Internal Reference Number: FOI_8987
Date Request Received: 21/10/2025 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 08/12/2025 00:00:00
This response was sent via: By Email
Request Summary: Surgical Delays Caused by Missing, Late, or Unsterilised Instruments
Request Category: Companies
| Question Number 1: I am writing under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request information relating to surgical delays caused by equipment or instrument availability within your Trust. This request aims to understand how logistical and operational factors 鈥� rather than clinical causes 鈥� may contribute to surgery scheduling challenges across the NHS. Please provide data for 2024, and any available for 2025 to date for the following: Surgical delays 鈥� The number of operations delayed or cancelled where the recorded cause included: o Missing or incomplete surgical instrument sets o Late arrival of loan sets or consignment trays from suppliers o Equipment or instrument sterilisation or cleaning faults o Missing documentation, instructions for use (IFUs), or traceability records If your Trust does not record these categories specifically, please provide the nearest equivalent data (e.g. 鈥渆quipment failure,鈥� 鈥渋nstrument availability,鈥� or 鈥渢heatre preparation delays鈥�). | |
| Answer To Question 1: Please see our response to Q1 attached. This covers all of 2024 and January - July 2025. To accompany this answer to question 1 please also see the documents listed below:  13307 - FOI_8987 - Surgical Delays Caused by Missing, Late, or Unsterilised Instruments.xlsx | |
| Question Number 2: Delay duration 鈥� Where available, please provide the average or total delay time (e.g. hours or days) attributed to these causes. | |
| Answer To Question 2: This is not available. | |
| Question Number 3: Reporting system 鈥� If available, please confirm which system(s) your Trust uses to record and categorise surgical delays (e.g. Datix, ORMIS, Bluespier, or another). | |
| Answer To Question 3: The Trust used Theatre man until 19/08/2025, from this date we now use Theatreman Aqua | |
| Question Number 4: Internal reports 鈥� If available, please share any summaries, reports, or audits produced since 2023 that discuss equipment-related surgical delays, loan set management, or theatre efficiency | |
| Answer To Question 4: There are not any standard/regularly produced reports or audits on equipment-related surgical delays specifically that we can share with you. As and when reports of this nature are requested these are produced by the Information Services team who have responsibility for business intelligence and Trust reporting.鈥� | |
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