Bowel Care in Wales - spinal cord injured patients
Dear Hywel Dda University Health Board,
I am sending a separate Freedom of Information request to every Health Board in Wales, and would request that Freedom of Information Coordinators send (via the WhatDoTheyKnow website) a discrete and separate response for each of the individual areas they are responsible for.
I work for the Spinal Injuries Association (SIA), the leading national user-led charity supporting spinal cord injured people and their families. Being a user led organisation SIA understand the immense challenges of living with a spinal cord injury (SCI). We strive to support all SCI people to access the services and support they need to stay healthy and live fulfilled and active lives.
As a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I’d be grateful if you could provide the following information about the provision of bowel care for adults.
Q1. Does the Board have a formal written policy for digital rectal examination, digital rectal stimulation and the digital removal of faeces in spinal cord injured and other patients with neurogenic bowel dysfunction?
(a) Yes
(b) No
Q2. Is your policy based on the policy template that the Spinal Injuries Association circulated to your Board in August 2018?
(a) Yes
(b) No
(c) No bowel assessment and management policy in place
Q3. If admitted to the Board, will a person with neurogenic bowel dysfunction receive the following bowel care intervention – Digital removal of faeces?
(a) Yes
(b) No
Q4. If admitted to the Board, will a person with neurogenic bowel dysfunction receive the following bowel care intervention – Digital rectal stimulation?
(a) Yes
(b) No
Q5. If admitted to the Board, will a person with neurogenic bowel dysfunction receive the following bowel care intervention – Trans anal irrigation?
(a) Yes
(b) No
Q6. Do you have ward-based staff skilled in supporting patients with neurogenic bowel care interventions, including the digital removal of faeces?
(a) Yes
(b) No
Q7. Are staff available seven days a week to undertake these bowel care interventions?
(a) Yes
(b) No
Q8. Does the Board have a policy that allows for the personal care assistants/carers of spinal
cord injured patients to assist with the bowel care element of the patient's care?
(a) Yes
(b) No
Q9. Does the Board have an appropriate clinical lead in place (such as a Continence Manager) to manage the overall delivery of bowel care interventions to patients?
(a) Yes
(b) No
Q10. What are the contact details for this clinical lead (i.e. name, job title, telephone number and email address)?
Thank you for your help with this request; if you have any queries then please let me know as soon as possible.
Yours faithfully,
Sophie Davis
Cais am Wybodaeth o dan Deddf Rhyddid Gwybodaeth 2000
Diolch am eich cais diweddar am gyflenwi gwybodaeth gan Fwrdd Iechyd
Prifysgol Hywel Dda.
O dan y Ddeddf, mae'n ofynnol i'r Bwrdd Iechyd gyflenwi'r wybodaeth i chi
cyn pen 20 diwrnod gwaith, felly'r dyddia dhwyrach y gallwch chi ddisgwyl
derbyn ymateb yw 27 Chwefror 2023. Yn yr achos annhebygol na allwn ymateb
o fewn y terfyn amser hwn, byddwn yn cyfathrebu â chi ymhellach.
Atodwch ddolen ar ein tudalen sy'n darparu arweiniad ar ein gweithdrefn ar
gyfer rheoli ceisiadau am wybodaeth a gwmpesir o dan y Ddeddf Rhyddid
Gwybodaeth 2000.
[1]Rhyddid gwybodaeth - Bwrdd Iechyd Prifysgol Hywel Dda (gig.cymru)
Information requested under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
Thank you for your recent request for the supply of information from Hywel
Dda University Health Board.
Under the Act, the Health Board is required to supply the information to
you within 20 working days, therefore the latest date by which you can
expect to receive a response is 27 February 2023. In the unlikely event
that we are unable to respond within this deadline, we will communicate
with you further.
Please find attached a link to our webpage which provides guidance on our
procedure for managing requests for information that is covered under the
Freedom of Information Act 2000.
[2]Freedom of information - Hywel Dda University Health Board (nhs.wales)
Diolch/Thank you,
Rebecca Davies
Freedom of Information Officer/Swyddog Rhyddid Gwybodaeth
I am currently working from home, therefore I am only contactable via
email as my office phone is un-manned. Please get in touch via email and I
will respond at the earliest opportunity.
E-bost/ Email: [3][Hywel Dda LHB request email]
Bwrdd Iechyd Prifysgol Hywel Dda yw enw gweithredol Bwrdd Iechyd Lleol
Hywel Dda/
Hywel Dda University Health Board is the operational name of Hywel Dda
Local Health Board
Annwyl/Dear Sophie
Amgaeaf ein hymateb i'ch cais am Rhyddid Gwybodaeth. Derbyniwch fy
ymddiheuriadau am yr oedi.
Please find attached our response to your Freedom of Information request.
Please accept my apologies for the delay.
Diolch/Thank you,
Rebecca Davies
Freedom of Information Officer/Swyddog Rhyddid Gwybodaeth
I am currently working from home, therefore I am only contactable via
email as my office phone is un-manned. Please get in touch via email and I
will respond at the earliest opportunity.
E-bost/ Email: [1][Hywel Dda LHB request email]
Bwrdd Iechyd Prifysgol Hywel Dda yw enw gweithredol Bwrdd Iechyd Lleol
Hywel Dda/
Hywel Dda University Health Board is the operational name of Hywel Dda
Local Health Board
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