Freedom of Information Request: FOI 0171
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) completed a merger by acquisition of Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust (HEFT) on 1st April 2018. UHB includes Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Solihull Hospital and Community Services, Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield and Birmingham Chest Clinic.
For the purposes of this request we have answered on behalf of the whole Trust.
I am writing to request data under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for all the Radiology and Ultrasound equipment at the hospitals within your Trust.
For support, I have attached an excel document which sets out the information that I would like to gather. I would be grateful if you could populate the attachment and provide with your response. Hopefully this will make the process easier for the person collating and providing the information. A summary of the information requested in the excel attachment is shown below:
1. For each individual Radiology and Ultrasound diagnostic imaging system within the Trust:
a. Site Location (Hospital Name)
b. Manufacturer Name
c. Model Name
d. Whether the equipment has been Purchased / Leased / MES
e. Age of equipment (years)
f. Current Service provider name
g. Current Service contract end date
h. Current Service contract type:
i. Preventative Maintenance
ii. Fully Comprehensive
i. Service cost per annum
j. Planned replacement date
Where complete data is not possible, please provide as much of the available data as possible.
Please see attached: FOI 0171
