I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from your hospital trusts.
How many patients arrived in A&E as an emergency transfer from Kent’s private hospitals, for the following financial years 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14, and 2014-15?

Would it be possible to list which private hospitals the patients were transferred from for each of the financial years above?

Would it be possible to list some of the conditions that the patients were admitted with?
I have identified the following list of private hospitals in Kent:
1. KIMS Maidstone
2. Nuffield Health Tunbridge Wells
3. Spire Tunbridge Wells
4. Spire Alexandra Walderslade
5. BMI Somerfield Maidstone
6. BMI Chaucer Canterbury
7. BMI Fawkham Manor
8. BMI Sloane Beckenham
9. BMI Chelsfield Park Orpington
10. Spencer Ashford
11. Spencer Margate
12. Benenden

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