Maternity Costs

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Dear East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust,

I wondered if you could give me the following information of your Maternity
department over the last 12 months.

What clinical system do they use to record information?
How are notes recorded for Postnatal care i.e. on paper or
electronically?
Number babies born per year
Number of midwives - both antenatal/postnatal and community (if
different)
Overall cost of travelling expenses for community midwives
Amount spent on agency staff in Maternity

The Payment by Results data for the last 12 months by month. The
information I would like to see is outlined:
The standard payment value per patient for each category (standard,
intermediate and intensive).
Antenatal: The number of standard, intermediate and intensive cases
and the percentage of those collected/missed and their monetary
value in £.
Postnatal: The number of standard, intermediate and intensive cases
and the percentage of those collected/missed and their monetary
value in £.

Yours faithfully,

Jo Flynn

Cannon Hansa (ELHT) Executive PA, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

Dear Ms Flynn

Re: Freedom of Information Request under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 - Ref: 2017/06/08 Flynn J

Thank you for your request which was received on 8 June 2017, in which you asked for the following information from East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT):

Maternity department over the last 12 months;
What clinical system do they use to record information?
How are notes recorded for Postnatal care i.e. on paper or electronically?
Number babies born per year
Number of midwives - both antenatal/postnatal and community (if
different)
Overall cost of travelling expenses for community midwives Amount spent on agency staff in Maternity
The Payment by Results data for the last 12 months by month. The information you would like to see is outlined:
The standard payment value per patient for each category (standard, intermediate and intensive).
Antenatal: The number of standard, intermediate and intensive cases and the percentage of those collected/missed and their monetary value in £.
Postnatal: The number of standard, intermediate and intensive cases and the percentage of those collected/missed and their monetary value in £.

Under the Act, the department is required to provide you with a response within 20 working days. We will write to you in response to your request for information by 6 July 2017.

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Yours sincerely

Corporate Governance Compliance Officer
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

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Freedom of Information (ELHT) Mailbox, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

Dear Ms Flynn

 

Thank you for your request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.

 

Please see below answers to your questions.

 

What clinical system do they use to record information?

Athena and Guardian – Intrapartum; Unity (internally developed system) for
antenatal and postnatal.

 

How are notes recorded for postnatal care i.e. on paper or electronically?

Both on paper and electronically.

 

Number babies born per year

2015/16 – 6,556

2016/17 – 6,489

 

Number of midwives - both antenatal/postnatal and community (if different)

162.67 WTE midwives.

 

Overall cost of travelling expenses for community midwives

2016/17 cost - £35,197

 

Amount spent on agency staff in Maternity

No expenditure on agency in maternity.

 

The Payment by Results data for the last 12 months by month. The
information I would like to see is outlined:

 

The standard payment value per patient for each category (standard,
intermediate and intensive)

This information is available on the internet.
[1]https://www.gov.uk/government/publicatio...

2016/17 national tariff per category is:

 

  Antenatal Postnatal
Standard 1,057 250
Intermediate 1,691 315
Intensive 2,815 848

 

These prices are subject to uplift of market forces factor.

 

Antenatal: The number of standard, intermediate and intensive cases and
the percentage of those collected/missed and their monetary value in £

We cannot provide the percentage of those missed.

 

  Intensive Intermediate Standard
Apr 45 280 289
May 37 272 258
Jun 51 306 284
Jul 38 253 271
Aug 33 261 266
Sep 34 262 299
Oct 33 239 281
Nov 41 296 285
Dec 43 247 272
Jan 63 339 295
Feb 53 288 231
Mar 60 334 262
Total 531 3,377 3,293

 

 

Postnatal: The number of standard, intermediate and intensive cases and
the percentage of those collected/missed and their monetary value in £.

We cannot provide the percentage of those missed..

 

  Intensive Intermediate Standard
Apr 0 110 368
May 0 125 389
Jun 0 114 374
Jul 0 108 426
Aug 0 135 368
Sep 2 156 337
Oct 0 125 371
Nov 0 107 316
Dec 0 114 358
Jan 0 114 321
Feb 0 97 328
Mar 0 91 337
Total 2 1,396 4,293

 

 

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Regards

 

Hansa Cannon

Corporate Governance Compliance Officer

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