FOI Request
- Disclosure ID
- FOI/02728
- Request Date
- September 24, 2018
- Subject
- Thumb Arthritis
- Description
Question 1
Please could you send us your current policies for treatment (surgical and/or injection) of base of thumb arthritis including any funding criteria.
Question 2
Please could you send us any older policies including funding criteria for treatment of base of thumb arthritis from 1998 to present day.
Question 3
If not included in the policy what criteria is used to categorise severity of base of thumb arthritis into mild moderate or severe.
- Response
1 Please could you send us your current policies for treatment (surgical and/or injection) of base of thumb arthritis including any funding criteria. - Brace
- Steroid injection
- If the above fails – trapeziectomy +/- tendon interposition and ligament reconstruction
2 Please could you send us any older policies including funding criteria for treatment of base of thumb arthritis from 1998 to present day? - None
3 If not included in the policy what criteria are used to categorise severity of base of thumb arthritis into mild moderate or severe. - Plain x-ray changes