FoI Number
2025-208
Subject
Cath Labs
Date Received
25/06/2025
Request and Response

NHS Shetland do not have Cath Lab facilities.  Our patients go to NHS Grampian

  1. The total number of cath labs in your Health Board
  2. The number of cath labs are in each Trust
  3. The age of each cath lab
  4. Any plans to refurbish any of these cath labs
  5. The volumes of private cardiology activity done in these NHS cath labs
  6. Any trusts within the Health Board considering procuring managed cardiology services
  7. Volume of NHS Cath lab and Outpatient Cardiology Activity last three years, broken by HRG code
  8. Volume of Private Activity last three years, broken by CSSD code
  9. Revenue of total NHS cath lab activity, last three years
  10. Revenue of total Private cath lab activity, last three years
  11. Private pricing schedules for all private cardiology activity, cath lab and outpatients
  12. Profit & Loss last three years for private cath lab activity
  13. Waiting list time by HRG code for cath lab procedure as of 1st June 2025
  14. Waiting list time for New Patient Consultation as of 1st June 2025
  15. Waiting list time for Cardiac CT as of 1st June 2025
  16. Waiting list time for Cardiac MRI as of 1st June 2025
  17. Waiting list time for Transthoracic Echo as of 1st June 2025
  18. Waiting list time for ambulatory monitor fitting as of 1st June 2025
  19. 12 month and 24 month re-do rate of Atrial Fibrillation procedures
  20. 12, 24 and 36 month Morbidity and Mortality rate for PCI
  21. Residual book value of all cardiac assets in current inventory
  22. Any Outsourced work to IS providers and if so, the volumes of activity you outsource, and the revenue values of outsourced activity, on a line-by-line basis
  23. Are you interested to explore a managed clinical services solution in your Health Board to support the potential reclaim of VAT on your consumables and/or the opportunity to release working capital through a ‘sale and leaseback’ (technology transfer agreement) of equipment and assets?
  24. Are you interested to explore a ‘cardiology movement hub’, namely an IS provider developing an elective cardiology hub to provide cath lab procedures allowing the acute Trust in your Health Board to concentrate on emergency and more complex activity to remove scheduling conflicts and so reduce waiting times?

 

Please provide the information in the form of an Excel document.