Nipple Tattoo Request
Dear Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust,
I’m looking for information about Nipple and Areola Complex tattoos that are offered to breast cancer patients following mastectomy surgery.
The specific information I’m looking for is as follows;
1. What training requirements will a potential practitioner have to endure
before they are considered qualified and capable of providing Nipple or areola tattoos for patients who have lost their Nipple or Areola Complex
(NAC).
2. What is the individual cost to the NHS per unilateral nipple Tattoo.
3. What is the individual cost to the NHS per bilateral nipple Tattoos.
5. How many nipple tattoos were performed in total in 2019 and In 2020.
I’ll look forward to hearing from someone about my request!
Best wishes
Yours faithfully,
Lucy Thompson
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Dear Ms Thompson,
Please find attached a formal response to your Freedom of Information request. Please accept our apologies for the delay.
Kind regards,
Freedom of Information Officer
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Dear FOI HHFT,
Thank you kindly for your response.
Considering there were only 8 nipple tattoos done in 2020 I find it very hard to believe that the Trust estimates that this request would exceed the
appropriate time and cost limit to undertake such a detailed investigation.
Surely checking the data of just 8 procedures isn't that time consuming. Even just to know about two of them which would give us an average idea of costings would be appreciated.
Yours sincerely,
Lucy Thompson
Good afternoon
Please find attached correspondence in relation to the above.
Regards
Jessica
Jessica Hodge
[1]HHFT Logo 2017 Data Protection Officer
IT
Tel: ext 24285
Email: [2][email address]
Work location: RHCH
Web: [3]www.hampshirehospitals.nhs.uk
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