FOI – 2024-000188 Disposable and washable continence care and associated products (HTML)

Date received – 07 May 2024 | Date responded – 04 June 2024

Request

Under the freedom of information act please kindly provide information on Disposable and Washable Continence Care and Associated Products supplied to NHS Scotland.

Please include the NPC code, Description of the product, Unit of issue, quantities, eaches, brand name and supplier name.

Please provide the number of products supplied for each month for the last 3 years (2022,2023,2024 Financial Year) and the average cost per item in an excel spreadsheet.

Response

I refer to your freedom of information request that we received on 07 May 2024 requesting the following information:

Under the freedom of information act please kindly provide information on Disposable and Washable Continence Care and Associated Products supplied to NHS Scotland.

Please include the NPC code, Description of the product, Unit of issue, quantities, eaches, brand name and supplier name.

Please provide the number of products supplied for each month for the last 3 years (2022,2023,2024 Financial Year) and the average cost per item in an excel spreadsheet.

We have now completed the search of our records and can provide you with the following information:

Under Section 33 (1) (b) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - an organisation does not require to provide information if its disclosure under this Act would, or would be likely to, prejudice substantially the commercial interests of any person (including, without prejudice to that generality, a Scottish public authority) and as such information relating to cost per item is being withheld as it is commercially sensitive.

Please find attached Appendix 1 - Disposable and Washable Continence Care and Associated Products, detailing the requested information. Note, the attached Appendix is for products sold to NHS Acute sites only. This does not include sales to Care Homes and Patients Own homes, this information can be requested from each individual health board at the following addresses:

• Ayrshire and Arran - foi@aapct.scot.nhs.uk
• Borders – foi.enquiries@borders.scot.nhs.uk
• Dumfries and Galloway – dg.feedback2@nhs.scot
• Fife – fife.foirequestfife@nhs.scot
• Forth Valley – fv.freedomofinformation@nhs.scot
• Grampian – gram.foi@nhs.scot
• Greater Glasgow & Clyde – foi@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
• Highland – nhsh.foirequestshighland@nhs.scot
• Lanarkshire – foi@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
• Lothian – foi@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk
• Orkney – ORK.FOIrequests@nhs.scot
• Shetland – shet.foi@nhs.scot
• Tayside – tay.informationgovernance@nhs.scot
• Western Isles – wi.foi-requests@nhs.scot
• NHS24 – foi@nhs24.scot.nhs.uk
• NHS National Waiting Times Centre – FOI@gjnh.scot.nhs.uk
• Scottish Ambulance Service – sas.foi@nhs.scot
• Healthcare improvement Scotland - his.foi@nhs.scot
• Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland - mwc.enquiries@nhs.scot
• NHS Education for Scotland - foidp@nes.scot.nhs.uk
• Public Health Scotland - PHS.FOI@phs.scot
• State Hospital Board for Scotland - tsh.info@nhs.scot

I trust you will find the information of assistance and if you require any further information, please do not hesitate to contact us.

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