Dear Mr Roger Turnkey

Thank you for your request under the Freedom of Information Act.  The reference for this request is noted in the subject header above.

You will receive a response from us within 20 working days of receipt or an explanation as to why this is not possible. 

Yours sincerely

Freedom of Information Team
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

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Royal Free London Group Headquarters

Anne Bryans House

77 Fleet Road

London NW3 2QH

Dear Roger Turnkey

Thank you for submitting a request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.  Please find the response below.  This response
covers the hospitals and services managed by the Royal Free London NHS
Foundation Trust, namely the Royal Free Hospital, Barnet Hospital and
Chase Farm Hospital and associated group services.  

The response

 1. 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

Question 1

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust does hold this information.
However, the trust estimates that the cost of complying with your request
would exceed the appropriate limit. 

The trust’s reporting systems do not allow this information to be
extracted as a standalone piece of data. The trust started these scans in
September/October this year. However there is not an examination code on
the Electronic Patient Record yet so there is no way for these scans to be
automatically pulled from the data. Therefore there is no way to identify
the scans without manually reviewing patient files. The trust estimates
that a manual exercise to retrieve this information would exceed the
appropriate limit set out in section 12(1) (cost limit) of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. Currently this is set at £450 for the trust, which
equates to 18 hours or more of an officer’s time. 

Due to the nature of this request and the type of searches required, the
trust is unable to offer any Section 16 advice at this time as to how to
refine the request and bring it within the cost limit.

Your appeal rights

I hope that this response deals with your enquiry to your satisfaction,
however if not you have two options:

·         If you do not feel that we have provided you with the
information you requested, you may contact us again and state what
information you still require.  However if you ask for additional and/or
different information this will be dealt with as a new request.

·         All applicants have the right of appeal and can request an
internal review.  The internal review must be focused on the original
request and should identify how the trust’s response failed to answer your
information request and explain what you would like us to review.  Appeals
should be made in writing, within 40 working days of the date of the
response, and addressed to Mr Kevin Winter, Associate Director of
Information Governance, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust at
[2][email address] .

If you are not satisfied with the internal review, you can appeal to the
Information Commissioner.  The contact details are: Information
Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9
5AF, telephone 01625 545 700 or see [3]www.ico.org.uk

Open Government Licence

The trust allows you to reuse this information under the Open Government
Licence found at the following [4]link. 

Yours sincerely

Freedom of Information Team

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Anne Bryans House

77 Fleet Road, London, NW3 2QH

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