FOI Request
- Disclosure ID
- FOI/01078
- Request Date
- July 6, 2016
- Subject
- Surgicval Site Infection
- Description
1/ The name of your trust.
2/ The names of the hospitals in your trust.
3/ During the financial years (2011-2012), (2012-1013), (2013-2014), (2014-2015), (2015-2016) what were the SSI rates (including superficial, deep incisional and organ-space infections) at your trust in the following surgical categories?
Breast surgery / Cardiac surgery / Cranial surgery / Gastric surgery / Large bowel surgery / Limb amputation / Small bowel surgery / Spinal surgery / Vascular surgery
4/ In the same periods and categories, what were the infections recorded?
5/ In the same periods and categories, how many patients in your Trust were readmitted to be treated for SSIs?
6/ In the same periods and categories, how much financial reimbursement for readmissions relating to SSIs has your Trust received?
7/ In the same periods and categories, how many patients died as a result of SSI – where it would be recorded as a cause or a contributory factor in a death certificate at your Trust?
8/ In the same periods, what was your budget for infection prevention and control?
- Response
1/ Blackpool Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust.
2/ Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Fleetwood Hospital and Clifton Hospital.
3/ Please see attached document.
4/ Please see attached document.
5/ 26
6/ None
7/ That information is not recorded
8/ There is no specific infection prevention budget but this is consumed within divisional budgets in providing equipment and resources to facilitate infection prevention processes and procedures.