Use of Genomics laboratory hubs
Dear Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust,
I am researching the use of NHS England's seven Genomic Laboratory Hubs (GLHs) by a selection of hospitals in England.
For the period 1st January to 31st June 2024 please provide the following information.
1. How many individual requests were sent by your trust to GLHs. (We do not wish you to incur additional work, and are looking for readily available information. For the purpose of this research, we are defining one request as a request for testing for an individual patient, which may comprise one or more samples of tissue or blood sent at the same time. If you record tests/ requests in a different way, please provide information readily available and state the definition used)
2. How many requests (using the same definition as 1) for tests which are included within the National Genomic Test Directory were
a) processed by your own laboratory
b) sent to another NHS laboratory (not part of a GLH)
c) sent to a commercial laboratory
3. If the answer to 2c is greater than 0, please list the three laboratories to which you sent the most requests, with the number of requests sent to each in the period
4. Do you measure the average turnaround time for requests sent to GLHs?
5. If the answer to 4 is yes, please provide the number of percentage of tests where the turnaround time is
a) less than 7 days
b) 8 days to 2 weeks
c) 15 days to 4 weeks
d) over 4 weeks
6. Are concerns relating to turnaround times from GLH's mentioned in any risks on any risk registers within your organisation
Yours faithfully,
Richard Brown
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Good Morning
Our divisional leads require some clarification regarding your FOI request
. Please see below
"Please see below requests for clarification. NUH is a subcontractor to
the Cambridge GLH and so are part of the GLH technically but we are
assuming this relates to
(a)tests sent to Cambridge in its capacity as the GLH rather than sending
other pathology samples to Cambridge as a referral unit?
(b) Can you confirm the period for which the data is required?
(c) For the question - How many requests (using the same definition as 1)
for tests which are included within the National Genomic Test Directory
were: a) processed by your own laboratory service is asking do they want
to know what we have tested at NUH or what we have sent away or both. "
Regards
Melanie Blagg
Data Protection and Security Co-ordinator
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Data Protection Office, Digital and Information
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Nottingham
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