Freedom of Information Request: 0868

In your financial accounts for the financial year 2017/18 did you have a section for “losses and special payments?

Yes.

• If so how much money was accounted for in the 2017/2018 financial year as being “losses and special payments”? (Please note l am aware that the loss may have occurred many years earlier but I am interested in items which were accounted for in the last financial year, irrespective or when the loss took place.)
• £1,455,482.69

• Please detail the three largest single amounts within this total, giving a cost for each loss and a detailed description of the claim and the reason for the loss.

– Overseas private patient write off: £276,789.54
– Overseas private patient write off: £143,144.14
– Overseas private patient write off: £105,135.38

• What was the biggest loss written off in 2017/18 (regardless of when the debt was accumulated) that related to an unpaid patient bill? Please state the total amount of this written off debt, the nationality of the patient and the department of the hospital the majority where the majority of the bill was incurred.

Largest loss written off in 2017/18 regarding an unpaid patient bill was per point 2 above, overseas private patient write off £276,789.54.

The Trust does hold the other information you have requested regarding this debt write off, however releasing it could lead to the individual being identified. We are therefore withholding this information under section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act.