In line with my rights under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to make a freedom of information request to Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust in regard to the following:

1. In the last financial year, what was the Trust spend on patient pathway validation obtained from external providers (contractors, staffing agencies)?

£0

2. Does the Trust currently utilise software developed and provided by an external provider to generate information on the Trust’s incomplete, planned inpatient or planned outpatient waiting list data (dashboards, reports etc)?
No

3. In the last financial year, what was the Trust spend on software developed and provided by an external provider to generate information on the Trust’s incomplete, planned inpatient or planned outpatient waiting list data (dashboards, reports etc)?
£0

4. Does the Trust currently utilise software developed and provided by an external provider to generate information on cancer waiting list data (dashboards, reports etc)?

No

5. In the last financial year, what was the Trust spend on software developed and provided by an external provider to generate information on cancer waiting list data (dashboards, reports etc)?
£0

6. Does the Trust currently use an external provider to deliver RTT training to Trust staff?
No

7. In the last financial year, what was the Trust spend on externally developed RTT training?
£0

8. What Patient Administration System (PAS) is currently used by the Trust?

We have two systems that make up our PAS system PMS2 (in-house) and UltraGenda.

9. What Patient Administration System (PAS) is the Trust planning to procure and utilise once the Trust’s existing PAS contract has expired?
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) completed a merger by acquisition of Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust (HEFT) on April 1 2018. We are planning to align systems during the next two years.

10. In the last financial year, has the Trust had an audit or review of the Trust’s patient waiting list data quality by an external organisation?

Yes

11. In the last financial year, what was the Trust’s spend on review or audit of the Trust’s patient waiting list data quality delivered by an external organisation?

There were no internal audit days allocated to RTT in the 2017/18 year so there was no cost associated with audit of RTT.

RTT was one of the indicators tested as part of the March 2018 Quality Report work performed by external audit (KPMG. However, the cost of the audit cannot be split down to give a cost of RTT as it is an agreed fee that is not split into hours for relevant sections of the audit. The cost of the audit was £18k (including VAT) for 2 indicators.