FoI Number
2024-223
Subject
Vascular Access Devices
Date Received
19/07/2024
Request and Response
  1. Please can you kindly provide a purchasing export report detailing the following relevant to peripherally inserted central catheters:

Please see attached spreadsheet.

To ensure that we have not missed any information relevant to your request, we have included all entries related to catheters in the purchasing export.

Please note that purchase order reports do not contain brand information and so, in accordance with FOISA s 17(1), NHS Shetland confirms that it does not hold the information requested. We have included a Vendor name column in place of Brand.

  • Manufacturer
  • Brand
  • Product Code
  • Description
  • Volume (in pieces)
  1. Please could you provide this information for all supply routes (direct, NHS Supply Chain or other distributor) for the following time periods and name the files according to the year:
  • 1st January 2022 – 31st December 2022
  • 1st January 2023 – 31st December 2023
  • 1st January 2024 – 31st June 2024

N/A

  1. Do you use any of the following tip navigation systems and how many of each do you currently have within the Trust:

No

  • BD Sherlock 3CG
  • Vygon Pilot
  • Other (please state)
  1. In percentage terms, approximately what proportion of PICC placements per annum are being performed:
  • Under fluoroscopy
  • At the bed side
  • Other (please state)

With regards to the proportion of placements performed by method in accordance with FOISA s 17(1), NHS Shetland confirms that it does not hold the information requested.

  1. Which clinical area(s) or clinical roles insert PICC lines in your organisation?

Consultant Anaesthetists are the only clinicians who insert PICC lines at NHS Shetland.

  1. Please can you kindly provide a purchasing export report detailing the following relevant to midline catheters:

Please see attached spreadsheet.

To ensure that we have not missed any information relevant to your request, we have included all entries related to catheters in the purchasing export.

Please note that purchase order reports do not contain brand information and so, in accordance with FOISA s 17(1), NHS Shetland confirms that it does not hold the information requested. We have included a Vendor name column in place of Brand.

  • Manufacturer
  • Brand
  • Product Code
  • Description
  • Volume (in pieces)
  1. Please could you provide this information for all supply routes (direct, NHS Supply Chain or other distributor) for the following time periods and name the files according to the year:
  • 1st January 2022 – 31st December 2022
  • 1st January 2023 – 31st December 2023
  • 1st January 2024 – 31st June 2024

N/A

  1. Which clinical area(s) or clinical roles insert Midline catheters lines in your organisation?

Consultant Anaesthetists are the only clinicians who insert midlines in NHS Shetland

  1. Please can you kindly provide a purchasing export report detailing the following relevant to implantable ports and port access needles:

Please see attached spreadsheet.

To ensure that we have not missed any information relevant to your request, we have included all entries related to catheters in the purchasing export.

Please note that purchase order reports do not contain brand information and so, in accordance with FOISA s 17(1), NHS Shetland confirms that it does not hold the information requested. We have included a Vendor name column in place of Brand.

  • Manufacturer
  • Brand
  • Product Code
  • Description
  • Volume (in pieces)
  1. Please could you provide this information for all supply routes (direct, NHS Supply Chain or other distributor) for the following time periods and name the files according to the year:
  • 1st January 2022 – 31st December 2022
  • 1st January 2023 – 31st December 2023
  • 1st January 2024 – 31st June 2024

N/A

  1. Which clinical area(s) or clinical roles implant ports in your organisation?

If a patient required placement of a port, they would be transferred to vascular services at NHS Grampian.