Internal Reference Number: FOI_9348
Date Request Received: 16/04/2026 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 23/04/2026 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Outsourced letters
Request Category: Private Individuals
| Question Number 1: Please can you provide cost information on outsourced letter transcription for the last 3 years? | |
| Answer To Question 1: Outsourcing figure we have spent is £3000. - this was part of a pilot but is no longer being taken forward | |
| Question Number 2: Please can you provide the number of letters by month not meeting a turnaround time of 7 days for the last 3 years? | |
| Answer To Question 2: We have no report set up for this. There is no report that collates the time in BigHand and Lorenzo to give an accurate turn-around time/figure. BigHand does not produce a spreadsheet that can be interrogated so I can only give you the average information. Where we do not hit 7 days our average turnaround on BigHand only is: • 2024 - 12 days and 6,064 letters each month • 2025 - 16 days and 9478 letters each month • 2026 - 11 days and 8,871letters each month | |
| Question Number 3: Please can you provide the annual number of documents in backlog for the last 3 years? | |
| Answer To Question 3: The Trust only has backlog figures for the following dates - 2024 - 4,333 2025 - 5,748 There was no report going back from these dates | |
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