FOI 7379 - Hypoxic Challenge Testing
Date: 04 July 2022 to 04 July 2025
- Does the Trust provide hypoxic challenge testing services?
- If yes, is HCT testing provided as an NHS service or as a private service?
- If HCT testing is offered as a private service, what is the fee?
- Do patients need a GP referral or consultant referral to access hypoxic challenge testing?
- How is the HCT/fitness to fly service "marketed" to GPs and private patients?
- Which patient groups / morbidities typically require HCT testing? e.g. patients with interstitial lung disease etc.
- How many hypoxic challenge tests have been completed in the last year?
- What is the current waiting time to access an HCT test?
- Has the emergence of long Covid added to demand for fit to fly assessments in recent months?
- For patients referred for a fitness to fly assessment, what outputs does the patient receive? e.g. a letter from a respiratory consultant advising whether they will need supplementary oxygen when flying, a consultation, any other intervention.
- Request ID:7379
- Category:Trust - Service Data
- Response:
July 2022
- Does the Trust provide hypoxic challenge testing services? No
- If yes, is HCT testing provided as an NHS service or as a private service? N/A
- If HCT testing is offered as a private service, what is the fee? N/A
- Do patients need a GP referral or consultant referral to access hypoxic challenge testing? N/A
- How is the HCT/fitness to fly service "marketed" to GPs and private patients? N/A
- Which patient groups / morbidities typically require HCT testing? e.g. patients with interstitial lung disease etc. Patients with O2 difficulties such as COPD
- How many hypoxic challenge tests have been completed in the last year? 0
- What is the current waiting time to access an HCT test? N/A
- Has the emergence of long Covid added to demand for fit to fly assessments in recent months? N/A
- For patients referred for a fitness to fly assessment, what outputs does the patient receive? e.g. a letter from a respiratory consultant advising whether they will need supplementary oxygen when flying, a consultation, any other intervention. N/A