Please answer the following questions in relation to online sexual health services:
1. Does the authority commission or procure these services?
Yes, but they are commissioned and delivered as part of an integrated sexual health service, not in isolation.
2. In each of the financial periods 2021-22, 2022-23, April 2023 to December 2023:
a. How much did the authority spend overall on sexual health testing services?
Devon County Council (DCC) do not identify spend on “testing” separately.
The total spend on “STI testing and treatment” is made available as part of the individual Local Authority General Fund Revenue Account Outturn RO3 – Social Care and Public Health Services. Data for both 2021/22 and 2022/23 can be found here: Local authority revenue expenditure and financing.
Provisional data for April to December 2023 suggests like-for-like spend on STI testing and treatment of £2,853,504 but final figures will be published in due course.
b. How much did the authority spend on online services?
DCC do not hold this information as online services are part of an integrated service.
c. How many citizens were tested using online services?
DCC do not hold this information as online services are part of an integrated service.
3. How much was spent (by the authority or predecessor organisations) in each period with each of the following providers for online sexual health services?
a. Preventx.
b. SH 24.
c. TDL or their NHS joint venture, Health Service Laboratories.
d. Viapath.
e. Synlab or their joint venture, Synnovis.
f. Lloyd’s pharmacy.
g. NHS Trusts/ their laboratory services.
h. Other. Please name any provider where the spend in any year exceeded £100,000.
In the periods 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2023/24 (April to December) the only organisation to receive funding specifically for the provision of online sexual health services will have been the provider of our integrated sexual and reproductive health services, the Royal Devon University Hospital Trust. The contract was awarded to Northern Devon Health Care Trust (NDHT) who have since merged with the Royal Devon and Exeter (RDE) to become the Royal Devon University Hospital Trust. Information on the estimated total value at the time of the contract being awarded can be found at the following link Contract details (due-north.com)
4. When did the authority last issue a tender for these services?
22/09/2017.
5. When does the current contract expire?
2025.