Friday 03 May 2024
Internal Reference Number: FOI_6875
Date Request Received: 17/11/2022 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 14/12/2022 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Clinical service incidents in 2021/22
Request Category: Private Individuals
| Question Number 1: Please provide details of clinical service incidents caused by estates and infrastructure failure at your hospital trust in 2021/22. A “clinical service incident” is defined as follows: Number of incidents caused by estates and infrastructure failure which caused clinical services to be delayed, cancelled or otherwise interfered with owing to problems or failures related to the estates and infrastructure failure. Exclude failures relating to non-estates causes e.g. nursing availability but include where external incidents which estates and infrastructures should have mitigated e.g. utility power failures where the Trusts backup power system failed to offset. An incident is considered to be a delay of at least 30 minutes to clinical services affecting at least 5 patients or equivalent. Both inpatient and outpatient service incidents should be included. Please note that the information provided will not always capture the length of delay or the total number of patients affected. Such incidents will include, but are not limited to: • Power and/or heating failures including overheating • Fires and false alarms (where caused by equipment faults or malfunction, deliberate/malicious causes should be excluded) • Water and/or sewage supply • Food production and/or delivery • Pest control | |
| Answer To Question 1: There was one clinical service incident caused by an electrical failure in pharmacy cold room | |
| Question Number 2: For each incident, please provide a summary of the incident and the impact on services. Please provide details of the problem and in what way clinical services were affected, including the number of patients affected, the service and how long the service was delayed/if it was cancelled. | |
| Answer To Question 2: Due to an electrical failure in the pharmacy cold room 643 vials of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine had to be discarded. | |
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