Holter Services in the Trust      

FOI REFERENCE: 24139    FOI DATE: 3^rd June 2024

Do you directly purchase holter monitors which are reusable, which company/companies and products do you use (e.g.Spacelabs)? Spacelabs

How much do you pay per monitor and what are the service costs? Commercially Sensitive

How much do you pay for the analysis software per licence? Commercially Sensitive

How many tests do you perform with these holter monitors per annum? 1207 during 2023-24 as outpatients and we estimate 100 per year for inpatients 

Approximately how many devices do you purchase per annum?  3 since 2020

Do you purchase outsourced analysis holter monitors, either single use disposable holter monitors (e.g. iRhythm-Zio) and/or reusable devices (e.g. ECG on Demand, Express Diagnostics), which company/companies and products do you use? No current agreement

How much do you pay per holter monitor/test? Commercially Sensitive

What is the average test duration? 20 minutes

How many tests do you perform with these holter monitors per annum? See above

Are you under official contract with this supplier? If so, until when?  These have been purchased via the PFI contract

Do you have a current backlog of patient’s for holter monitoring that falls outside of your KPI’s? Yes

How many patients in total?

How many weeks is the current wait time for fitting? Between 3 and 6 months depending on site

Do you have a backlog for analysis? If so, how many? 130 to be analysed

Is the above information for cardiology or stroke (or both)? Cardiology