FOI_7329

Internal Reference Number: FOI_7329

Date Request Received: 26/07/2023 00:00:00

Date Request Replied To: 14/08/2023 00:00:00

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Request Summary: Breast ~Cancer screening

Request Category: Companies


Question Number 1: How many patients have been screened for breast cancer within your organisation in the last 12 months (part of the National screening programme)?

Answer To Question 1: Please see our response to questions 1-4 of this FOI in the Excel spreadsheet attached. To accompany this answer to question 1 please also see the documents listed below: FOI_7329 - Breast Cancer Screening.xlsx

Question Number 2: How many patients attended symptomatic clinics (patients referred on a 2 week wait pathway) for potential breast cancer within your organisation within the last 12 months?

Answer To Question 2: See spreadsheet attached

Question Number 3: Over the last 12 months, how many patients has your organisation scanned or screened for breast cancer with the following modalities? 1. Mammography 2. Tomosynthesis 3. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) 4. Computerised Tomography (CT)

Answer To Question 3: See spreadsheet attached

Question Number 4: How many mammography examinations have taken place in the last 12 months? • How many of the above patients received contrast media enhanced mammography?

Answer To Question 4: See spreadsheet attached

Question Number 5: How many individual devices does your organisation have for patients to access within your Trust? 1. Standard Mammography 2. Digital Mammography 3. Tomosynthesis 4. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) 5. Computerised Tomography (CT)

Answer To Question 5: Standard Mammography - 0 Digital Mammography - 1 Tomosynthesis - 1 Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) - 2 Computerised Tomography (CT) - 2

Question Number 6: How many private providers offer access for potential NHS breast cancer patients within your catchment area to the following modalities? 1. Mammography 2. Tomosynthesis 3. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) 4. Computerised Tomography (CT) If yes to the above question, please can you name those providers?

Answer To Question 6: This is not applicable to this Trust
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