Friday 02 May 2025
Internal Reference Number: FOI_8507
Date Request Received: 06/03/2025 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 07/04/2025 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Helicobacter pylori testing
Request Category: Researcher
| Question Number 1: This FOI request seeks to establish the types, numbers, costs and timings of Helicobacter pylori tests performed by your Trust (or on its behalf) for primary care providers. Your Trust In your response to this FOI request, could you please specify the identity of the parts of your Trust for which this FOI is relevant, and for which you are responding. | |
| Answer To Question 1: Microbiology | |
| Question Number 2: Types of Tests and Providers Which types of tests relevant for the primary care diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori (e.g., stool antigen test, urea breath test, serology) do you perform within your Trust, or have performed on your behalf by a Third party? If outsourced, could you please specify the Third party used. | |
| Answer To Question 2: Stool antigen & gastric biopsy | |
| Question Number 3: Test Types and Volumes How many Helicobacter pylori tests of each of these types were performed by your Trust or on its behalf in the most recent 12-month period, or other defined accounting period for which data is available? | |
| Answer To Question 3: Stool antigen: 2726 tests, March 24-Feb 25. Gastric biopsy: very small numbers, approx. 3 in last year | |
| Question Number 4: Requirements for in-Person Testing Which types of tests required the in-person attendance of the patient at your Trust or its Third-party provider for testing, how many such in-person attendances were required, and what was the average time taken between patient arrival and departure? | |
| Answer To Question 4: Stool antigen doesn’t require in patient attendance gastric biopsy does. | |
| Question Number 5: Turnaround Time for Test Results Specifying each type of Helicobacter pylori test performed by your Trust, or on its behalf, could you please provide the average time (in hours) between receipt of sample to transmission of test result to the GP practice? | |
| Answer To Question 5: Information not available: Stool antigen:TAT in user handbook is 1 day, most samples done same day as receipt within a couple of hours. TAT for Gastric Biopsy is 19 days in user handbook, sent off site for testing | |
| Question Number 6: Test costs and Tariffs For each type of Helicobacter pylori test performed by your Trust or on its behalf, what is the total cost of performing the test to your Trust or the Third party provider (i.e., personnel, infrastructure, reagents and consumables, etc)? What does your Trust charge for performing each of these tests? Do these tests correspond to standard NHS tariffs or HRG codes? If so, could you please specify the tariff code and amount charged for each test type. | |
| Answer To Question 6: The Trust do not cost to the level of individual Pathology tests and the there is no tariff relating to H Pylori. Income for these tests would be covered by block income contracts or as part of tariffs for inpatient stays. | |
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