Sunday 27 September 2026
Internal Reference Number: FOI_9516
Date Request Received: 03/07/2026 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 21/07/2026 00:00:00
This response was sent via: By Email
Request Summary: usage of medicines in secondary care
Request Category: Researcher
| Question Number 1: I am conducting an analysis on the usage of medicines in secondary care and kindly request your help. I would be grateful if you could send me two datasets from your Trust, to inform this analysis: (1) SACT Cancer report An extract from the chemotherapy ePMA system showing patients treated by drug and diagnosis, as specified in table 1 (attached). | |
| Answer To Question 1: Please see attached for April and May as approved in email with requestor as June not available until August To accompany this answer to question 1 please also see the documents listed below:  13860- FOI_9516 - SACT Usage of Medicines in Secondary Care - EXTERNAL.xlsx | |
| Question Number 2: (2) Drug Patient Level Contract Monitoring (DrPLCM) report Data fields from the DrPLCM report, as specified in table 2 (attached). Please do not send patient IDs or cost data, as I appreciate this would compromise data privacy and commercial sensitivity. | |
| Answer To Question 2: Please see the report attached. To accompany this answer to question 2 please also see the documents listed below: 13860 - FOI_9516 - Drugs FOI M1-M3 170726 - Sent.xlsx | |
| Question Number 3: Additionally, please could you let me know: a. Which version of SACT is your Trust’s data sourced from: V2, V3, or V4? b. Is the Trust actively using SACT V4? Yes/No | |
| Answer To Question 3: a. V3 b. No | |
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