FOI Request - Patients Treated

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Dear Croydon Health Services NHS Trust,

I would like to please request the following information:

1) Could you please provide the number of patients treated with teriparatide in the last 12 months of data you have (November 2020 - October 2021).

2) Could you provide the proportion that were treated with teriparatide within Rheumatology, Orthopedics or other.

3) Could you provide the number of patients treated with oral bisphosphonates in the last 12 months of data you have (November 2020 - October 2021).

4) Could you provide the proportion that were treated with oral bisphosphonates within Rheumatology, Orthopedics or other.

5) Could you provide the number of patients treated with Vitamin D in the last 12 months of data you have (November 2020 - October 2021).

6) Could you provide the proportion that were treated with Vitamin D within Rheumatology, Orthopedics or other.

Thank you for taking the time to respond to this request, and I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Yours faithfully,
Oliver Caswell

FOI (CROYDON HEALTH SERVICES NHS TRUST), Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

 

 

Thank you for your FOI request which is now being considered.  Your
reference number is: FOI 3002, and should be quoted in all your future
correspondence relating to this request.

 

It is anticipated that a response will be communicated to you within 20
working days in compliance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

 

 

Kind regards

 

FOI Team

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

Email: [1][email address]

 

 

 

 

 

 

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FOI (CROYDON HEALTH SERVICES NHS TRUST), Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

Dear Oliver

 

FOI REFERENCE NUMBER: 3002

 
Thank you for your email of 19^th November 2021 requesting information
Under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000.  I set out below your
request together with our response:

 

I would like to please request the following information:

 

 

1) Could you please provide the number of patients treated with
teriparatide in the last 12 months of data you have (November 2020 -
October 2021). 27

 

2) Could you provide the proportion that were treated with teriparatide
within Rheumatology, Orthopedics or other. All Rheumatology

 

3) Could you provide the number of patients treated with oral
bisphosphonates in the last 12 months of data you have (November 2020 -
October 2021). 248.

 

4) Could you provide the proportion that were treated with oral
bisphosphonates within Rheumatology, Orthopedics or other. We do not hold
this information

 

5) Could you provide the number of patients treated with Vitamin D in the
last 12 months of data you have (November 2020 - October 2021).  1373

 

6) Could you provide the proportion that were treated with Vitamin D
within Rheumatology, Orthopedics or other. We do not hold this information

 

Most of the bisphosphonate/vitamin D prescriptions are requests to GPs to
prescribe once patients have been seen in clinic 

 

 

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If you are unhappy with this response the Trust has a formal Complaints
Procedure which you may use by writing to The Medical Director,
[1][Croydon Health Services NHS Trust request email].  If you remain unsatisfied you may contact the
Information Commissioner’s Office at Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire   SK9 5AF.   Further details of this procedure can be found
online at - [2]https://ico.org.uk/.

Thank you for your interest in Croydon Health Services NHS Trust.

 

Yours sincerely

 

FOI Team

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

Email: [3][email address]

 

 

 

 

 

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