Outpatient hysteroscopy/biopsy - Pain Control and Patient Choice

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Katharine Tylko-Hill

Dear Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust,

Under the FOIA (2000) please would you supply the following information relating to your Trust’s (and its outsourced services’) practice of OUTPATIENT HYSTEROSCOPY/BIOPSY – PAIN CONTROL AND PATIENT CHOICE

1. The patient information leaflet/s
2. The consent form/s
3. For each of the last 3 financial years:
i. all audits of OP hysteroscopy adverse events, (including infection, perforation, pain equal to or above 7/10 on VAS)
ii. all surveys of patients’ outpatient hysteroscopy experiences. Are all your patients allowed to complete the satisfaction survey at home? Y/N
iii. the number of your patients who had a) GA, b) spinal anaesthesia, c) monitored procedural IV sedation, d) local anaesthetic, e) no anaesthetic
iv. the % of your a) diagnostic hysteroscopies, b) operative hysteroscopies that were done in outpatients. Did your Trust meet the Best Practice Target % Tariff for each of these years? Y/N
4. i. Is local anaesthetic available in all your outpatient hysteroscopy clinics? Y/N
ii. Is Entonox available in all your outpatient hysteroscopy clinics? Y/N
5. Are all your hysteroscopy patients (including See & Treat/One Stop Shop/Late Cancellations) offered i. local anaesthetic? Y/N
ii. GA? Y/N
iii. spinal anaesthesia? Y/N
iv. safely monitored IV sedation? Y/N
6. Do you use electro-surgery in any of your outpatients clinics? Y/N If so, do you always use the lowest power setting? Y/N
7. What type and diameter of scopes do you use in a) outpatients, b) for GA patients? Rigid, semi-rigid, flexible?
8. What is the minimum training and accreditation (e.g. RCOG ATSM) that all your NEW hysteroscopists must have?
9. What % diagnostic outpatient hysteroscopy/biopsy patients had an incomplete procedure which was repeated with epidural, GA or sedation?
10. Does your Trust have a psychosexual counselling service for PTSD caused by severe procedural pain?

Yours faithfully,

Katharine Tylko-Hill

FOI, Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Dear Katharine

 

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request.  We are currently
collating the information you have requested and you will receive a
response by 23 May 2017.

 

Kind regards    

 

Gill
     

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  Corporate Support Officer

Dorset County Hospital Trust Headquarters

Williams Avenue Dorset County Hospital

Dorchester  

Dorset  (     Tel:      01305 25 5419

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FOI, Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Dear Katherine

 

Please find attached our response to your Freedom of Information request. 
We value your feedback on our Freedom of Information (FOI) service.  We
would be grateful if you could take five minutes to complete our brief
online survey:

 

[1]http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RSC2Y6F

 

Kind regards    

 

Gill
     

[2]cid:image001.png@01D09232.1736C5B0 Gill Foott

  Corporate Support Officer

Dorset County Hospital Trust Headquarters

Williams Avenue Dorset County Hospital

Dorchester  

Dorset  (     Tel:      01305 25 5419

DT1 2JY * Email:  [3][email address]

  8 Web:    [4]www.dchft.nhs.uk

[5]cid:image002.jpg@01D15822.D2D6A630                   

 

 

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