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FOI Request

Disclosure ID

FOI/02572

Request Date

July 18, 2018

Subject

Spinal Cord Stimulation Procedures

Description

1. Does your trust use a standard pre-designed consent form (or set of consent forms) for any of the spinal cord stimulation (SCS) procedures listed in the table below? Please specify for which of these procedures such a consent form exists.
2. If your trust does use standard consent forms, please provide me with digital copies of the relevant forms and make clear what procedures each consent form is used for.
3. Please provide digital copies of any patient information leaflets or guidance about SCS that is given to patients by your trust.
4. With reference to your trust’s coding database, please tell me how many of each of the following SCS procedures were performed by your trust in each of the years 2016 and 2017 – the relevant OPCS 4.x codes are:
   

   OPCS4.2 Code	OPCS4.3 Code	OPCS4.4 Code	OPCS4.5 Code	OPCS4.6 Code	OPCS4.7 Code	OPCS4.8 Code	Description
   A48.3	A48.3	A48.3	A48.3	A48.3	A48.3	A48.3	Insertion of neurostimulator adjacent to spinal cord
   A48.4	A48.4	A48.4	A48.4	A48.4	A48.4	A48.4	Attention to neurostimulator adjacent to spinal cord NEC
   A48.4	A48.5	A48.5	A48.5	A48.5	A48.5	A48.5	Reprogramming of neurostimulator adjacent to spinal cord
   A48.4 + Y03.7	A48.6	A48.6	A48.6	A48.6	A48.6	A48.6	Removal of neurostimulator adjacent to spinal cord
   A48.3	A48.7	A48.7	A48.7	A48.7	A48.7	A48.7	Insertion of neurostimulator electrodes into the spinal cord

    

    

5. Which OPCS coding version (or version of whatever other coding system) is used by your trust (e.g., OPCS 4.5)?

Response

1. We do not perform any of these procedures at our trust.
2. We do not perform any of these procedures at our trust.
3. We do not perform any of these procedures at our trust.
4. We do not perform any of these procedures at our trust.
5. OPCS4.8

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