Sunday 05 May 2024
Internal Reference Number: FOI_6570
Date Request Received: 29/04/2022 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 03/05/2022 00:00:00
This response was sent via: By Email
Request Summary: Covid 19 precautions information
Request Category: Private Individuals
| Question Number 1: In regards to the following years 2020, 2021 & 2022 Can Clinical Manager/Administrative personnel refuse a patient treatment/surgery under any reason? And who makes a decision for denying treatment/surgery? | |
| Answer To Question 1: Decisions about the appropriateness of surgery are made my the clinician responsible for the care of an individual patients. Decisions about prioritisation of surgery and postponement of surgery are sometimes made by senior operational management in conjunction with clinical teams and senior clinical leaders within the Trust. | |
| Question Number 2: In regards to the following years 2020, 2021 & 2022 Can the hospital refuse a patient treatment/surgery for refusing to do a PCR test? | |
| Answer To Question 2: The Trust has no policy to prevent patients who do not wish to (or cannot) perform a COVID test form accessing surgical treatment. The Trusts policy is to provide treatments to patients in this situation with the extra precautions provided for individuals who have COVID -this means that individual patients unwilling or unable to perform a pre op COVID test may have non-urgent surgery postponed if clinically appropriate to ensure the safety or staff and other patients. | |
| Question Number 3: In regards to the following years 2020, 2021 & 2022 How many patients have been refused treatment or surgery for not doing a PCR test? | |
| Answer To Question 3: No patients have been refused surgery because they have been unable or unwilling to carry out a COVID test The Trusts policy is to provide treatments to patients in this situation with the extra precautions provided for individuals who have COVID -this means that individual patients unwilling or unable to perform a pre-op COVID test may have non-urgent surgery postponed if clinically appropriate to ensure the safety or staff and other patients. | |
| Question Number 4: In regards to the following years 2020, 2021 & 2022 Can the hospital refuse a patient treatment or surgery for refusing to do a LFT test? | |
| Answer To Question 4: The Trust has no policy to prevent patients who do not wish to (or cannot) perform a COVID test form accessing surgical treatment. The Trusts policy is to provide treatments to patients in this situation with the extra precautions provided for individuals who have COVID -this means that individual patients unwilling or unable to perform a pre-operative COVID test may have non-urgent surgery postponed if clinically appropriate to ensure the safety or staff and other patients. | |
| Question Number 5: In regards to the following years 2020, 2021 & 2022 How many patients have been refused treatment or surgery for not doing a LFT test? | |
| Answer To Question 5: No patients have been refused surgery because they have been unable or unwilling to carry out a COVID test | |
| Question Number 6: In regards to the following years 2020, 2021 & 2022 Can the hospital refuse a patient treatment/surgery for refusing to wear a face mask? | |
| Answer To Question 6: In line with government guidance to protect the public, our staff and other patients everyone is required to wear a face-mask in the Trust. We recognise that some individuals have legitimate reasons for not wearing masks and the Trust would not refuse to provide treatment to anyone choosing not to comply with this guidance. | |
| Question Number 7: In regards to the following years 2020, 2021 & 2022 How many patients have been refused treatment or surgery for not wearing a face mask? | |
| Answer To Question 7: No patients have been refused surgery because they have been unable or unwilling to wear a face-mask | |
| Question Number 8: In regards to the following years 2020, 2021 & 2022 Can the hospital refuse a patient treatment or surgery for not wearing a visor? | |
| Answer To Question 8: The Trust has no policy for the requirement of visors for patients requiring any form of treatment | |
| Question Number 9: In regards to the following years 2020, 2021 & 2022 How many patients have been refused treatment or surgery for not wearing a visor? | |
| Answer To Question 9: No patients have been refused surgery because they have been unable or unwilling to wear a Visor | |
| Question Number 10: In regards to the following years 2020, 2021 & 2022 What is the difference between a face mask and a visor? | |
| Answer To Question 10: SFT follow with UKSHA/NHSE PPE guidance that focuses on the use of masks to reduce transmission by capturing respiratory droplets , visors are primarily used for eye protection . | |
| Question Number 11: In regards to the following years 2020, 2021 & 2022 Can the hospital refuse a patient denial for a chaperone? And if so, Why? What is the protocol for access for a chaperone? | |
| Answer To Question 11: The Trust has a clear policy supporting the right of any patient to have a chaperone during any consultation, clinical or care intervention. Under certain circumstances the Trust reserves a right to provide a member of staff as a chaperone to fulfil our duty to protect patients and provide optimal care. | |
| Question Number 12: In regards to the following years 2020, 2021 & 2022 If a patient is staying in hospital, can the hospital deny visitation for this patient? If so, Why? What is the protocol for a patient to seek visitation rights? | |
| Answer To Question 12: During the COVID pandemic the Trusts visiting policy has been regularly updated to reflect Government and NHS policy and guidance. At some points during 2020, 2021 and 2022 in person visiting has been suspended in order to protect the public, patients. During these times the Trust has supported patients families and carers as much as possible to access video or phone communication. | |
| Question Number 13: In regards to the following years 2020, 2021 & 2022 What are the protocols whereby the patient is refused treatment or surgery, who makes these decisions? And what happens next? | |
| Answer To Question 13: Decisions about the appropriateness of treatment or surgery are made by clinicians responsible for the care of an individual patient on clinical grounds. The timing of such treatment is continually assessed and supported by senior operational and clinical leaders within the Trust. Patients who have treatment postponed for operational reasons are contacted directly and a new date for their procedure is provided as soon as possible. | |
| Question Number 14: In regards to the following years 2020, 2021 & 2022 Every time a patient is referred to your hospital, how much money does the hospital receive for that patient? | |
| Answer To Question 14: The Trust does not receive payment for referrals into the Trust | |
| Question Number 15: Would you also send the policies and procedures you have in place for face covering, visor, PCR testing, Lateral Flow Testing. | |
| Answer To Question 15: As part of the national incident response these policies are marked “official sensitive” | |
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