Monday 01 December 2025
Internal Reference Number: FOI_8824
Date Request Received: 05/08/2025 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 19/08/2025 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Narcolepsy Services
Request Category: Private Individuals
| Question Number 1: Please provide the following information regarding narcolepsy services provided or commissioned by your organisation: Do you provide or commission narcolepsy services? • If yes, please provide: • The name and location of the service • The current Referral to Treatment Time (RTT) • The number of patients seen by the service during the most recent full financial year (to April 2025) • The number of patients the service is contracted to see • The key performance indicators (KPIs) or outcome measures are used to monitor the service. Additionally, how the services performed against the set KPIs (outcome measures) for the latest available period of time. • Whether the service is commissioned through a block contract (Yes/No). • If not, please specify: • The organisation or provider to which patients with suspected or confirmed narcolepsy are referred to. | |
| Answer To Question 1: The Trust do not have a dedicated narcolepsy service. Patients may be seen in our general neurology clinics but we do not have coding of diagnoses so cannot say how many. Low numbers though. Most patients go to specialist sleep clinic elsewhere – closest is Southampton. | |
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