Can you please provide me with the following information relating to Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust.
This request relates specifically to water hygiene and the measures taken to prevent infection from waterborne pathogens.
Can you please advise the number of point-of-use filters used per annum by the Trust to prevent waterborne bacteria exiting the water system.
Ideally a breakdown giving the number of filters used in 2014, 2015 and 2016. However if only approximate annual usage figures are available then that will be adequate for our purposes.
We do not use any point-of-use-filters at Good Hope or Solihull Hospitals, we use a copper-silver ionization system to prevent waterborne bacteria.
At Heartlands Hospital we only use point of use water filters on the mobile Endoscopy Unit because it contains flexible hoses.
The number of filters used is as follows;
- 2014 – None
- 2015 – 90
- 2016 – 234
