Outpatient hysteroscopy/biopsy - Pain Control and Patient Choice

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Katharine Tylko-Hill

Dear The Newcastle Upon Tyne 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

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Katharine Tylko-Hill

Dear Freedom of Information,

Thank you for your response re OUTPATIENT HYSTEROSCOPY. Please would you possibly be able to those questions to which you have easily accessible answers. This is part of a nationwide survey which has gone to 120+ hospitals, the vast majority of whom have supplied answers to the majority of questions, omiting any that would exceed the time permitted under the FOIA.

Links to OPH audits are of great interest. The request is an attempt at demonstrating best practice in OPH and making best practice available to more patients throughout the country.

Very many thanks,

Yours sincerely,

Katharine Tylko-Hill

Katharine Tylko-Hill

Dear The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust's handling of my FOI request 'Outpatient hysteroscopy/biopsy - Pain Control and Patient Choice'.

Over 100 NHS Trusts have replied to as many questions as they can within the legal time-frame. This FOIA request is part of a nationwide survey to identify and promote best practice in the early diagnosis of womb cancer via hysteroscopy/biopsy. The results are sent to the RCOG & BSGE.

Your Trust's contribution, as best you can, will help detect cancer earlier.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/o...

Yours faithfully,

Katharine Tylko-Hill

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Katharine Tylko-Hill

Dear The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust's handling of my FOI request 'Outpatient hysteroscopy/biopsy - Pain Control and Patient Choice'.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/o...

Yours faithfully,

Katharine Tylko-Hill

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Katharine Tylko-Hill

Dear The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust,

Please may I request an internal review into my FOIA request re OUTPATIENT HYSTEROSCOPY. Over 100 other hospital Trusts have helpfully answered all those questions to which they have readily available answers.

Thank you.

Yours faithfully,

Katharine Tylko-Hill

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Dear Ms Tylko-Hill,

Please see the attached, in response to your FOI request and request for review.

Kind regards,

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