FOI Request
- Disclosure ID
- FOI/03529
- Request Date
- January 22, 2020
- Subject
- Vaping Related Admissions
- Description
1). Can you specify how many patients have been admitted by your Trust’s A&E department as a result of vaping fluids laced with either cannabis, or derivatives like tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), or Spice and or similar synthetic cannabinoids, in the in each of the last five calendar years.
2). Can you also specify the total number of patients admitted as a result of vaping standard fluids, eg tobacco derivatives.
3). Can you also break this down by gender and the following age brackets: Under 16, Under 18, Under 25 and 26 and over.
- Response
1). We do not routinely record this information, to retrieve it would require a manual trawl of patient case notes which would exceed 18 hours. This information is therefore exempt on the grounds of cost (Section 12(1)).
2). As above.
3). As above.