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Re: Freedom of Information Request (Our Ref: FOI-009172)

This document is a response to a Freedom of Information request regarding the costs of independent investigations conducted by NHS England. It provides the following information: 1) The total cost of the 19 independent investigations commissioned by NHS England between 2013-2015 was £543,555. 2) The range of costs for these investigations was between £22,000-£74,215. 3) The average cost per investigation was £28,608.16. NHS England's budget for independent investigations for 2015/2016 was £1,000,000, based on an assumed average cost of £33,000 per investigation.

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Re: Freedom of Information Request (Our Ref: FOI-009172)

This document is a response to a Freedom of Information request regarding the costs of independent investigations conducted by NHS England. It provides the following information: 1) The total cost of the 19 independent investigations commissioned by NHS England between 2013-2015 was £543,555. 2) The range of costs for these investigations was between £22,000-£74,215. 3) The average cost per investigation was £28,608.16. NHS England's budget for independent investigations for 2015/2016 was £1,000,000, based on an assumed average cost of £33,000 per investigation.

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From: "FOI England (NHS ENGLAND)" <[Link]@nhs.

net>
Subject: Freedom of Information request (Our Ref: FOI009172)
Date: 15 December 2015 at [Link] GMT
To: "minhalexander@[Link]" <minhalexander@[Link]>

Dear Dr Alexander,

Re:
Freedom of Information request (Our Ref: FOI009172)

Thank you for your Freedom of Information (FOI) request
dated 20 November 2015.

Your exact request was:-

1) the total cost of all the published independent
investigations

2) the range of costs, in terms of the greatest and the smallest
cost

3) the average cost of these investigations

In a separate email of the same date you also asked NHS
England:

May I ask where in NHS Englands accounts does the cost of
these independent investigations feature, presuming that NHS
England declares these costs?

I could not find any data on the cost of independent
investigations on the NHS England list of spending over 25K:
[Link]

NHS England holds some of this information. For your
convenience we have responded to each of your numbered
questions in turn below.

1) Of the 60 Independent Investigation reports published on


NHS Englands website, 41 were commissioned by former
Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs). NHS England does not
hold the financial information associated with those cases.
The total costs of the remaining published 19 Independent
Investigations commissioned by NHS England for the period
2013 2015 is 543,555.00

2) The range of costs for these Investigations is 22,000
74,215. NHS England is unable to comment on what costs
within this range are associated with specific cases.

3) The average cost of the 19 published Independent
Investigations 2013 -2015 based on the total costings
provided above is 28,608.16. The national budget for
Independent Investigations for 2015/2016 is 1,000,000. This
is based on an assumed average cost of 33,000 per
investigation.

The budget for Independent Investigations is part of an
ongoing Directorate work programme budget and therefore
Independent Investigation costs do not feature in the list of
spending over 25,000.

Copyright:- NHS England operates under the terms of the
open government licence. Please see the NHS England
Terms and conditions on the following link
[Link]

I hope this information is helpful. However, if you are
dissatisfied, you have the right to ask for an internal review by
writing to us, within two months of the date of this letter, to:

NHS England
PO Box 16738
REDDITCH
B97 9PT

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