FOI_8428

Internal Reference Number: FOI_8428

Date Request Received: 05/02/2025 00:00:00

Date Request Replied To: 26/03/2025 00:00:00

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Request Summary: Elective surgery costs

Request Category: Private Individuals


Question Number 1: Please could you state how many patients were treated by your Trust in the last financial year (23/24) who were patients that should have paid for their treatment because they were not entitled to free NHS hospital care?

Answer To Question 1: In response to this question, please note that we have taken the request to mean any individual defined as an overseas visitor in charging category D and F only, as defined by the National Health Services (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2015. Please note that we have excluded maternity patients, which are not recorded as either elective nor emergency, private patients and co-pay patients. We have also not included patients seen and treated in our Emergency Department only as these are not chargeable. Answer: 32

Question Number 2: How many of these patients who should have paid for their treatment had (i) elective treatment and (ii) non-elective treatment?

Answer To Question 2: Emergency: = 30 Elective: = 2

Question Number 3: Of those patients who were billed for treatment how many were (i) for elective treatment and the bill is still wholly or partly outstanding and what is their cumulative value (the unpaid balance) in total and (ii) how many were for non-elective treatment and the bill is still wholly or partly outstanding what is their cumulative value (the unpaid balance) in total?

Answer To Question 3: Emergency: 9 - £165044 Elective: = 2 - £17965

Question Number 4: Please provide a nationality breakdown of the patients who have unpaid bills against them for treatment in 23/24 showing the number of patients from each country.

Answer To Question 4: Bangladesh =/<5 Ghana =/<5 USA =/<5 Unknown =/<5 Fiji =/<5 Mexico =/<5 Nigeria =/<5 Nepal =/<5 Cambodia =/<5 UK =/<5

Question Number 5: Please state the amount of the largest unpaid bill for a chargeable patient for (i) elective and (ii) non-elective treatment in the last financial year (2023/24), giving the amount that is due, the speciality or specialities involved in treating those patients, and the patients’ country of residence

Answer To Question 5: Emergency: £87042 – Cambodia Elective: £15741 – UK

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