Histology Reporting

Response to this request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust should have responded by now (details). You can complain by requesting an internal review.

Dear Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust,

1.How many histology slides and or cases (please state whether the number given is slides or cases or both) were reported by consultant histopathologists for patients treated by the trust. If exact numbers are not available, an estimate to within 5% is acceptable, but please state whether exact numbers or estimates are given. (cytology should be excluded)

2.Of these slides/ cases how many were reported by:
a.Consultants employed by the trust working in their normal NHS programmed activity sessions
b.Consultants employed by the trust being paid for additional sessions
c.Consultants employed by the trust being paid an amount per slide or case for activity outside their contracted programmed activities
d.Consultants employed by other trusts, where the trust contracts with these consultants or their trust
e.Backlogs Limited
f.Unilabs
g.Source Bioscience
h.Cellular Pathology Services Limited
i.Other private histology providers (please specify which)

3.How much was spent in 2016/17 with each of the following in relation to the reporting of histology slides/ cases a.Consultants employed by the trust being paid for additional sessions
b.Consultants employed by the trust being paid an amount per slide or case for activity outside their contracted programmed activities
c.Consultants employed by other trusts, where the trust contracts with these consultants or their trust
d.Backlogs Limited
e.Unilabs
f.Source Bioscience
g.Cellular Pathology Services Limited
h.Other private histology providers (please specify which)

Yours faithfully,

K Hart

FOI (ROYAL DEVON AND EXETER NHS FOUNDATION TRUST), Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am writing further to your Freedom of Information request.

I will now proceed to verify if the Trust holds this information and if it is releasable. Under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act, the Trust is required to provide you with a response to your request by the 1st September 2017. However, I will endeavour to process your request as quickly as possible.

If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact me.

Kind regards

Information Governance Office
Room Q109
Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Barrack Road, Exeter, EX2 5DW

Tel: 01392 406229
FOI email address: [email address]

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