Dear Sir or Madam,

Could I obtain the number of people who were diagnosed with febrile
neutropenia and the number of deaths due to febrile neutropenia for
2008?

Yours faithfully,

Rob

[Subject only] FW: FOI Request

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Dear Sir

RE: Request for Information under the Freedom of Information Act
2000

Ref No: 174

I am writing to confirm that the PCT has now completed its search for the
information which you requested on 16/01/2009

The information requested is as follows:

Q Can I obtain the number of people who were diagnosed with
febrile neutropenia and the number of deaths due to febrile neutropenia
for 2008.

A Information is not routinely available as a dataset for us to
provide diagnosis figures, however there is some audit work in progress on
this topic but is may be

Some time before it is available.

Deaths account for only 11 over the last 2 years and data
confidentiality precludes us from being more specific.

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Yours sincerely

Donna Bamber

Programme Support Manager Clinical Governance

Jubilee House

Tel: 01772 645589

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