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FOI Request

Disclosure ID
FOI 02581
Request Date
July 23, 2018
Subject
Consultations Lengths
Description

Would it be possible to request a data set about;

1. The breakdown of types of doctor/patient consultations within the hospital.

2. The rough number of consultations per clinician / department / at different levels seniority.

3.  The average length of NHS consultations between clinicians and patients for each level of interaction.

Segmented down; (if possible)
a. How long the clinicians spends reviewing the patient’s medical recordb. How long the clinicians spends discussing the diagnosis with the patient

In, ideally, a format similar to;

NHS Improvement (2017) Reference costs [average unit cost to the NHS of providing defined services to NHS patients in England in a given financial year. They show how NHS providers spend money to provide healthcare to patients]
https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/reference-costs/
Data Sets;
“National Schedule of reference costs 1”

I am predominantly interested in what happens during the diagnosis procedure within different departments and the segmented time allocations of each interaction.

I appreciate this information may be too fine-grained so any information about the diagnosis procedure will be helpful!

If you would be able to provide a set outlining consultation times or be able to point me in the right direction I would be extremely appreciative.

Response

1. This information is not held in a format that is easily accessible as it is held by several departments and not recorded centrally. To collate this would take longer than the appropriate limit specified in regulations for an NHS Trust of £450. This figure represents the estimated cost of one person spending 18 hours in determining whether the Trust holds the information, and locating, retrieving and extracting the information. Therefore, this information is exempt on the grounds of cost (Section 12(1)).

2. This information is not held in a format that is easily accessible as it is held by several departments and not recorded centrally. To collate this would take longer than the appropriate limit specified in regulations for an NHS Trust of £450. This figure represents the estimated cost of one person spending 18 hours in determining whether the Trust holds the information, and locating, retrieving and extracting the information. Therefore, this information is exempt on the grounds of cost (Section 12(1)).

3. This information is not held in a format that is easily accessible as it is held by several departments and not recorded centrally. To collate this would take longer than the appropriate limit specified in regulations for an NHS Trust of £450. This figure represents the estimated cost of one person spending 18 hours in determining whether the Trust holds the information, and locating, retrieving and extracting the information. Therefore, this information is exempt on the grounds of cost (Section 12(1)).

3a. This information is not held in a format that is easily accessible as it is held by several departments and not recorded centrally. To collate this would take longer than the appropriate limit specified in regulations for an NHS Trust of £450. This figure represents the estimated cost of one person spending 18 hours in determining whether the Trust holds the information, and locating, retrieving and extracting the information. Therefore, this information is exempt on the grounds of cost (Section 12(1)).

3b. This information is not held in a format that is easily accessible as it is held by several departments and not recorded centrally. To collate this would take longer than the appropriate limit specified in regulations for an NHS Trust of £450. This figure represents the estimated cost of one person spending 18 hours in determining whether the Trust holds the information, and locating, retrieving and extracting the information. Therefore, this information is exempt on the grounds of cost (Section 12(1)).

 

 

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