Information Governance
NHS Forth Valley
CSD, Colquhoun Street
Stirling
FK7 7PX
Telephone 01786 433282
Fax
www.show.scot.nhs.uk/nhsfv
Date: 11 May 2009
Our Ref:
FOI 2214/Review2325
Your Ref:
Enquiries to: Deirdre Coyle
Extension: 3286
Direct Line: 01786 433286
Fax:
Email:
[email address]
Dear Mr Clark,
Request for Review under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002
I write in response to your email requesting a review under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act
2002 the following:
“I am requesting an internal review of the following request: Could I obtain the number of people who
were diagnosed with chemotherapy-induced febrile neutropenia and the number of deaths due to
chemotherapy-induced febrile neutropenia in 2008?”
This request was received outside the 40 day time limit for review, however, NHS Forth Valley is
happy to provide a response to your enquiry.
I have reviewed your request and can confirm the following, while it is the case that the exemption for
excessive costs be can be applied here.
I find that this information is reasonably obtainable from elsewhere and apply the exemption under
Section 25 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act – otherwise accessible.
This information is available on a Scotland wide basis via Scottish Morbidity Records which are held
by ISD Scotland and may be requested directly via the Freedom of Information Officer – Gyle Square,
1 South Gyle, Edinburgh, EH12 9EB. However, to assist I have provided the information as follows:-
Diagnoses are recorded using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD10). Neutropenia
belongs to the classification D70, this grouping includes drug induced but this grouping does not
uniquely identify chemotherapy-induced febrile neutropenia.
1. Total number admitted with diagnosis code D70 = 13
2. Total number of patients admitted who died with diagnosis code D70 = less than 3
(
Source of information SMR01 data set)
D70 - Agranulocytosis to include:
Chairman Ian Mullen OBE BSc MRPharmS DL
Chief Executive Fiona Mackenzie MA(Hons) MBA MIHM DipHSM
Forth Valley NHS Board is the common name for Forth Valley Health Board
Registered Office: Carseview House, Castle Business Park, Stirling FK9 4SW
www.nhsforthvalley.com
• Agranulocytic angina
Infantile genetic agranulocytosis
Kostmann's disease
Neutropenia:
· NOS
· congenital
· cyclic
· drug-induced
· periodic
· splenic (primary)
· toxic
Neutropenic splenomegaly
Information on deaths from chemotherapy-induced febrile neutropenia is available on a Scotland wide
from the General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) they compile information on deaths. The
website for GROS is www.gro-scotland.gov.uk which may be of assistance to you.
Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you require any further assistance.
If you are unhappy with the results of this review you can make an appeal to the Scottish Information
Commissioner at the following address :-
Scottish Information Commissioner,
Kinburn Castle,
Doubledykes Road,
St Andrews, Fife
KY16 9DS
Telephone: 01334 464610
Fax: 01334 464611
e-mail:
[email address]
Yours sincerely
Deirdre Coyle
Head of Information Governance
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