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I am conducting an analysis on the uptake of biosimilar use for Ustekinumab.

I would be grateful if you could please tell me how many patients were treated with Ustekinumab (for any disease) for the three-month period specified within the questions.

Q1 – How many patients were treated with Ustekinumab and its biosimilars (for any disease) from the start of October 2024 to the end of December 2024?
Please use the latest available 3 months if October to December is not available and specify which 3 months have been used.

Q2 – How many patients were treated with Stelara and its biosimilars (for any disease) in the months October 2024, November 2024, and December 2024?
Please use the latest available 3 months if October to December is not available and specify which 3 months have been used.

This FOI request seeks to establish the types, numbers, costs and timings of Helicobacter pylori tests performed by your Trust (or on its behalf) for primary care providers.

Question 1: Your Trust
In your response to this FOI request, could you please specify the identity of the parts of your Trust for which this FOI is relevant, and for which you are responding.

Question 2: Types of Tests and Providers Which types of tests relevant for the primary care diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori (e.g., stool antigen test, urea breath test, serology) do you perform within your Trust, or have performed on your behalf by a Third party? If outsourced, could you please specify the Third party used.

Question 3: Test Types and Volumes
How many Helicobacter pylori tests of each of these types were performed by your Trust or on its behalf in the most recent 12-month period, or other defined accounting period for which data is available?

Question 4: Requirements for in-Person Testing Which types of tests required the in-person attendance of the patient at your Trust or its Third-party provider for testing, how many such in-person attendances were required, and what was the average time taken between patient arrival and departure?

Question 5: Turnaround Time for Test Results Specifying each type of Helicobacter pylori test performed by your Trust, or on its behalf, could you please provide the average time (in hours) between receipt of sample to transmission of test result to the GP practice?

Question 6: Test costs and Tariffs
For each type of Helicobacter pylori test performed by your Trust or on its behalf, what is the total cost of performing the test to your Trust or the Third party provider (i.e., personnel, infrastructure, reagents and consumables, etc)? What does your Trust charge for performing each of these tests? Do these tests correspond to standard NHS tariffs or HRG codes? If so, could you please specify the tariff code and amount charged for each test type.

I would like to make a Freedom of Information request regarding the provision of vestibular assessment and rehabilitation by your Trust’s Falls Prevention Service (or equivalent).
World Guidelines for Falls Prevention and Management for Older Adults: A Global Initiative published in September 2022 (see below link) recommend routinely asking about dizziness and undertaking follow up assessment to identify causes, including vestibular. They reference the high incidence of BPPV and vestibular dysfunction in those presenting with falls and suggest managing vestibular issues should be considered as part of a multifactorial approach.
World Guidelines for Falls Prevention and Management for Older Adults: A Global Initiative | British Geriatrics Society (bgs.org.uk)

The request therefore has 3 specific questions:
1. Does your falls prevention team (or equivalent) have staff trained to assess and treat vestibular dysfunction?
2. If so, from which profession(s)?
3. Do you have any plans to develop this part of your falls prevention service?

I am submitting a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I would like to obtain data regarding the number of hospital admissions related to sunbed injuries. Specifically, I request the following information in whichever format is easiest to provide: SNOMED, ICD-11, or free text.

1. Sunbed Admissions (SNOMED)
The number of hospital admissions for patients presenting with sunbed-related injuries, classified under:
• 403588002 – Addiction to sunbed use (disorder)
• 242537009 – Exposure to man-made ultraviolet light (event)
• 466293001 – Ultraviolet tanning device (physical object)
If possible, please also include:
• Age group (e.g.: under 18, 18-24, 25-34, 35-44, 45-54, 55-64, 65-74, 75-84, 85-94, 95-100, over 100)
• Gender of the patient
• Brief description of the reason for admission
• Treatment received for the injury
2. Sunbed Admissions (ICD-11)
The number of hospital admissions for patients presenting with sunbed injuries, categorised under:
• EJ41 – Burn from exposure to artificial source of ultraviolet radiation
o EJ41.0 – Burn from exposure to therapeutic ultraviolet radiation
o EJ41.Y – Other specified burn from exposure to artificial source of ultraviolet radiation
o EJ41.Z – Burn from exposure to artificial source of ultraviolet radiation, unspecified
If possible, please also include:
• Age group (as above)
• Gender of the patient
• Brief description of the reason for admission
• Treatment received for the injury
3. Sunbed Admissions (Free Text)
The number of hospital admissions for patients presenting with sunbed injuries, provided in free text format.
If possible, please also include:
• Age group (as above)
• Gender of the patient
• Brief description of the reason for admission
• Treatment received for the injury
Timeframe
For each month over the past five years (2019–2024), please provide the total number of individuals recorded.

I am writing to formally request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
regarding the use of mechanical ventilation within your hospital trust, specifically for patients
undergoing an MRI scan and those requiring in-hospital transportation while intubated.
Please provide responses to the following questions:

1. What is the current policy for mechanical ventilation of patients undergoing an MRI scan
within your NHS trust?
2. Which department has the primary responsibility for overseeing the mechanical
ventilation of patients in the MRI suite? Is it the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) or the MRI
department?
3. Which mechanical ventilators are currently used when conducting MRI scans on patients
within your MRI department?
4. Please provide the make, model, and age of the current mechanical transport
ventilators used within your trust.
5. Could you list the specific MRI-compatible ventilators currently in use within your trust?
6. Please provide the contact details (name, job title, and email/telephone) of the lead
clinical person overseeing the use of mechanical transport ventilation within your trust.
7. Please provide the name and contact details of the technician responsible for
overseeing the usage and maintenance of these ventilators within your trust.

I am writing to submit a formal request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I kindly request the following details:

1. What are the biggest challenges your organisation currently faces in surveying and geospatial activity?

2. Are you confident in your full knowledge of the condition and knowledge of your impact on our local environment?

3. What are your organisation’s key strategic objectives for the next 12-24 months, and how does surveying and geospatial fit into these?

4. Please detail any planned development of sites or assets

5. Do you have a supplier for drainage mapping and surveying?

6. If so, please can you supply details of the contractual arrangements in place including date of award, details of any Framework used or link to the advertisement, contract value and duration

7. If not, please can you indicate what evaluation of the requirement for surveying and geospatial works have been undertaken?

8. Please share your planned procurement pipeline for surveying and geospatial works for the next 12 months

9. How do you engage with potential new suppliers—through open tenders, direct engagement, or supplier days?

10. Please can you confirm the individual responsible for managing your surveying and geospatial contracts or wider development contracts and provide their contact details and role title?

11. Please provide a list of frameworks that you procure related services through

12. Do you plan to repurpose any sites for renewable energy or solar farms?

13. Do you have any issues with subsidence in your properties? If so, where?

14. When developing/purchasing/selling a site, how do you verify that the boundaries are correct?

I would be most grateful if you would provide me, under the Freedom of Information Act, details in respect to the below.

1. Please list all providers that currently provide NHS audiology services in your region.

2. Please provide a copy of the current and most up to date service specification as contained in the relevant contract particulars for adult hearing care.

3. Please provide the date the adult hearing care service last was commissioned.

4. If adult hearing care is part of a wider service specification i.e. ENT, then please provide a copy of the current and most up to date service specification as contained in the relevant contract particulars.

5. If adult hearing care is part of a wider service specification i.e. ENT, then please provide the date this service was last commissioned.

Please provide information regarding Respiratory Services providing on call services i.e. physiotherapy and/or outreach department.

In the last 12 months – for both adult and children eating disorder services (both inpatient and outpatient) has your trust instructed someone to give a second opinion on a patient that is receiving treatment for an eating disorder?

In the last 12 months – for both adult and children eating disorder services (both inpatient and outpatient) has your trust refused to give a second opinion on a patient that is receiving treatment for an eating disorder?

In the last 12 months – for both adult and children eating disorder services (both inpatient and outpatient) where second opinions have happened, who did the trust instruct to give the second opinion?

Of the second opinions given in adult and children eating disorder services (both inpatient and outpatient) was the second opinion arranged by the clinical team or the patient/family?
Of the second opinions given in adult and children eating disorder services (both inpatient and outpatient) who paid for it?

Of the second opinions given in adult and children eating disorder services (both inpatient and outpatient) was it internal or external?

Of the second opinions given in adult and children eating disorder services (both inpatient and outpatient) what was the outcome?