Iron Infusions and Patient Product Breakdown

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Dear University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust,

How many patients have received an iron infusion in the last 12 months?

How many patients have been treated with Monofer and how many with Ferinject?

What was the average weight of these patients?

How many patients required more than 1 gram of iron?

How many nurses and for what days and hours are your Iron infusion clinics available?

Yours faithfully,

Ed Fryer

Dear Team,

Please may I request a update with regards to this FOI as we are now passed the 20 day due date of the 2nd of March.
Request had been raised on the 3rd of February.

Yours sincerely,
Ed Fryer

FOI - Freedom of Information, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Dear Mr Fryer,

Thank you for your email - I am very sorry that due to an administrative error, your request of 3 February 2020 was not progressed. Please accept my apologies for this. The Trust will now progress your request as quickly as possible and aim to respond to you accordingly.

Yours sincerely,

Helen Stokes
Corporate and Committee Services Manager
Belgrave House, Leicester General Hospital site
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
Tel: 0116 258 8590

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FOI - Freedom of Information, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Corporate and Legal Affairs – Corporate and Committee Services

 

Our Reference: DP/FOI/43070

 

14 October 2020

 

Mr Ed Fryer

[FOI #641849 email]

 

Dear Mr Fryer

 

Request for Information

 

Thank you for your Freedom of Information Act (FOI) request, as received
on 3 February 2020 and acknowledged on 3 March 2020.  Please accept my
apologies for the long delay in responding to your request.  Unfortunately
your initial request was not acted upon when it arrived into the Trust’s
FOI inbox due to an administrative error.   It subsequently became further
delayed due to the unprecedented operational and clinical pressures facing
UHL in dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak, when the Trust had to
temporarily pause the progressing of FOI requests. However, the Trust
remains committed to openness and transparency and we are now in a
position to start responding to those FOI requests which were received
during and prior to that pause.  

 

For information, the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust is one of
the largest and busiest NHS teaching Trusts in the country.  We have over
15,000 staff working across our three hospitals, the Leicester Royal
Infirmary, Glenfield Hospital and Leicester General Hospital, serving
around 1.2 million people across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland,
and a further two to three million people from the rest of the UK who come
to us for treatment from one of our specialist services.  During 2018/19
we treated 1,466,500 patients – that’s 4,017 patients each day.

 

Following consultation with colleagues from each of the Trust’s Clinical
Management Groups, I confirm that the University Hospitals of Leicester
NHS Trust holds information covered by your FOI request.   In your Freedom
of Information Act request, you asked for the following information and
the Trust’s response is provided following your request below:-  

 

1.      How many patients have received an iron infusion in the last 12
months?

2.      How many patients have been treated with Monofer and how many with
Ferinject?

3.      What was the average weight of these patients?

4.      How many patients required more than 1 gram of iron?

5.      How many nurses and for what days and hours are your Iron infusion
clinics available?

 

Following consultation with colleagues from each of the Trust’s Clinical
Management Groups, I am advised that the information would be held within
the individual patient case notes, but the detailed information you are
seeking is not held in a readily accessible format.  I am further advised
that a manual review of one year’s worth of patient case notes would be
required to locate, collate and extract the data you are seeking.  Such a
manual process would significantly exceed the appropriate 18-hour limit
provided for under the Freedom of Information Act.  Consequently and in
reliance upon Section 12 of the FOI Act, the Trust will not be undertaking
this work.

 

However, under Section 16 of the FOI Act (the Trust’s duty to advise and
assist), and in response to question 2 (above), I am able to provide you
with the total quantity of iron infusion products dispensed within the
last 12 months:-

 

+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|VMP Quantity (ml) | Total|
|---------------------------------------------------------+--------------|
|Venofer 100mg/5ml solution for injection ampoules | 45,725|
|---------------------------------------------------------+--------------|
|Monofer 500mg/5ml solution for injection vials | 17,135|
|---------------------------------------------------------+--------------|
|Diafer 100mg/2ml solution for injection ampoules | 14,520|
|---------------------------------------------------------+--------------|
|Ferinject 500mg/10ml solution for injection vials | 10,420|
|---------------------------------------------------------+--------------|
|Monofer 100mg/1ml solution for injection vials | 558|
|---------------------------------------------------------+--------------|
|Ferinject 100mg/2ml solution for injection vials | 372|
|---------------------------------------------------------+--------------|
|Rienso 510mg/17ml solution for infusion vials | 306|
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+

 

 

I hope that this response is helpful and I am sorry that it does not
provide you with the information requested (where available). Once again,
I apologise for the delay in providing this response.  If you require any
further assistance please do not hesitate to contact me.  If you are
dissatisfied with the Trust’s response, you can contact the Director of
Corporate and Legal Affairs on Tel. No. 0116 258 8615 to request a copy of
UHL’s Freedom of Information Act complaints procedure.

 

We must advise you that where we have provided information we have done so
subject to the provisions of the Re-use of Public Sector Information
Regulations 2005.  Accordingly you must not re-use this information
without having the consent of the Trust.  Where the Trust is prepared to
provide its consent then it may levy a charge for doing so. Should you
wish to re-use documents provided then you must make your request in
writing stating your name and your address for correspondence together
with the document that you wish to re-use and the purpose for which the
information is to be re-used.

 

In the event that you remain dissatisfied with the way in which the Trust
has handled any complaint that you may wish to make, we would advise you
of your right to complain to the Information Commissioner at the
Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

 

Kate Rayns

Corporate and Committee Services Officer

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

 

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