-FOI/2025/26/121

Request

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.

                                2022/23              2023/24              2024/25             

Wound Care          24                           95                          131                          

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.

Role / FTE	24-25	23-24	22-23	22-21
Analyst	1	1	0	1
Clerical Worker	2	1	2	1
Community Nurse	16.4	12.8	12	13.4
Community Practitioner	6.8	4	4	4
Healthcare Assistant	3.8	1	1	1.48
Nurse Manager	2	2	2.4	2
Specialist Nurse Practitioner	7.5	10.5	9.5	8.9

 

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.

 i)              2021-22 - 30 headcount (Mar 2022)

ii)             2022-23 - 30 headcount (Mar 2023)

iii)            2023-24 - 32 headcount (Mar 2024)

iv)             2024-25 - 32 headcount (Mar 2025)

 

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?

Row Labels        Average wait in days

2022/23              48

2023/24              23

2024/25              20

 

1. 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? CLCH do not record this level of data
2. 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. CLCH do not deliver an A&E service. This FOI question is not applicable to our trust.
3. 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). N/A as per above
4. 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 We are applying exemption under Section 12 of the FOI Act 2000 as we cannot extract this date electronically.  This would require the finance department to manually review a large number of invoices across nearly 200 delivery sites.