University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) completed a merger by acquisition of Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust (HEFT) on 1^st 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.

Due to historical differences in data collection/reporting across UHB and the former Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust some responses have been provided by hospital site.

I am writing to you with a freedom of information request.

Please could you provide me with information about your organisation’s ICT expenditure as detailed in the attached template.

I have tried to find this information in your organisation’s published data, but was unable to find the level detail I require.

I fully expect that you may not be able to provide all the information I am looking for. If this is the case, please provide me with as much information as you can within the template. For example: you may be able to sub-totals for some categories, or provide information for only for certain years.

Within the response, please include:

– Expenditure from all parts of your organisation (centralised IT and departmental IT);

– As well as your own organisation, expenditure for any subsidiary organisations that fall within the scope of your accounts; and,

– Both revenue (or operating) expenditure and capital expenditure.

Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Please see attached FOI 0314 QEHB

Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull Hospital

Please see attached FOI 0314 HGS