Wednesday 03 July 2024
Internal Reference Number: FOI_7930
Date Request Received: 13/05/2024 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 28/05/2024 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Myeloma Service Provision
Request Category: Researcher
| Question Number 1: I am requesting the following information on local healthcare and support service provision for multiple myeloma patients as part of a wider project (funded by Myeloma UK). Please provide the following information: As of 1 Jan 2024: • Total population size served by Regional Board • Number of hospitals providing oncology services • Total number of consultant haematologists employees; specialist haematology registrars employed; consultant haematologists specialising in multiple myeloma; haematology clinical nurse specialists employed and multiple myeloma clinical nurse specialists. | |
| Answer To Question 1: • Total population size served by Regional Board - We are part of the Bath and North-East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Integrated Care Board (BSW ICB), and deliver a broad range of clinical care to approximately 270,000 people in Wiltshire, Dorset and Hampshire including: • Emergency and planned inpatient services • Day case services • Outpatient services • Women & Newborn and Paediatric services • Diagnostic and therapeutic services • Specialist rehabilitation, plastics and burns services - Specialities such as burns, plastic surgery, cleft lip and palate and our Wessex Rehab unit, extend to a much wider population of more than three million people. • Number of hospitals providing oncology services - We are part of the Bath and North-East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Integrated Care Board (BSW ICB), and deliver a broad range of clinical care to approximately 270,000 people in Wiltshire, Dorset and Hampshire including: • Emergency and planned inpatient services • Day case services • Outpatient services • Women & Newborn and Paediatric services • Diagnostic and therapeutic services • Specialist rehabilitation, plastics and burns services - Specialities such as burns, plastic surgery, cleft lip and palate and our Wessex Rehab unit, extend to a much wider population of more than three million people. • Total number of consultant haematologists employees; specialist haematology registrars employed; consultant haematologists specialising in multiple myeloma; haematology clinical nurse specialists employed and multiple myeloma clinical nurse specialists. - For SDH; 7 Haem consultants, 2 Sp Registrars, 4 consultants that specialise in myeloma, 3 Haem CNSs, no myeloma CNSs. | |
| Question Number 2: During 2023 (1 Jan – 31 Dec), please provide the: • Total number of multiple myeloma (MM) cases diagnosed (Please state which code(s) were used) • If known, how many people were diagnosed with smouldering multiple myeloma? • How many in-person haematology-based consultation/telephone haematology-based consultations/ video haematology-based consultation took place for people diagnosed with MM | |
| Answer To Question 2: Please see our response to this question in the Excel spreadsheet attached. Please note, we have interpreted the final part of this question as asking about method of consultation for when patients are diagnosed. To accompany this answer to question 2 please also see the documents listed below:  FOI_7930 Q2 - Myeloma Service Provision .xlsx | |
| Question Number 3: During 2023 (1 Jan – 31 Dec): • Were multiple myeloma (MM) patients discussed/reviewed at a MM specific MDT or general haematology MDT? • How frequently did MDT meetings meet? • What percentage of MM patients diagnosed in 2023 were reviewed/discussed at a MDT? • Which professionals/disciplines are represented on MDT meetings for MM? • What supportive and palliative care services are available for MM patients? | |
| Answer To Question 3: • Were multiple myeloma (MM) patients discussed/reviewed at a MM specific MDT or general haematology MDT? - General Haematology MDT • How frequently did MDT meetings meet? - Weekly. • What percentage of MM patients diagnosed in 2023 were reviewed/discussed at a MDT? - 85.7% • Which professionals/disciplines are represented on MDT meetings for MM? - Haem consultants, Radiology consultants, Pathology consultants, Genetics staff, CNSs and Sp registrars • What supportive and palliative care services are available for MM patients? - MM patients have access to Clinical Psychology, Palliative care (if in-patient), dieticians, Cancer Support Worker, Cancer pre-hab/re-hab, Diabetes Nurse Specialists. | |
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