University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) completed a merger by acquisition of Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust (HEFT) on 1st April 2018. Due to historical differences in data collection/reporting across UHB and the former Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust this response has been provided by hospital site.
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
- Please could you confirm whether the hospital has had to purchase oversized mortuary fridges to better accommodate obese bodies since January 2014.
No.
- Please could you state the number of such fridges bought and installed for each calendar year: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 until the date of this request, please
No.
- Please could you detail if you have taken any other moves to accommodate larger bodies in the hospital mortuary.
Purchase of a Flexmort Bariatric cover cool system in February 2012.
Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull Hospital
- Please could you confirm whether the hospital has had to purchase oversized mortuary fridges to better accommodate obese bodies since January 2014.
Yes.
- Please could you state the number of such fridges bought and installed for each calendar year: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 until the date of this request, please?
2014 – 4
2016 – 10
- Please could you detail if you have taken any other moves to accommodate larger bodies in the hospital mortuary.
No.
