Epilepsy Treatment
Dear Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust,
I would like to please request the following information, with regards to treatment of Epilepsy in your trust/ board.
In the last 12 months of available data:
1a. What number of unique patients have been treated for Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, Dravet Syndrome and Tuberous Sclerosis Complex? Please give answers for each condition separately.
1b. For each indication (Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, Dravet Syndrome and Tuberous Sclerosis Complex), what number of these have been treated in a paediatric environment?
2a. How many patients have been treated with Epidyolex in a paediatric environment?
3a. Can you please detail which NHS Trusts/ Health Boards these patients have been referred from?
Yours faithfully,
Oliver Caswell
Dear Oliver
Thank you for your request for information made under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000, as detailed in your email below. Your request was
received on 12^th January 2023 and we are treating it under Section 1.1 of
the Act.
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received your email into the Trust and will do so by 9^th February 2023.
Your request reference number is RFI 010439.
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Kind regards
Joanne
Joanne Sturdy
Information Governance Officer
Department for Information Governance, Caldicott & SIRO Support
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Royal Hallamshire Hospital
2 Claremont Place
Sheffield
S10 2TB
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Dear Oliver
Please find enclosed herewith our response to your request for
information, made under the Freedom of Information Act.
Kind regards
Joanne
Joanne Sturdy
Information Governance Officer
Department for Information Governance, Caldicott & SIRO Support
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Royal Hallamshire Hospital
2 Claremont Place
Sheffield
S10 2TB
"This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and
intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are
addressed. Any views or opinions expressed are those of the author and do
not represent the views of the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation
Trust unless otherwise explicitly stated. The information contained in
this e-mail may be subject to public disclosure under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. Unless the information is legally exempt from
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