Freedom of Information Request: FOI 0484 2019/20
I would like to request some information from your Trust under the FOI act relating to VTE risk assessment.
Each month your trust reports VTE risk assessment compliance, please could you specify the time frame from admission that this applies e.g. VTE risk assessment completion within 12 hours of admission.
The VTE risk assessment should be completed as soon as possible after admission to hospital or by the time of the first consultant review and within 24 hours of admission
Please provide a breakdown of VTE risk assessment compliance for the last 12 months. Where compliance is <95% please provide information relating to the factors affecting performance and mitigations in place to recover the position.
Overall Trust (UHB) performance for Quarter 1 (April-June) 2019/20 was 98.5%. Overall Trust (UHB) performance for the period August 2018 – July 2019 was 98.3%. Figures for August 2019 onwards have not yet been compiled.
Does your Trust have a Thrombosis Committee or similar whereby VTE risk assessment is monitored alongside hospital acquired thrombosis. If you do please could you provide a copy of the meetings terms of reference and the minutes of the last meeting.
Please see attached documents.
Please be advised that we have redacted personal information from the minutes of the meeting. The Trust does hold this information, however, to disclose it could potentially lead to identification of the individual(s) the information relates to. We are therefore withholding this information under section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act.
Mins thrombosis UHB September 2019 Redacted
