University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) completed a merger by acquisition of Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust (HEFT) on 1st April 2018. UHB includes Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Solihull Hospital and Community Services, Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield and Birmingham Chest Clinic.
Due to historical differences in data collection/reporting across UHB and the former Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust some responses have been provided by hospital site.
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
I would like to request the following information under the freedom of information act:
1. How many stress echocardiograms were performed in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017?
2014: 377
2015: 307
2016: 463
2017: 407
2. Would it be possible to get this information per hospital?
Please refer to the information detailed above. For your information, there is only one site at Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
3. What is the reimbursement amount for a stress echocardiogram?
The tariff below is dependent on whether the patient has underlying Congenital Heart Disease and the point of delivery. This is based on a length of stay of 5 days or less, after this the per day long stay payments apply:
4. How many transthoracic echocardiograms were performed in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017?
2014: 16,965
2015: 18,161
2016: 19,316
2017: 19,744
5. Would it be possible to get this information per hospital?
Please refer to the information detailed above. For your information, there is only one site at Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
6. What is the reimbursement amount for a transthoracic echocardiogram?
7. How many contrast echocardiograms were performed in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017?
2014: 52
2015: 49
2016: 49
2017: 50
8. Would it be possible to get this information per hospital?
Please refer to the information detailed above. For your information, there is only one site at Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
9. What is the reimbursement amount for a contrast echocardiogram?
10. How many pacemaker optimisations were performed in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017?
2014: 1,371
2015: 1,460
2016: 1,471
2017: 1,470
11. Would it be possible to get this information per hospital?
Please refer to the information detailed above. For your information, there is only one site at Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
12. What is the reimbursement amount for a pacemaker optimisation?
The tariff below is dependent on the point of delivery. This is based on a Length of stay of 5 days or less, after this the per day long stay payments apply:
Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull Hospital
I would like to request the following information under the freedom of information act:
1. How many stress echocardiograms were performed in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017?
2. Would it be possible to get this information per hospital?
Please see above.
3. What is the reimbursement amount for a stress echocardiogram?
£129 per test
4. How many transthoracic echocardiograms were performed in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017?
5. Would it be possible to get this information per hospital?
Please see above.
6. What is the reimbursement amount for a transthoracic echocardiogram?
7. How many contrast echocardiogram were performed in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017
8. Would it be possible to get this information per hospital?
Please see above.
9. What is the reimbursement amount for a contrast echocardiogram?
10. How many pacemaker optimisations were performed in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017?
Following numbers for CRT and CRT with defibrillator:
2014 – CRT 371 & CRTD 423
2015 – CRT 550 & CRTD 570
2016 – CRT 467 & CRTD 973
2017 – CRT 430 & CRTD 1079
11. Would it be possible to get this information per hospital?
Please see above.
12. What is the reimbursement amount for a pacemaker optimisation?
