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Translation & Voice Recognition Software 2022/23 to 2024/25 to date

Reference: 24-25476

Date response sent: 06/02/2025

Details of enquiry

  1. Total expenditure on outsourced transcription services (including third-party providers and digital dictation/transcription software).
  2. Total expenditure on in-house/on-premises medical secretaries whose primary role includes transcription and documentation.

If possible, a breakdown of costs by year and/or service provider.

Response sent

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a small specialist outpatient mental health Trust, with a focus on training and education, and is not a hospital.

We provide outpatient, and mainly psychological services via talking therapies. We do not provide acute services, nor inpatient patient services, and do not have an A&E department.

Your request for information is not entirely applicable to our Trust as we do not employ medical secretaries nor outsource transcription services to which this information would apply.

 

  1. Total expenditure on outsourced transcription services (including third-party providers and digital dictation/transcription software).

The Trust does not outsource transcription services.

We do not hold the expenditure data for Digital dictation/transcription software spend for financial year 2022/23, as prior to July 2023 this was not centrally purchased, and departments  purchased this software for themselves..

Total Expenditure since July 2023 was

2023/24   £8,543.29

2024/25   £2,626.30

  1. Total expenditure on in-house/on-premises medical secretaries whose primary role includes transcription and documentation.

Not applicable.  The Trust does not employ medical secretaries.

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