our answer to Question 1.

6. Within the last 12 months has there been any entry to the trusts risk register with regards to specialist seating and if so has this been resolved or still open

Please refer to our answer to Question 1.

7. Please can you provide the details of your hospitals care or multidisciplinary team (MDT's) that collaborate to provide fundamental care for patients

Under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information Act, 2002 an organisation does not have to provide that information if it does not hold that information. NSS does not hold this information as we do not have any hospitals or direct patient care within this board. This information would have to be obtained at territory Health Board level. Each board can be contacted using the below email addresses:

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