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Trust Use of Insourcing in FY 2024-25 & 2025/26

Reference: 25-26141

Date response sent: 02/07/2025

Details of enquiry

  1. Do you use insourcing providers?
    Note: Insourcing definition as per NHS SBS copied at the end of this email / form.
  2. If yes to the previous question (use of insourcing providers) what is the total value of spend, listed by speciality and insourcing provider, used for Apr-24-Mar-25?
Specialty (e.g. general surgery, ophthalmology etc) Insourcing provider (fill empty rows with provider name, add rows if required) Total spend (Apr-24-Mar-25)
     
  1. Please list below contracts with insourcing providers in the current financial year Apr-25-Mar-26
 Specialty (e.g. general surgery, ophthalmology etc) Insourcing provider (fill empty rows with provider name, add rows if required) Contract start date Contract end date (please leave blank if not set) Formal tender process conducted? Procurement framework used for award (for example, NHS SBS) Estimated contract value
             

 

What is insourcing? [NHS England SBS definition]

Insourcing is defined as the employment of a third-party organisation to perform medical services/procedures on trust premises. It differs to locum and agency staffing supply with the full end to end service being provided, not just staff.  The supplier uses the NHS organisation’s premises and equipment to deliver these services. Insourcing is largely focused on secondary care and the services are generally used out of hours when the premises/equipment is not being used by the NHS, thus making efficient use of the services.

Insourcing is designed to be results driven by utilising additional capacity provided by a supplier. This could be, for example, but not limited to, reducing patient waiting lists by a certain number over a given period or to triage a certain number of patients within a given period. Virtual patient appointments may also be undertaken by the insourced provider.

 

Response sent

The Trust confirms that it has not insourced any services. We have indicated this in your table below.

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a small specialist NHS mental health trust with a focus on training and education, as well as providing a full range of mental health services and therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.

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

Your request for information is not applicable to our Trust as we do not use insourcing to which this information would apply.

  1. Do you use insourcing providers?
    Note: Insourcing definition as per NHS SBS copied at the end of this email / form.

No

  1. If yes to the previous question (use of insourcing providers) what is the total value of spend, listed by specialty and insourcing provider, used for Apr-24-Mar-25?
Specialty (e.g. general surgery, ophthalmology etc) Insourcing provider (fill empty rows with provider name, add rows if required) Total spend (Apr-24-Mar-25)
Nil Nil Nil

 

  1. Please list below contracts with insourcing providers in the current financial year Apr-25-Mar-26
Specialty (e.g. general surgery, ophthalmology etc) Insourcing provider (fill empty rows with provider name, add rows if required) Contract start date Contract end date (please leave blank if not set) Formal tender process conducted? Procurement framework used for award (for example, NHS SBS) Estimated contract value
Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil

 

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