Heart Failure Service Information

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Niklas Marksteiner

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

FOI (SHEFFIELD TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST), Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Joanne Sturdy

Information Governance Officer

Department for Information Governance, Caldicott & SIRO Support

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Royal Hallamshire Hospital

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Sheffield

S10 2TB

Tel: 0114 226 5151

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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

 

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FOI (SHEFFIELD TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST), Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Dear Niklas

 

Please find enclosed herewith our response to your request for
information, made under the Freedom of Information Act.

 

Kind regards

Amy

 

Amy Cooper

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

Tel: 0114 226 5161

email: [1][email address]

 

 

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