FOI Request
- Disclosure ID
- FOI 02607
- Request Date
- July 31, 2018
- Subject
- Foreign Objects In Rectums / Colons
- Description
I am writing to you under the FOI act 2000 to politely request the following information from your NHS trust.
I would like to know the following please:
- How much does it cost your NHS trust to surgically remove a foreign object from a patient?
- How many patients have had foreign objects surgically removed from their bodies across your NHS trust from July 2017 to July 2018?
- How many of those patients had sex toys surgically removed from their bodies between July 2017 and July 2018?
- How many patients have attended A&E requiring medical assistance to remove a sex toy / sex instrument from their bodies between July 2017 and July 2018?
- Response
- Due to the potential diversity of foreign objects and procedures for surgically removing foreign objects from patients, we are unable to provide a single figure in answer to this question. To do so would require a manual trawl through paper records which would constitute a disproportionate effort to retrieve and would exceed 18 hours. This information is therefore exempt on the grounds of cost (Section 12(1)).
However, we can provide a link (below) to the NHS National Tariff workbook for standardised prices for OP attendances, operations and inpatient stays.
https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/national-tariff-1719/
- There have been 44 procedures performed in our Trust to remove foreign objects from bodies.
- We do not routinely record the requested data and to determine if we hold this information would require a manual trawl through paper records. This would constitute a disproportionate effort to retrieve and would exceed 18 hours. This information is therefore exempt on the grounds of cost (Section 12(1)).
- We do not routinely record the requested data and to determine if we hold this information would require a manual trawl through paper records. This would constitute a disproportionate effort to retrieve and would exceed 18 hours. This information is therefore exempt on the grounds of cost (Section 12(1)).