Monday 03 November 2025
Internal Reference Number: FOI_8826
Date Request Received: 06/08/2025 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 27/08/2025 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Vascular patients
Request Category: Companies
| Question Number 1: Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request the following information please: The current total number of patients on the vascular non-admitted waiting list at Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust split into: • Arterial patients • Venous patients | |
| Answer To Question 1: Please see response to Q1,2,3,5 and 6 in the attached file. To accompany this answer to question 1 please also see the documents listed below:  13182 - FOI_8826 - Vascular patients - FOR ISSUE.xlsx | |
| Question Number 2: The current number of patients on the vascular non-admitted waiting list who have already waited: • Longer than 65 weeks • Between 52 and 64 weeks • Between 40 and 51 weeks • Between 18 and 39 weeks • Less than 18 weeks | |
| Answer To Question 2: See spreadsheet on Q1. | |
| Question Number 3: How long is your longest non-admitted waiter? | |
| Answer To Question 3: See spreadsheet on Q1. | |
| Question Number 4: For routine venous patients being referred now, what month are you booking them into for their first outpatient appointment? | |
| Answer To Question 4: The Trust aims to schedule their first outpatient appointment as soon as possible, typically within 6 weeks of the referral as there currently isn't a huge back log. Given the current timeline, this means referrals received now would be booked for late September to early October. | |
| Question Number 5: The current number of patients on the admitted waiting list that are listed for varicose vein intervention, either unilateral or bilateral. This could be: • Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) • Foam sclerotherapy • Phlebectomies/avulsions • Vein stripping • Endovenous laser treatment (EVLT) | |
| Answer To Question 5: See spreadsheet on Q1. | |
| Question Number 6: The average full RTT waiting time for varicose vein patients | |
| Answer To Question 6: See spreadsheet on Q1. | |
| Question Number 7: Where do you treat your varicose vein patients? Is it in Main Theatre, Minor Ops, or an Outpatient setting? | |
| Answer To Question 7: Outpatient setting. | |
| Question Number 8: How many varicose vein patients would you normally treat on an intervention list? Please could you provide this information broken down by half day or full day list? | |
| Answer To Question 8: 3 per half day list. | |
| Question Number 9: Do you run pure varicose vein intervention lists or are patients mixed into regular vascular lists? | |
| Answer To Question 9: Pure varicose vein intervention lists. | |
| Question Number 10: Do your varicose vein patients attend a one stop diagnostic and consultation appointment? | |
| Answer To Question 10: Yes. | |
| Question Number 11: If not, how long is your current wait for a diagnostic appointment? | |
| Answer To Question 11: N/A | |
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