Corporate and Legal Affairs – Corporate and Committee Services

 

Our Reference: AM/FOI/45840

 

7 December 2022

 

Mr Roger Turnkey

[FOI #926419 email]

 

Dear Mr Turnkey

 

Request for Information

 

Thank you for your request for information, as received by University
Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust on 6 December 2022.

 

Within UHL NHS Trust, Freedom of Information Act requests are managed
centrally by the Corporate and Committee Services Team. 

 

The Trust will endeavour to provide a response within the required 20
working-day deadline from receipt.  I will, of course, keep you informed
should this not prove possible for any reason.  If we require any
clarification on your request, we will contact you as soon as possible. 

 

All requesters are advised that the Trust may make a charge for providing
the information to them, to cover the cost of photocopying, postage and
packaging etc – I confirm that where these costs are below £5.00 in total,
no charge will be made.  All requesters are also advised that there may
also be a charge payable to cover costs of locating the information they
have requested, as laid down in the Freedom of Information Act Regulations
published by the Government in December 2004.  Naturally, if such a charge
is to be applied to your request, you will be informed as soon as
possible.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

 

Alison Moss

Corporate and Committee Services Officer

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

 

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Corporate and Legal Affairs – Corporate and Committee Services

 

Our Reference: AM/FOI/45840

 

22 December 2022

 

Mr Roger Turnkey

[1][FOI #926419 email]

 

Dear Mr Turnkey

 

Request for Information

 

Thank you for your Freedom of Information Act (FOI) request, which was
received by University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust on 6 December 2022
and acknowledged on 7 December 2022.  For information, the University
Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust is one of the largest and busiest NHS
teaching Trusts in the country.  We have nearly 17,000 staff working
across our three hospitals, the Leicester Royal Infirmary, Glenfield
Hospital and Leicester General Hospital, serving the 1.2 million residents
of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, and a further two to three
million people from the rest of the UK who come to us for specialist
treatment.  Excluding Alliance activity, during 2019/20 we treated
1,483,800 patients – that’s 4,054 patients each day.

 

Following consultation with colleagues from the Clinical Management Group
for CSI (Clinical Support and Imaging),I confirm that the University
Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust holds information covered by your FOI
request.   In your Freedom of Information Act request, you asked for the
following information and the Trust’s response is provided following each
section of your request below:-  

 

Could you please let me know the patient numbers for the following
procedure codes and where applicable the hospital within your trust that
carries them out?

Please also break these down for 2020, 2021 and ytd 2022 or by months
should that would be easier.

Procedure code Description

XCEMB Contrast enhanced spectral mammography Both

XCEML             Contrast enhanced spectral mammography Lt

XCEMR            Contrast enhanced spectral mammography Rt

 

2020 2021 2022
XCEMB 74 103 92
XCEML 2 5 3
XCEMR 0 1 3
Total 76 109 98

 

I hope that this response is helpful and provides you with the information
requested. If you require any further assistance please do not hesitate to
contact me.  If you are dissatisfied with the Trust’s response, you can
contact the Director of Corporate and Legal Affairs
([2][email address]) to request a copy of UHL’s Freedom of
Information Act complaints procedure.

 

We must advise you that where we have provided information we have done so
subject to the provisions of the Re-use of Public Sector Information
Regulations 2015.  Accordingly, you must not re-use this information
without having the consent of the Trust.  Where the Trust is prepared to
provide its consent then it may levy a charge for doing so. Should you
wish to re-use documents provided then you must make your request in
writing stating your name and your address for correspondence together
with the document that you wish to re-use and the purpose for which the
information is to be re-used.

 

In the event that you remain dissatisfied with the way in which the Trust
has handled any complaint that you may wish to make, we would advise you
of your right to complain to the Information Commissioner at the
Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Tel: 0303 123 1113, website: [3]www.ico.org.uk 

 

Yours sincerely,

 

 

Alison Moss

Corporate and Committee Services Officer

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

 

 

From: FOI - Freedom of Information
Sent: 07 December 2022 15:09
To: Mr Roger Turnkey <[FOI #926419 email]>
Subject: Acknowledgement of FOI Request – Our Reference AM/FOI/45840

 

Corporate and Legal Affairs – Corporate and Committee Services

 

Our Reference: AM/FOI/45840

 

7 December 2022

 

Mr Roger Turnkey

[4][FOI #926419 email]

 

Dear Mr Turnkey

 

Request for Information

 

Thank you for your request for information, as received by University
Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust on 6 December 2022.

 

Within UHL NHS Trust, Freedom of Information Act requests are managed
centrally by the Corporate and Committee Services Team. 

 

The Trust will endeavour to provide a response within the required 20
working-day deadline from receipt.  I will, of course, keep you informed
should this not prove possible for any reason.  If we require any
clarification on your request, we will contact you as soon as possible. 

 

All requesters are advised that the Trust may make a charge for providing
the information to them, to cover the cost of photocopying, postage and
packaging etc – I confirm that where these costs are below £5.00 in total,
no charge will be made.  All requesters are also advised that there may
also be a charge payable to cover costs of locating the information they
have requested, as laid down in the Freedom of Information Act Regulations
published by the Government in December 2004.  Naturally, if such a charge
is to be applied to your request, you will be informed as soon as
possible.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

 

Alison Moss

Corporate and Committee Services Officer

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

 

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