Outpatient Hysteroscopy/Biopsy - Pain control and Patient Choice

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Katharine Tylko-Hill

Dear Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust,

This is a repeat of the request I sent you on 17 November 2013.

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

Clark Julie (ROYAL UNITED HOSPITAL BATH NHS TRUST - RD1),

Dear Katharine,

This is just to acknowledge receipt of your request under the Freedom of Information Act.

I can confirm that your request is being dealt with and that you can expect to receive a reply within the timescales specified.

In the meantime, if I can assist any further with this request, please do get back to me.

Yours Sincerely,

Julie Clark
IT/IG Coordinator
Information Technology Department (adjacent Building 4)
Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust
Combe Park
Bath BA1 3NG

Please consider joining us as a member of our NHS Foundation Trust:
www.ruh.nhs.uk/foundationtrust

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Clark Julie (ROYAL UNITED HOSPITAL BATH NHS TRUST - RD1),

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Dear Katharine

 

Sorry for the delay in responding to your request and thank-you for your
email received on 10^th January 2014 requesting information which has been
processed under the Freedom of Information Act. Your request has been
considered in accordance with the requirements of this Act. I can confirm
that the Trust is holding records that are relevant to your enquiry.
Please see attached documents.

 

I trust that this information provides you with a suitable response to
your enquiry. If not and you feel that your request has not been
satisfactorily answered, then the Trust has an internal review procedure
for dealing with complaints received under the Freedom of Information Act
2000 whereby your case is presented to the Chairman for an independent
review/decision.  Alternatively, you do have the right to complain to the
Information Commissioners Office after any internal review procedure has
been exhausted. The Information Commissioners Office is an independent
body that enforces the Freedom of Information Act, the Data Protection Act
and the Environmental Information regulations. The address of the
Information Commissioner is Information Commissioners Office, Wycliffe
House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,  Cheshire  SK9 5AF

If I can be of any further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact
me again.

 

 

 

Julie Clark

IT/IG Coordinator

Information Technology Department (adjacent Building 4)

Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust

Combe Park

Bath BA1 3NG

 

 

Please consider joining us as a member of our NHS Foundation Trust:

[1]www.ruh.nhs.uk/foundationtrust

 

 

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