Endomyocardial Biopsy (EMB)

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Denise Amstrong

Dear Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Partnership NHS Trust,
Please can you provide me with the following information with regards to this procedure at your Trust.

1. Does your Hospital perform Endomyocardial (EMB) Biopsy procedures?

2. If yes, How many Endomyocardial (EMB) Biopsy procedures were performed in:
a. 2014
b. 2015

3. What was your Trust’s spend on Endomyocardial Biopsy in:
a. 2014
b. 2015

4. Does your Hospital perform Biopsy to diagnose Amoeloid Cardiomyopathy?

5. If yes, How many Amoeloid Biopsy procedures were performed in:
a. 2014
b. 2015

Yours faithfully,

Denise Amstrong

FOI (SSOTP), Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Partnership NHS Trust

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0300 124 0093

Heath Nigel (R1E) SSOTP, Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Partnership NHS Trust

Freedom of Information Act 2000

Dear Sir/Madam,

FOI REF: FOI 538

Further to your request for information received 27th June 2016 made under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 I must inform you that the Partnership Trust does not hold this information.

These services are provided in this area by University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust and their contact details can be found here: http://www.uhnm.nhs.uk/contactus/pages/C...

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Yours sincerely,

Nigel Heath

Freedom of Information Officer
Information Governance Team – IM&T
Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Partnership NHS Trust
Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, ST5 2AG
www.staffordshireandstokeontrent.nhs.uk

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