Civic Centre Arnot Hill Park Arnold Nottingham NG5 6LU Direct Dial: 0115 8831838 Email: [email protected] Date: 4th December 2017

Dear Requestor,

RE: Freedom of Information Request NNE/17/1566

With reference to your request for information I can confirm in accordance with Section 1 (1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 that we do hold the information that you have requested. A response to your request is outlined below on behalf of NHS Nottingham North and East Clinical Commissioning Group.

In your request you asked:

1. Who provides your current Wheelchair Service? NHS a. Is your provider an NHS organisation or a contracted-out, non-NHS organisation? NHS b. What is the name of your current provider? Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust c. What is the name of the Wheelchair Service Manager? Sue Briscoe

2. How your wheelchair services are provided a. Do you combine your Wheelchair Service with any other service, such as Prosthetics or Community Equipment? If so, please provide a list of the other services.

Nottingham North & East CCG does not hold this information, please contact the Provider directly. This can be done at https://www.nuh.nhs.uk/about-us/freedom-of-information/ b. Is your Wheelchair Service exclusive to your CCG? No c. If you service is combined with another please provide a list of the CCGs that share this Wheelchair Service and confirm who is the lead CCG?

 Commissioning Consortia is: - NHS Lincolnshire east CCG, NHS east Leicestershire and Rutland CCG, NHS Erewash CCG, NHS Hardwick CCG, NHS Lincolnshire west CCG, NHS Mansfield and Ashfield CCG, NHS Newark & Sherwood CCG, NHS north Derbyshire CCG, NHS Nottingham city CCG, NHS Nottingham north and east CCG, NHS Nottingham

West CCG, NHS Rushcliffe CCG, NHS south west Lincolnshire CCG, NHS southern Derbyshire CCG, NHS south Lincolnshire CCG.  Lead Commissioner is NHS Nottingham North & East CCG d. Is the Repair and Maintenance element of the service “integrated” or contracted out to a 3rd party Approved Repairer?

Nottingham North & East CCG does not hold this information, please contact the Provider directly. e. If you have an externally provided Approved Repairer, what is the name of your current provider?

Nottingham North & East CCG does not hold this information, please contact the Provider directly.

3. About your wheelchair service a. What is the size of the population covered by your Wheelchair Service?

This information is available in our annual report on Page 8: http://www.nottinghamnortheastccg.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Annual-Report-16- 17.pdf b. How many registered service users are served by the Wheelchair Service?

Nottingham North & East CCG does not hold this information, please contact the Provider directly.

4. About the Integrated (Combined service and Repair & Maintenance) contract with your provider a. What is the contract spend in the last financial year for the Integrated Wheelchair Service?

2016-17 CCG Spend

NHS Nottingham north and east £37,017 CCG

b. Please state the dates of your last financial year: 01/04/2016 to 31/03/2017 c. When was the Integrated Wheelchair Service last tendered?

NHS Trust contract (not tendered) d. When does the current contract expire please provide details of any potential contract extension? 31/03/2019 where the contract will be rolled-over. e. Please provide the date this Wheelchair Service will be next tendered N/A

5. About the Repair and Maintenance (R&M) sub-contract with your wheelchair provider (where appropriate)

Nottingham North & East CCG does not hold any information for Q5, please contact the Provider directly. a. What is the contract spend in the last financial year for the R&M Wheelchair Service? b. Please state the dates of your last financial year. c. When was the R&M Wheelchair Service last tendered? d. When does the current R&M sub-contract expire please provide details of any potential contract extension e. Please provide the date that R&M Wheelchair Service sub-contract will be next tendered

Should you have any further enquiries or queries about this response please do not hesitate to contact me. However, if you are unhappy with the way in which your request has been handled, you have the right to ask for an internal review. Internal review requests should be submitted within two months of the date of receipt of the response to your original letter and should be addressed to:

Freedom of Information Officer Nottingham North & East CCG Civic Centre Arnot Hill Park Arnold Nottingham NG5 6LU

If you are dissatisfied with the outcome of the complaints procedure, you can apply to the Information Commissioner’s Office, who will consider whether the organisation has complied with its obligations under the Act, and can require the organisation to remedy any problems. Generally, the ICO cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the complaints procedure provided by the CCG. You can find out more about how to do this, and about the Act in general, on the Information Commissioner’s Office website at: https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/

Complaints to the Information Commissioner’s Office should be sent to: FOI/EIR Complaints Resolution, Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF telephone 0845 630 6060, email [email protected] Yours sincerely

Freedom of information Officer [email protected] Direct Line: 0115 8831838 Nottingham North and East Clinical Commissioning Group Civic Centre, Arnot Hill Park, Arnold, Nottingham NG5 6LU www.nottinghamnortheastccg.nhs.uk

All information we have provided is subject to the provisions of the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2015. Accordingly, if the information has been made available for re-use under the Open Government Licence (OGL) a request to re-use is not required, but the licence conditions must be met. You must not re-use any previously unreleased information without having the consent from NHS Nottingham North & East CCG. Should you wish to re-use previously unreleased information then you must make your request in writing (email will suffice) to the FOI Lead via [email protected]. All requests for re-use will be responded to within 20 working days of receipt.