Monday 01 December 2025
Internal Reference Number: FOI_8880
Date Request Received: 01/09/2025 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 02/09/2025 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Supplier & Service of Patient Weighing Scales
Request Category: Private Individuals
| Question Number 1: Please can I request the following information for your Trust under the Freedom of Information Act please. Where information is unavailable or too difficult to obtain for one question please could you provide information for any other questions where the information is available: • The name of the supplier/s who service your weighing devices (baby scales, chair scales, floor scales, column scales, patient transfer scales, bench scales for example) | |
| Answer To Question 1: Marsden | |
| Question Number 2: • How many weighing devices are covered by this contract? A List of these devices stating make/model How many addresses are covered by this contract? | |
| Answer To Question 2: See attachment – only one site. To accompany this answer to question 2 please also see the documents listed below:  FOI 8880.pdf | |
| Question Number 3: • What standard (or average) price per scale do you pay for servicing | |
| Answer To Question 3: £9.50 per scale | |
| Question Number 4: • The date that the servicing contract ends. | |
| Answer To Question 4: 31st January 2027 | |
| Question Number 5: • The value of total spend on weighing devices (split between patient weighing and other) excluding servicing in the last 3 calendar years split by year; split by each site/address | |
| Answer To Question 5: £15512.49 | |
| Question Number 6: • The value of that spend by weighing device supplier in the last 3 calendar years split by year. | |
| Answer To Question 6: 2025 - £5627.42 2024 - £5890.57 2023 - £3994.50 | |
| Question Number 7: • Do you have any weighing devices integrated directly or indirectly to an electronic patient records system (EPR)? | |
| Answer To Question 7: No | |
| Question Number 8: • Which electronic patient records system do you use/plan to use? | |
| Answer To Question 8: Oracle / Cerner | |
| Question Number 9: • If you haven’t done so already, do you intend to integrate weighing scales to an EPR in the next 12-24 months? | |
| Answer To Question 9: Yes | |
| Question Number 10: • Do you use Welch Allen Vital signs monitors in the Trust, if so, how many and are any of these connected to weighing devices? | |
| Answer To Question 10: No | |
| Question Number 11: • How many suppliers were invited to tender/were considered for your current contract | |
| Answer To Question 11: Tender submitted through Lifecycle so National tender | |
| Question Number 12: • What was the decision criteria with regard to the current contract including any weighting | |
| Answer To Question 12: No – only value | |
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