Outpatient hysteroscopy/biopsy - Pain Control and Patient Choice

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Katharine Tylko-Hill

Dear Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh 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

Freedom of Information Act, Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust

Dear Katharine

Thank you for your application for information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 received 25^th April 2017

We are currently looking into the questions you have raised and will
respond to you from the Chief Executive within the Freedom of Information
deadline of 20 working days. The response due date for this FOI request is
24^th May 2017.   The Trust reference number for your request is 3930.

Please note if we are having difficulties retrieving the information you
require we will contact you and let you know. 

Kind Regards, 

Pamela Griffiths

Freedom of Information Team

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Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust
Wrightington Hospital

Hall Lane, Appley Bridge, Wigan, WN6 9EP

 

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Freedom of Information Act, Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust

Dear Katherine

 

Please accept my apologies for not yet responding to your request.

 

We are endeavouring to obtain the information for you and hope that the
lateness of our response doesn’t cause you any inconvenience.

 

We will reply as soon as possible.

 

Kind regards

 

 

Pamela Griffiths

Freedom of Information Team

t.    01257 25 6284

e.   [1][email address]

w.   [2]www.wwl.nhs.uk

 

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust
Wrightington Hospital

Hall Lane, Appley Bridge, Wigan, WN6 9EP

 

your hospitals, your health, our priority

 

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Pamela Griffiths

Freedom of Information Team

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Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust
Wrightington Hospital

Hall Lane, Appley Bridge, Wigan, WN6 9EP

 

your hospitals, your health, our priority

 

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