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Freedom of information requests

FOI 2811 2022/23

Cataract operations

Published 18 August 2023

Cataract operations

Questions

  1. The number of NHS funded cataract operations which the Trust was commissioned to deliver in the financial years 2016/17 to 2021/22 inclusive.
  2. The number of NHS funded cataract operations which the Trust delivered in the financial years 2016/17 to 2021/22 inclusive.
  3. The amount of income generated from NHS funded cataract operations for each of the financial years 2016/17 to 2021/22 inclusive.
  4. The total income received by the Trust’s Eye Care Department/Unit/Service (i.e. that part of the hospital which has a specific budget for the delivery of both inpatient and outpatient eye care services) for each of the financial years 2016/17 to 2021/22 inclusive.
  5. The total expenditure by the Eye Care Department/Unit/Service for each of the financial years 2016/17 to 2021/22 inclusive.
  6. The number of consultant ophthalmologists below retirement age who have ceased to work for the Trust for each of the financial years 2016/17 to 2021/22 inclusive.
  7. The number of advertised vacancies for consultant ophthalmologists and ophthalmic nurses for each of the financial years 2016/17 to 2021/22 inclusive.

Response

1. 

 Trust

2016/17

2017/18

2018/19

2019/20

2020/21

2021/22

UHB

            2,051

            2,645

            5,909

            6,263

          5,789

            5,797

 

2.  

Trust

2016/17

2017/18

2018/19

2019/20

2020/21

2021/22

UHB

            2,061

            2,155

            5,703

            5,821

          1,792

            3,492

 

3.

Trust

2016/17

2017/18

2018/19

2019/20

2020/21

2021/22

 

UHB

£1,538,118

£1,262,795

£3,501,179

£3,895,668

£1,346,543

£2,667,753

 

4. All £ income related to activity carried out under the specialty of Ophthalmology.  All inpatient and outpatient activity included.

Trust

2016/17

2017/18

2018/19

2019/20

2020/21

2021/22

 

UHB

£21,157,780

£18,702,480

£18,648,320

£19,330,886

£8,588,537

£14,831,156

 

5. 

Trust

2019/20

2020/21

2021/22

 

UHB

£20,847,236

£15,187,251

£18,096,121

We do not hold this information prior to 19/20.

 

6.

Trust

Headcount

2016/17

1

2017/18

6

2018/19

4

2019/20

0

2020/21

1

2021/22

0

 

7. We do not hold this data. The below figures are held on NHS jobs, which only keeps records for 13 months.

1 January 2022 to 28 February 23:

                            5 Nurses

                            4 Consultants