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FOI Request

Disclosure ID
FOI/02450
Request Date
May 18, 2018
Subject
Self-Funded Procedures (Hip/Knee Replacements & cataracts)
Description
  1. Please can you tell me whether the trust allows patients to self-fund for any of the following procedures?
    1. Hip replacements
    2. Knee replacements
    3. Cataracts
  2. If yes to all or part of question 1, please can you tell me how much the trust charges for:
    1. Hip replacements
    2. Knee replacements
    3. Cataracts
  3. Please state the average waiting time (as of May 2018) for patients who self-fund for
    1. Hip replacements
    2. Knee replacements
    3. Cataracts
  4. Please state the average waiting time (as of May 2018) for patients who have the following treatments provided by the NHS at the trust:
    1. Hip replacements
    2. Knee replacements
    3. Cataracts
  5. Has the trust always enabled patients to self-fund or has it only been introduced recently, eg past five years? I understand this may be difficult to answer
Response
  1. :-
    1. Yes
    2. Yes
    3. Yes
  2. :-
    1. From £9,000 hospital fee only (not including consultant and anaesthetist fee)
    2. From £9,000 hospital fee only (not including consultant and anaesthetist fee)
    3. From £856 hospital fee only (not including consultant and anaesthetist fee)
  3. Self-funding patients must be scheduled outside of NHS time as we cannot displace an NHS patient for a private patient. Due to the Trust still recovering from the winter bed pressures we would be unable to provide an average waiting time for this patient group.
  4. To determine if we hold this information and retrieve it would require a manual trawl of patient case notes which would exceed 18 hours. This information is therefore exempt on the grounds of cost (Section 12(1)).
  5. For over 20 years Blackpool Teaching Hospitals have provided Private Patient procedures for self-funding patients.
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