FOI Request
- Disclosure ID
- FOI/03196
- Request Date
- July 2, 2019
- Subject
- Surgical Trays
- Description
1). How many surgical admissions occur each year?
2). What is the average number of trays per operation?
3). What machines are required to reprocess surgical trays? How many?
4). How many operations are canceled each year due to inadequate decontamination/sterilization?
5).How many hospital-acquired infections occur each year due to inadequate decontamination/sterilization?
6). How much does inadequate decontamination/sterilization cost each year?
- Response
1).
Elective Non Elective 2016 5559 15550 2017 4936 13916 2018 4655 11191 2). Between April 2018 and March 2019 the average number of trays used per operation was 4, although this figure varies with each operation.
3). Washer Disinfectors x 6 & Autoclaves x 4
4). 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)).
5). 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)).
6). 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)).