NHS Board Waverley Gate 2-4 Waterloo Place EH1 3EG

Telephone: 0131 536 9000 www.nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk

Date: 30/12/2019 Our Ref: 4089

Enquiries to : Bryony Pillath Extension: 35676 Direct Line: 0131 465 5676 [email protected]

Dear

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION – CATERING

I write in response to your request for information in relation to catering in NHS Lothian’s hospitals.

Question: 1. What is the average cost per day in pound sterling allocated to feed an inpatient with non-exceptional dietary requirements staying in each of your hospitals for the last 5 years? For year please use calendar year up to 2019. For ‘hospitals’ please include sites where patients stay overnight on a ward and please ignore any sites that are self catering.

Answer: Catering cost information is published for by the NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) Information Services Division (ISD) and can be found at the following weblinks:

For 2019: https://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Finance/Costs/File-Listings-2019.asp For previous years: https://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Finance/Costs/costs- archive.asp

Please click on the link, then download report R070-R110. Once the spreadsheet has opened look at tab R070. You can filter by health board; NHS Lothian is board code SSA20.

Question: 2. Please list the hospital and care sites in your trust and state whether the catering service is outsourced and if outsourced please give the name of the company or companies this is currently outsourced to and the date of the outsourcing to this company.

Answer:

NHS Lothian catering Hospital site Catering supplier Date of outsourcing Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Consort Healthcare 2002

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NHS Lothian catering Hospital site Catering supplier Date of outsourcing In house St John’s Hospital In house In house In house Royal Hospital for Sick Children In house Community Hospital In house Community Hospital In house Findlay House In house Ellensglen House Walker Timber 1999 Walker Timber 1996 Tippethill Care UK 2001 Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion In house

Question: 3. How many cases of listeriosis have been traced back to sandwiches that were given to inpatients in your trust in the last three years?

Answer: No cases of Listeriosis in NHS Lothian have been attributed to sandwiches provided by the board to patients in the period 2017 to 2019.

I hope the information provided helps with your request.

If you are unhappy with our response to your request, you do have the right to request us to review it. Your request should be made within 40 working days of receipt of this letter, and we will reply within 20 working days of receipt. If our decision is unchanged following a review and you remain dissatisfied with this, you then have the right to make a formal complaint to the Scottish Information Commissioner within 6 months of receipt of our review response. You can do this by using the Scottish Information Commissioner’s Office online appeals service at www.itspublicknowledge.info/Appeal. If you remain dissatisfied with the Commissioner’s response you then have the option to appeal to the Court of Session on a point of law.

If you require a review of our decision to be carried out, please write to the reviewer at the address at the top of this letter. The review will be undertaken by a Reviewer who was not involved in the original decision-making process.

FOI responses (subject to redaction of personal information) may appear on NHS Lothian’s Freedom of Information website at: http://www.nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk/YourRights/FOI/Pages/default.aspx

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4089 Catering December 2019

Yours sincerely

PROFESSOR ALEX MCMAHON Executive Director of Nursing Midwifery and AHPs Cc: Chief Executive

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