Meningioma Brain Tumor (FOI)

​Request

In the last 10 years, how many patients have been sent to the UK from Jersey to have a benign Meningioma Brain Tumor removed the costs of which were fully met by Jersey Health care. 

For each case list:

• which hospital in the UK was the patient treated at

• the cost for each case for all the medical fees and associated costs regarding the hospital stay (for example theatre charges, nursing fees, consumables used)

• the cost for patient travel and any accommodation external to hospital fees which may have been necessary

• the travel and any accommodation cost for any relatives travelling with the patient

• please be specific with regard to the travel and accommodation costs in each case and include (shown separately) the costs for any off Island follow up hospital visits were required in each case

Response

We have been unable to respond to this request as the information requested is not available to Health and Social Services in the required format sufficient to be able to populate a response. 

Activity associated with contracting and commissioning of care in the UK is managed on one system while the clinical outcomes associated with each visit are managed on another and would form part of a patient’s care record, details of which would be held within a patient’s individual medical file.  

While the department does not have access to ten years’ worth of historical data, from the data it does hold, a clinical audit of all neurosurgical referrals to the UK would need to be commissioned in the first instance to identify the required cohort of patients to which costing would then be applied. 

This request would take a significant period of time to complete and could not be completed within the 12.5 hour time cost limit set out in the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011.