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FOI 5688 Pharmacy Transformation Plan

Published: December 14, 2017

1. Does Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust have a Hospital Pharmacy Transformation Plan? 2. Can Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust provide me with a copy of its Hospital Pharmacy Transformation Plan document? This information is available on the Trust’s website at https://hgs.uhb.nhs.uk/foi-5628-hospital-pharmacy-transformation/ . We are therefore withholding this information under Section 21 of the […]

FOI 5583 Treatment of Headaches and Chronic Migraines

Published: November 23, 2017

I am writing to you today to request information regarding the treatment of Headaches and Chronic Migraines. 1. Could you please provide me with the following numbers of patients treated in the last 6 months, with the following drugs for Chronic Migraine. If none, please state None. a) Botox b) Dysport c) Xeomin None. 2. […]

FOI 5598 Virtual Fracture Clinic

Published: November 16, 2017

1. Do you currently have a ‘virtual fracture clinic’ / ‘virtual triage clinic’ / alternative to a traditional face to face appointment? We currently do not have this as a process. This is a process we are looking to introduce into selected pathways in the future. 2. If so what is it called and when […]

FOI 5587 Maternity

Published: November 16, 2017

For each of your hospitals which has a maternity unit, please detail separately for the years 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 (to date): 1. On how many occasions did the maternity unit temporarily close (defined as a period during which women in labour would not have been admitted to the unit)? 2. On each […]

FOI 5622 IVF Services

Published: November 15, 2017

1. Does the authority offer IVF services? No   2. Does it have its own embryology lab, or is it a satellite of another service (if so which) Not Applicable   3. How many cycles of IVF has the authority provided in each of the financial years: (a) 2014/15 – Not Applicable (b) 2015/16 – […]

FOI 5544 Winter Plan

Published: November 9, 2017

Winter Plan  How many extra beds will the trust need this winter to meet demand? How does this differ to the numbers for the previous winter (2016-17)? The Trust has identified the potential need to open up to an additional 36 flex beds across all sites over the winter period. How many extra staff will […]

FOI 5549 Sterilisation for Dental Clinics

Published: November 7, 2017

I am seeking information on the sterilisation costs of dental instruments in the NHS dental hospitals and clinics. Specifically: The cost of individual cassettes of instruments, how many instruments/tray and how many times/day sterilisation needs to occur. The Trust has outsourced the contract for the decontamination of surgical instruments to B Braun Sterilog. Although the […]

FOI 5474 Waiting times

Published: September 19, 2017

Do you currently have a strategy in place to reduce waiting times between arrival and being seen, for outpatients having elective treatment/surgery? No How are you measuring its implementation? There is no implementation to measure What maximum waiting room time targets do you have in place? None as above How have you performed against those […]

FOI 5484 Languages for patients

Published: September 11, 2017

I would like to request that the following questions be answered, or documents containing the answers to the following questions, for the last year/12 months held: What are the recorded preferential languages for patients requiring services ranging from most to least? Mirpuri (spoken dialect), Sylheti (spoken dialect), British Sign Language, Romanian , Arabic, Punjabi, Urdu, Pashto, Polish, Somali, French, Kurdish, […]

FOI 5277 Epilepsy

Published: July 3, 2017

Seizure freedom project – Freedom of Information request questions Q1 Please provide the name of your Trust Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust Q2 What type of adult epilepsy service do you provide? Hospital outpatient clinic Q3 Where do you provide your adult epilepsy clinics? Please list the clinic location postcodes: On the three sites: […]

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