Outpatient hysteroscopy/biopsy - Pain Control and Patient Choice

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Katharine Tylko-Hill

Dear Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust,

Under the FOIA (2000) please would you supply the following information relating to your Trust’s (and its outsourced services’) practice of OUTPATIENT HYSTEROSCOPY/BIOPSY – PAIN CONTROL AND PATIENT CHOICE

1. The patient information leaflet/s
2. The consent form/s
3. For each of the last 3 financial years:
i. all audits of OP hysteroscopy adverse events, (including infection, perforation, pain equal to or above 7/10 on VAS)
ii. all surveys of patients’ outpatient hysteroscopy experiences. Are all your patients allowed to complete the satisfaction survey at home? Y/N
iii. the number of your patients who had a) GA, b) spinal anaesthesia, c) monitored procedural IV sedation, d) local anaesthetic, e) no anaesthetic
iv. the % of your a) diagnostic hysteroscopies, b) operative hysteroscopies that were done in outpatients. Did your Trust meet the Best Practice Target % Tariff for each of these years? Y/N
4. i. Is local anaesthetic available in all your outpatient hysteroscopy clinics? Y/N
ii. Is Entonox available in all your outpatient hysteroscopy clinics? Y/N
5. Are all your hysteroscopy patients (including See & Treat/One Stop Shop/Late Cancellations) offered i. local anaesthetic? Y/N
ii. GA? Y/N
iii. spinal anaesthesia? Y/N
iv. safely monitored IV sedation? Y/N
6. Do you use electro-surgery in any of your outpatients clinics? Y/N If so, do you always use the lowest power setting? Y/N
7. What type and diameter of scopes do you use in a) outpatients, b) for GA patients? Rigid, semi-rigid, flexible?
8. What is the minimum training and accreditation (e.g. RCOG ATSM) that all your NEW hysteroscopists must have?
9. What % diagnostic outpatient hysteroscopy/biopsy patients had an incomplete procedure which was repeated with epidural, GA or sedation?
10. Does your Trust have a psychosexual counselling service for PTSD caused by severe procedural pain?

Yours faithfully,

Katharine Tylko-Hill

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dear Katharine

 

Thank you for your request for information made under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000, as detailed in your email below.  Your request was
received on 25^th April 2017 and we are treating it under Section 1.1 of
the Act.

 

We have 20 working days to respond to your request from the day after we
received your email into the Trust and will do so by 24^th May 2017.

 

Your request reference number is RFI 005341.

 

If you have any queries about your request, please contact us at
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Kind regards

Joanne

 

Joanne Sturdy

Information Governance Administrator

Department for Information Governance, Caldicott & SIRO Support

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Royal Hallamshire Hospital

2 Claremont Place

Sheffield

S10 2TB

Tel: 0114 226 5151

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Katharine Tylko-Hill

Dear Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust,

Please may I possibly have a response to my FOIA request re. OUTPATIENT HYSTEROSCOPY. If not all the information is readily accessible, please may I have links to the information that should be easy to access, e.g. the patient info leaflet, any audits.

This FOIA request is part of a nationwide audit aimed at sharing best practice in the early diagnosis of endometrial cancer. Your help in identifying barriers to early diagnosis of cancer is much appreciated.

With many thanks for your help.

Yours faithfully,

Katharine Tylko-Hill

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dear Katharine

Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding to the Freedom of
Information request which you made. I have chased the relevant department
and we will endeavour to provide the information to you as soon as
possible.

Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. 

Kind regards

Joanne

Joanne Sturdy

Information Governance Administrator

Department for Information Governance, Caldicott & SIRO Support

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Royal Hallamshire Hospital

2 Claremont Place

Sheffield

S10 2TB

Tel: 0114 226 5151

Fax: 0114 226 5152

email: [1][email address]

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Katharine Tylko-Hill

Dear Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust,

Please could you possibly see if I could have answers to my FOIA request re Outpatient Hysteroscopy. This is part of a nationwide survey and the vast majority of hospitals have answered the questions in so far as the time-limit of the law permits. Even if only a few questions are able to be answered it is helpful. The reason for the survey is to identify and then promote best practice in the early diagnosis of womb cancer.

The results of the survey go to the RCOG.

With many thanks,

Yours faithfully,

Katharine Tylko-Hill

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dear Katharine

 

Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding to the Freedom of 
Information request which you made. I have chased the relevant department 
and we will endeavour to provide the information to you as soon as 
possible.

 

Please accept my apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused. 

 

Kind regards

Joanne

 

Joanne Sturdy

Information Governance Administrator

Department for Information Governance, Caldicott & SIRO Support

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Royal Hallamshire Hospital

2 Claremont Place

Sheffield

S10 2TB

Tel: 0114 226 5151

Fax: 0114 226 5152

email: [1][email address]

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addressed  Any views or opinions expressed are those of the author and do
not represent the views of the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation
Trust unless otherwise explicitly stated.  The information contained in
this e-mail may be subject to public disclosure under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.  Unless the information is legally exempt from
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Katharine Tylko-Hill

Dear Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust,

Please could you possibly see if I might have answers to my FOIA request re Outpatient Hysteroscopy. This is part of a nationwide survey and the vast majority of hospitals have answered the questions in so far as the time-limit of the law permits. Even if only a few questions are able to be answered it is helpful. The reason for the survey is to identify and then promote best practice in the early diagnosis of womb cancer.

The results of the survey go to the RCOG.

With many thanks,

Yours faithfully,

Katharine Tylko-Hill

Yours faithfully,

Katharine Tylko-Hill

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Dear Katharine

 

Please find enclosed herewith our response to your request for
information, made under the Freedom of Information Act.

 

Please accept our sincere apologies for the delay in sending our response.

 

Kind regards

Amy

 

Amy Cooper

Information Governance Officer 

Department for Information Governance, Caldicott & SIRO Support

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Royal Hallamshire Hospital

2 Claremont Place 

Sheffield

S10 2TB

Tel: 0114 226 5161

Fax: 0114 226 5152

email: [1][email address]

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Katharine Tylko-Hill

Dear Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust,

Thank you so much. This is really helpful since it shows that Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS FT offers hysteroscopy patients alternative modes of treatment, and no potentially high risk electrosurgery. So good to have an example of best practice.

Yours faithfully,

Katharine Tylko-Hill