Patients treated within your trust

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Dear Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust,

The following questions with regards to patients treated in your trust are being asked for on behalf of Novartis.

1) In total, over the past 4 months, how many patients have been treated for the following diseases (Rheumatoid arthritis, Axial Spondyloarthritis, Psoriatic arthritis, Psoriasis, hidradenitis suppurativa)?

2) Of these five, how many of each received the following products:

- Adalimumab (Humira)
- Adalimumab Biosimilar
- Etanercept (Enbrel)
- Etanercept Biosimilar
- Infliximab (Remicade)
- Infliximab biosimilar
- Golimumab (Simponi)
- Tofacitinib (Xeljanz)
- Ustekinumab (Stelara)
- Vedolizumab (Entyvio)
- Filgotinib (Jyseleca)
- Abatacept (Orencia)
- Baricitinib (Olumiant)
- Certolizumab Pegol (Cimzia)
- Rituximab (MabThera)
- Rituximab Biosimilar
- Tocilizumab (RoActemra)
- Sarilumab (Kevzara)
- Apremilast (Otezla)
- Secukinumab (Cosentyx)
- Isekizumab (Taltz)
- Guselkumab (Tremfya)
- Brodalumab (Kyntheum)
- Risankizumab (Skyrizi)
- Tildrakizumab (Ilumetri)
- Upadacitinib (Rinvoq)
- Bimekizumab (Bimzelx)

3) Could you please provide the number of these patients that were treated within the gastro department (still split by disease and treatment).

4) Over the same time period, how many patients for each of the five diseases (Rheumatoid arthritis, Axial Spondyloarthritis, Psoriatic arthritis, Psoriasis, hidradenitis suppurativa) received the following treatments as their first ever biologic treatment?

- AxSPA
- PsA
- PsO

Thank you for taking the time to answer these questions, and I look forward to your response.

Yours faithfully,

Oliver Caswell

FOI (BLACK COUNTRY HEALTHCARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST), Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Dear Oliver,

FOI7319

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Kind regards,

Information Governance Team
Email: [Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust request email]
Tel: 01922 607000
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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FOI (BLACK COUNTRY HEALTHCARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST), Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Dear Oliver,

 

FOI7319

 

Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. We have
completed our search for information and the details are as follows:

 

The following questions with regards to patients treated in your trust are
being asked for on behalf of Novartis.

 

1) In total, over the past 4 months, how many patients have been treated
for the following diseases (Rheumatoid arthritis, Axial Spondyloarthritis,
Psoriatic arthritis, Psoriasis, hidradenitis suppurativa)?

 

N/A as the Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides mental
health, learning disabilities and children’s community services. Therefore
this request is not relevant to the organisation.

 

2)      Of these five, how many of each received the following products:
N/A

 

-         Adalimumab (Humira)

-       Adalimumab Biosimilar

-       Etanercept (Enbrel)

-       Etanercept Biosimilar

-       Infliximab (Remicade)

-       Infliximab biosimilar

-       Golimumab (Simponi)

-       Tofacitinib (Xeljanz)

-       Ustekinumab (Stelara)

-       Vedolizumab (Entyvio)

-       Filgotinib (Jyseleca)

-       Abatacept (Orencia)

-       Baricitinib (Olumiant)

-       Certolizumab Pegol (Cimzia)

-       Rituximab (MabThera)

-       Rituximab Biosimilar

-       Tocilizumab (RoActemra)

-       Sarilumab (Kevzara)

-       Apremilast (Otezla)

-       Secukinumab (Cosentyx)

-       Isekizumab (Taltz)

-       Guselkumab (Tremfya)

-       Brodalumab (Kyntheum)

-       Risankizumab (Skyrizi)

-       Tildrakizumab (Ilumetri)

-       Upadacitinib (Rinvoq)

-       Bimekizumab (Bimzelx)

 

1)       Could you please provide the number of these patients that were
treated within the gastro department (still split by disease and
treatment).

 

N/A

 

4)      Over the same time period, how many patients for each of the five
diseases (Rheumatoid arthritis, Axial Spondyloarthritis, Psoriatic
arthritis, Psoriasis, hidradenitis suppurativa) received the following
treatments as their first ever biologic treatment?

 

-       AxSPA

-       PsA

-       PsO

 

N/A

 

The full Freedom of Information Act 2000 is available on the legislation
website via the following link:
[1]http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000.... The Trust is
regarding this response as a full and complete discharge of its
responsibilities under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in relation to
this request. I trust it fulfils your requirements but should you have any
concerns please do not hesitate to contact us and we will attempt to
resolve your issues.

 

If you are unhappy with the outcome of your request our complaints process
is available on our internet site; [2]www.blackcountryhealthcare.nhs.uk.
If you are not satisfied with the outcome of your complaint you can raise
your concerns directly with the Information Commissioner, please be aware
that the ICO cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the
complaints process provided by the Trust. The Information Commissioner can
be contacted at: The Information Commissioners Office, Wycliffe House,
Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF or via their website
[3]www.ico.org.uk.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Information Governance Team

Email: [4][Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust request email]

Tel: 01922 607000

Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

 

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