Internal Reference Number: FOI_8744
Date Request Received: 03/07/2025 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 29/08/2025 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Wound Care Services
Request Category: Companies
| Question Number 1: Please provide the total number of patients treated where wound care represented the primary reason for admission, in the financial years i) 2021-22, ii) 2022-23, iii) 2023-24, iv) 2024-25. If available, please provide a breakdown of inpatients compared to outpatients/community visits. | |
| Answer To Question 1: Please see our response to Q1, 5 and 6 in the attached file. Please note, Q1 relates to inpatient admissions coded with a relevant diagnosis code only. Outpatient attendances are not routinely coded. To accompany this answer to question 1 please also see the documents listed below:  13110 - FOI_8744 - Wound Care Services.xlsx | |
| Question Number 2: Please provide the number of Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) staff delivering wound care services within your organisation, broken down by professional role (e.g. community nurse, tissue viability nurse, podiatrist), in the financial years i) 2021-22, ii) 2022-23, iii) 2023-24, iv) 2024-25. | |
| Answer To Question 2: i) 2021-22, FTE X 2 Clinical Nurse Specialist for Tissue Viability and Pressure Ulcer Outreach Service, 1 X FTE Lead Nurse Specialist Tissue Viability and Pressure Ulcer Outreach Service. ii) 2022-23, WTE X 1 Lead Nurse Specialist Tissue Viability and Pressure Ulcer Outreach Service, WTE X 1 Clinical Nurse Specialist for Tissue Viability and Pressure Ulcer Outreach Service. 2 x 0.6 WTE Clinical Nurse Specialist for Tissue Viability and Pressure Ulcer Outreach Service iii) 2023-24, WTE X 1 Lead Nurse Specialist Tissue Viability and Pressure Ulcer Outreach Service, WTE X 1 Clinical Nurse Specialist for Tissue Viability and Pressure Ulcer Outreach Service. 2 x 0.7 WTE Clinical Nurse Specialist for Tissue Viability and Pressure Ulcer Outreach Service iv) 2024-25. WTE X 1 Lead Nurse Specialist Tissue Viability and Pressure Ulcer Outreach Service, WTE X 1 Clinical Nurse Specialist for Tissue Viability and Pressure Ulcer Outreach Service. 2 x 0.7 WTE Clinical Nurse Specialist for Tissue Viability and Pressure Ulcer Outreach Service. | |
| Question Number 3: Please provide the number of Tissue Viability Nurses (TVNs) employed by your Trust, in the financial years i) 2021-22, ii) 2022-23, iii) 2023-24, iv) 2024-25. | |
| Answer To Question 3: i) 2021-22, X 3 ii) 2022-23, X 3 iii) 2023-24, X 4 iv) 2024-25. X 4 | |
| Question Number 4: What is the average waiting time for an initial wound care assessment in the financial years i) 2021-22, ii) 2022-23, iii) 2023-24, iv) 2024-25? | |
| Answer To Question 4: The guidelines are that this should be done by the wards within 6 hours of in-patient admission, as part of the patients skin assessment. For TVN wound assessment within 3 working days. | |
| Question Number 5: What is the average waiting time for a referral to a specialist tissue viability nurse in the financial years i) 2021-22, ii) 2022-23, iii) 2023-24, iv) 2024-25? | |
| Answer To Question 5: Please see attached spreadsheet | |
| Question Number 6: Please provide the total number of patients referred from A&E or minor injury/urgent care units to any form of wound care service, in the financial years i) 2021-22, ii) 2022-23, iii) 2023-24, iv) 2024-25. Please provide the total number of A&E and minor injury/urgent care unit admissions in each financial year for comparison. | |
| Answer To Question 6: Please see attached spreadsheet | |
| Question Number 7: If available, please provide a breakdown of the nature of wounds or conditions most commonly referred to wound care services (e.g. pressure ulcers, leg ulcers, post-operative wounds, diabetic foot ulcers, traumatic wounds). | |
| Answer To Question 7: Pressure Ulcers are most commonly referred to the Tissue Viability Service. | |
| Question Number 8: 8. Please provide total spend on wound management dressings via Part IXA of the drug tariff (see link below), in the financial years i) 2021-22, ii) 2022-23, iii) 2023-24, iv) 2024-25. https://www.drugtariff.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/#/00726198-DD/DD00726112/Part%20IXA-%20Wound%20Management%20Dressings | |
| Answer To Question 8: We do not hold this information in a reportable format. | |
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