FOI Request
- Disclosure ID
- FOI/02692
- Request Date
- September 4, 2018
- Subject
- Encephalitis
- Description
- How many encephalitis patients have been treated at Blackpool Victoria in the last five years? Please give a year by year figure from 2013.
- How many were initially diagnosed with another illness?
- If initially diagnosed with something other than encephalitis, what were they diagnosed as suffering from?
- What was the time from initial patient presentation to encephalitis diagnosis in each case?
- How many of those diagnosed with encephalitis died?
- How many survived and with what level of disability , e.g. slight, moderate or severe?
- How many received an MRI scan?
- Of those that received an MRI scan, what was the time difference between presentation and MRI?
- Response
1 How many encephalitis patients have been treated at Blackpool Victoria in the last five years? Please give a year by year figure from 2013? Years Patients Treated 2013 21 2014 38 2015 46 2016 29 2017 38 2018 to date 17 Grand Total 189 2 How many were initially diagnosed with another illness? Please see exemption below* 3 If initially diagnosed with something other than encephalitis, what were they diagnosed as suffering from? Please see exemption below* 4 How many of those diagnosed with encephalitis died? Please see exemption below* 5 How many survived and with what level of disability, e.g. slight, moderate or severe? Please see exemption below* 6 How many received an MRI scan? Years MRI Scans Recorded 2013 5 2014 6 2015 7 2016 3 2017 4 2018 to date 4 Grand Total 29 The figures provided above are for patients who received an MRI Scan during a spell in hospital. To provide further detail 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)).
7 Of those that received an MRI scan, what was the time difference between presentation and MRI? Please see exemption below* * 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)).