Heart Failure Service Information
Dear Sir / Madam
We are conducting a project which involves mapping heart failure services across the NHS and this request for information regarding the services provided by your organisation is an important part of this.
I would be grateful if you could please answer the following questions.
1. What is the name of your Heart Failure Service?
2. Population served by the Heart Failure Service?
3. What is the service setting?
a) Acute hospital
b) Community hospital
c) Integrated care
d) Primary care
4. Approximate case load of Heart Failure patients seen per week?
5. Number of follow ups in 2021/22?
6. Which populations do you provide the following services for and are you commissioned for these services?
a) Heart Failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFrEF)
b) Heart Failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFpEF)
7. Staff dedicated to Heart Failure:
a) Number of Heart Failure consultants (pa's)
b) Number of Heart Failure nurses (WTE)
c) Number of Heart Failure Pharmacists (WTE)
8. Which of these (a to g) does your NHS organisation have?
a) Access to open access ECHO
b) Access to Cardiac rehab?
c) HF Multi Disciplinary Team (MDT)
d) Cardiologist Non HF specialist
e) Cardiologist HF specialist
f) Cardiology Pharmacist
g) GPwER (previously called GPwSI)
9. Which of the following (h to n) service models do you provide?
h) Acute inpatient
i) HF outpatient
j) Hospital based ambulatory heart failure unit
k) Community based ambulatory heart failure unit
l) Home based service / care
m) Community based clinic
n) Heart Failure virtual ward
10. Do you believe that the current service specification adequately reflects the range and volume of activity your service provides? (Yes / No)
Many thanks in advance.
Yours faithfully,
Niklas Marksteiner
Dear Mr Marksteiner
Thank you for your request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Under the Act we have 20 working days to respond to a request, therefore we will aim to provide you with our response by 30 May 2022. However, please be advised that our resources have been diverted to support our front-line colleagues who are working tremendously hard to provide care for our patients, and to those in need of our services. As you can hopefully understand, this is resulting in delays responding to information requests. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause, we do remain committed to responding to your request and will respond as soon as we are able.
Should our response to your request breach the statutory timeframe and you remain unhappy with our response you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioners Office. The Information Commissioner’s offices will be closed for the foreseeable future, and are therefore unable to receive correspondence via post but can be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/
Should you need to contact us in the meantime, please quote reference number 2022.025.
Kind regards
Freedom of Information Team
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
The Oast, Hermitage Court
Hermitage Lane, Maidstone
Kent, ME16 9NT
01622 211900
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Dear Mr Marksteiner
With regard to your request for information via the Freedom of Information
Act 2000, please find attached our response.
Kind regards
FOI Team
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
The Oast, Hermitage Court
Hermitage Lane, Maidstone
Kent, ME16 9NT
01622 211900
In accordance with GDPR Art. 6(1)(c) processing of your data by Kent
Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is necessary for compliance with its
legal obligation under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to respond to
you. Please refer to the “access to information” section available on our
website: [1]https://www.kentcht.nhs.uk/about-us/acce...
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