Request

I would be grateful if you could provide the following information under freedom of information law:

Q1.The number of patients ordinarily resident in Scotland who have undergone treatment at overseas hospitals under the s2 scheme.

Q2. The number of patients ordinarily resident in Scotland who have undergone treatment for a hip replacement at overseas hospitals under the S2 scheme.

Q3. The number of patients from overseas who have undergone treatment at Scottish hospitals under the S2 scheme.

Q4. The number of patients from overseas who have undergone treatment for a hip replacement in Scottish hospitals under the S2 scheme.

Please break this information down by year from 2020.

Response

Question 1

Please see the attached document.

Please note:

• The results are based on customer residence in Scotland at time of treatment or S2 application, the year treatment took place and a financial claim for the treatment covered by the S2 being received from the member state or customer.

• Treatment covers planned treatment and giving birth.

• If a treatment spans more than one year it is recorded against the year it started.

• There is no deadline by which member states may submit claims. Treatment may have taken place under the S2 scheme, but no claim has been received to date. In this case the treatment is not included in the data above.

• If a customer had more than one treatment under the S2 scheme they will be recorded separately.

Question 3

Please see the attached document.

Please note:

• Births are not included in these results as EU Member States do not issue maternity S2s.

• The data is based on planned treatments advised to the NHSBSA to date by Health Boards in Scotland.

Question 2 and 4

I am writing to advise you that following a search of our paper and electronic records, I have established that the information you requested is not held by the NHS Business Services Authority.

However it is possible that NHS Inform may hold some or all of the information you require. They can be contacted at:

Web form: https://www.nhs24.scot/foioverview

Email: foi@nhs24.scot.nhs.uk

Information Governance

NHS 24 Headquarters

Caledonia House

Fifty Pitches Road Cardonald Park

Glasgow

G51 4EB

Please note that this request and our response is published on our Freedom of Information disclosure log at:

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-01451

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