Friday 02 May 2025
Internal Reference Number: FOI_8402
Date Request Received: 24/01/2025 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 19/02/2025 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Hospital trust postage for patients
Request Category: Private Individuals
| Question Number 1: I would like you to send me the amount of money that your trust has spent on postage when communicating with or about patients in each of these financial years - For clarity communicating with patients would include (but not be limited to) notification of appointments, reminders, results of tests and so forth. Essentially any letters sent to them from the hospital or hospital trust. Communicating about patients would include (but not be limited to) letters to GPs about test results, treatments etc as well as referral letters to other treatment providers. I am happy to receive this information in any electronic format - preferably as a spreadsheet. I would like you to split out the data for each year, and further split it into letters to patients and letters about patients if that is possible. 2021-22 2022-23 2023-24 | |
| Answer To Question 1: The Trust does not record the spend on postage with patients separately from other postage incurred. The cost of electronic communication with patients was: 2021-22 £139k 2022-23 £174k 2023-24 £209k | |
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