FOI/2025/26/394

Your request:

 

 

For the past three full years for which full data is available, could you please provide procurement data including cost and number of units for the following items purchased by the Trust:1.      Scissors, including surgical, disposable and single-use versions.2.      Forceps, including artery or tissue forceps.3.      Surgical clamps.4.      Basic hollowware, including gallipots, kidney dishes, instrument trays and bowls.5.      Single-use tourniquets.6.      Harmonic shears.For each item category, please provide for each year:a) Total number of units procuredb) Total spend (£)c) Where recorded in procurement systems, whether the items were designated as single-use/disposable.Additionally, for the same three years, please provide the total number of the following mobility aids procured by the Trust:

a) Crutchesb) Walking framesc) Walking sticks

And for each of the above mobility aids:a) Total annual spend (£)b) If recorded centrally, the number of units refurbished or reissued through reuse schemes

Our Response:

 

Please see attached.

 

For the Surgical Procurement dataset, as there is no appropriate classification or identifier given, the line description field was used to identify relevant lines using keywords in the email:

• a) Total number of units procured
• b) Total spend (£) for the past three full years where full data is available.

Regarding c) this information is not captured in our data, so we are unable to report on this.

 

For the Mobility Aids dataset, the same approach was applied using line description keyword matching. We were able to provide:

• a) Total annual spend (£)

However, b) the number of units refurbished is not captured in our data, so this could not be included.

We are withholding total spend per category as this would allow the requestor to ascertain costs per unit, therefore commercially sensitive.