Outpatient Hysteroscopy/Biopsy - Pain control and Patient Choice
Dear University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire 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
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Dear Ms Tylko-Hill
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Yours sincerely
Linda Nelson
Freedom of Information Officer
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Dear Ms Tylko-Hill
With reference to your request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act, please find our response attached.
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Many thanks
Yours sincerely
Linda Nelson
Freedom of Information Officer
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
Clifford Bridge Road
Walsgrave
Coventry
CV2 2DX
Tel No: 02476-968813
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