Critical Haemorrhage Incidents & Equipment/Training.
Dear Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust,
For the purposes of this request a critical haemorrhage incident is defined as:
“A major haemorrhage, normally from an artery, which is likely to result in death within a period of time that may be as short as minutes, because of the rapid internal or external loss of circulating blood volume.”
Please can you supply me with the following:
Q1: The number of instances of Critical Haemorrhage Incidents the trust dealt with in 2020/2021 & 2021/2022 (if financial limits are likely to be hit please contact me before refusal) please include incidents regardless of who they effected (Patients, Staff, Volunteers, Visitors & Contractors)
Q2: Does HPFT have equipment to deal with critical haemorrhage available in wards and other patient areas? If so can you provide a list of this equipment? By equipment I mean Tourniquets, Trauma/Israeli Dressings (not first aid/ambulance dressings) & Haemostatics.
Q3: If Critical Haemorrhage Equipment is available do you ensure staff are trained in it's use? If so which staff is this training accessible too (e.g. Registered Health Care Professional's only, All clinical staff to include HCA's/Support workers, All Staff)
Please only consider this request in relation to Mental Health & Learning Disability Services.
Yours faithfully,
Ben Jones
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Dear Ben,
Thank you for your request concerning Critical Haemorrhage Incidents & Equipment/Training.
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services; we do not hold information relevant to this request.
You may wish to contact our local NHS Trusts who provide acute healthcare. I have given their details below.
West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Trust Offices
Watford General Hospital
Vicarage Road
Watford
Hertfordshire
WD18 0HB
East and North Hertfordshire Hospital NHS Trust
Lister Hospital
Coreys Mill Lane
Stevenage
Hertfordshire
SG1 4AB
Could you please let me know if you are happy for me to close this request?
Kind regards
Dean
Please note I am currently working from home.
Dean Maberly
Information Rights Assistant
Information Rights & Compliance Team
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
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Dear FOI (HERTFORDSHIRE PARTNERSHIP UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST),
Thank you for your response. My query should be applied with reference to inpatients generally. I understand that HPFT provides MH services but is also responsible for the "physical health" of patients, staff, contractors and visitors while they are on their premises.
It is not beyond the relms of possibility that HPFT may have to provide initial/immediate care to a Catastrophic/Critical Haemorrhage incident either delibrate (self harm/assault etc) or accidental (falls/use of equipment etc).
Yours sincerely,
Ben Jones
Dear Ben,
Please accept our apologies for the delay to our response.
Please find our acknowledgement letter attached.
Kind regards
Dean
Please note I am currently working from home.
Dean Maberly
Information Rights Assistant
Information Rights & Compliance Team
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
99 Waverley Road | St. Albans | Hertfordshire | AL3 5TL
Office Tel: 01727 804227
[mobile number]
MM www.hpft.nhs.uk
Working Hours: Monday – Friday, 8:30am – 5:00pm
Please consider the environment before printing my email
Dear
Ben
Thank you for your freedom of information request and we would like to
apologise for the late response. We have now published the response on
our disclosure log. Please follow this [1]link to FOI 4178.
Please find attached an information sheet regarding copyright protection
and the Trust’s complaints procedure in the event that you are not
satisfied with the response.
Best Wishes
Sue Smith
Sue Smith
Information Rights Officer
Information Rights & Compliance Team
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
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