Sunday 27 September 2026
Internal Reference Number: FOI_9523
Date Request Received: 06/07/2026 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 22/07/2026 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Essential Tremor
Request Category: Companies
| Question Number 1: Please note If your Trust uses different terminology for any of the services or procedures referenced below, please respond using your local definitions and indicate this where relevant. If any information is held in recorded form but cannot be disclosed in full, please provide it in anonymised or aggregated format where possible. • If your Trust cannot provide any of the data, please confirm: o a. whether the data is not held, o b. whether it is held only in free text/clinical notes, o c. whether extraction would exceed the cost limit, or o d. whether another organisation is more likely to hold the data. • For 2025 and 2026 year to date, how many patients were recorded by your Trust as having a diagnosis of Essential Tremor? If diagnoses for Essential Tremor are not routinely recorded, please confirm how many patients were coded with Essential Tremor upon admission during 2025 and 2026 year to date. | |
| Answer To Question 1: Coded on admission: 2025 = 89 2026 to date = 56 | |
| Question Number 2: • For 2025 and 2026 year-to-date, please provide: a) the total number of patients with Essential Tremor referred externally for Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) treatment, b) the Trust or treatment centre to which each referral was made, and c) the number of patients referred to each Trust or treatment centre | |
| Answer To Question 2: 2. (a) <5 (b) Neurology Department, Southmead Hospital, Southmead Road, Westbury-on-Trym, BS10 5NB (c) <5 | |
| Question Number 3: • For 2025 and 2026 year-to-date, please provide: a) the total number of patients with Essential Tremor referred externally for Magnetic Resonance-guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS) treatment, b) the Trust or treatment centre to which each referral was made, and c) the number of patients referred to each Trust or treatment centre. | |
| Answer To Question 3: This is not something that the radiology department do here Response from MFoP: 0 | |
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