Internal Reference Number: FOI_8636
Date Request Received: 09/05/2025 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 04/06/2025 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in FY 2024-25
Request Category: Companies
| Question Number 1: I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from your Trust. I am enquiring about catheter-associated urinary tract infections; please may you provide me with answers to the following: Please provide the information in an Excel spreadsheet. How many patients received a urinary catheter in the 2024-25 financial year? | |
| Answer To Question 1: 214 distinct patients | |
| Question Number 2: How many Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTIs) were recorded in the 2024-25 financial year? | |
| Answer To Question 2: 214 | |
| Question Number 3: How many urinary tract infections (UTIs) were recorded in the 2024-25 financial year? | |
| Answer To Question 3: 2144 UTIs were coded | |
| Question Number 4: What was the total cost of urinary tract infections in the 2024-25 financial year? | |
| Answer To Question 4: It is not possible to answer this question in light of the answers to questions 5,6 and 7. | |
| Question Number 5: How many prescriptions were dispensed in relation to Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in the 2024-25 financial year? | |
| Answer To Question 5: Pharmacy are unable to answer this FOI for the following reasons Q5 not able to link a diagnosis of CAUTIs to a prescription written for an antibiotic. Not sure that coding would be able to help as they probably do not code to the level of CAUTI. Even if they were able to give a list of patients with a CAUTI it would be too time consuming to check every patients record to see if they were prescribed antibiotics. | |
| Question Number 6: How many patients received antibiotics in relation to Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in the 2024-25 financial year? | |
| Answer To Question 6: Pharmacy are unable to answer this FOI for the following reasons Q6 not able to link a diagnosis of CAUTIs to a prescription written for an antibiotic. Not sure that coding would be able to help as they probably do not code to the level of CAUTI. Even if they were able to give a list of patients with a CAUTI it would be too time consuming to check every patients record to see if they were prescribed antibiotics. | |
| Question Number 7: How many patients received two or more antibiotics in relation to a single Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection in the 2024-25 financial year? | |
| Answer To Question 7: Pharmacy are unable to answer this FOI for the following reasons Q7 not able to link a diagnosis of CAUTIs to a prescription written for an antibiotic. Not sure that coding would be able to help as they probably do not code to the level of CAUTI. Even if they were able to give a list of patients with a CAUTI it would be too time consuming to check every patients record to see if they were prescribed antibiotics. | |
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