Outpatient Hysteroscopy/Biopsy - Pain control and Patient Choice

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Katharine Tylko-Hill

Dear United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust,

Under the Freedom of Information Act (2000) please would you supply
the following information relating to your Trust’s practice of

OUTPATIENT HYSTEROSCOPY/BIOPSY – PAIN CONTROL AND PATIENT CHOICE

1. The current patient information leaflet

2. The current consent form

3. The current surgical protocol

4. Does the leaflet advise the patient to ask her GP to prescribe
gynae-specific painkillers to be taken BEFORE the procedure - Y/N?

5. What type and dose of painkillers does your Trust advise
patients to take before the procedure?

6. Are ALL your hysteroscopy/biopsy patients given the following
choices BEFORE the procedure is attempted:
a) General Anaesthesia – Y/N?
b) spinal anaesthesia – Y/N?
c) conscious sedation – Y/N?

7. For each of the last 3 financial years, how many of your
hysteroscopy/biopsy patients had
a) GA with overnight stay?
b) GA day-case ?
c) spinal anaesthesia?
d) conscious sedation?
e) local anaesthetic?
f) no anaesthetic?

8. What width hysteroscopes do you use? Rigid or flexible?

9. For each of the last 3 financial years what % patients DNA
outpatient hysteroscopy/biopsy?

10. For each of the last 3 financial years what % OP
hysteroscopy/biopsy patients had a failed procedure that had to be
repeated with epidural, GA or conscious sedation?

11. All audits of adverse events, e.g. infection, perforation
during the last 3 financial years

12. All surveys of patients’ experiences during the last 3
financial years

Yours faithfully,

Katharine Tylko-Hill
Macmillan CancerVOICE

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust

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Katharine Tylko-Hill

Dear United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust,

Please would you let me know if my FOIA request re Outpatient Hysteroscopy is being processed?

Yours faithfully,

Katharine Tylko-Hill

Katharine Tylko-Hill

Dear United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust,

Re: 483/13
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust's handling of my FOI request 'Outpatient Hysteroscopy/Biopsy - Pain control and Patient Choice'.

I made my request in November and have not received a response.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/o...

Yours faithfully,

Katharine Tylko-Hill

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust

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Katharine

 

Please see attached letter and attachment

 

Peter

 

Peter Marshall

Interim Trust Secretary

 

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust

Trust Headquarters, Lincoln County Hospital, Greetwell Road, Lincoln, LN2
4AX

 

T: 01522 573988  F: 01522 573991

 

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