For period 1 April 2003 to 31 March 2004 | Aberdeen | Belfast | Birmingham City | Birmingham Heartlands | North Bristol NHS Trust | University Hospital Wales | Derriford | Guildford and Frimley | Hull | Leeds | Central Manchester | Newcastle RVI adults | Oxford* | Path Links Immunology | Preston | St Helier | Sheffield | Southampton |
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This table shows for each centre the numbers of desensitisation clinics, food challenges, and other nurse led activities performed during the 1 year study period. | ||||||||||||||||||
*In Oxford these services are provided jointly between infectious diseases (1 weekly PA) and immunology. | ||||||||||||||||||
FU, follow up; PA, programmed activities—4 hour blocks of time; –, data not available/not applicable. | ||||||||||||||||||
Desensitisation clinics | ||||||||||||||||||
No of desensitisation clinics | 0 | 20 | 80 | 30 | 48 | 41 | 25 | 50 | 50 | 46 | 50 | 102 | 39 | 50 | 104 | 51 | 44 | 44 |
No of new patients | 0 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 14 | 9 | 32 | 12 | 20 | 34 | 11 | – | 10 | 7 | 3 | 21 | 10 | 18 |
No of established patients | 0 | 6 | 3 | 15 | 26 | 16 | 35 | 40 | 20 | 24 | 12 | – | 80 | 11 | 7 | 35 | 4 | 62 |
Total no of patient attendances | 0 | 92 | 75 | 226 | 460 | 192 | 478 | 660 | 300 | 579 | – | 654 | – | >100 | 65 | – | 400 | 988 |
No of patients being desensitised to inhaled allergens | 0 | 10 | 8 | 15 | 17 | 14 | 12 | 4 | 12 | 39 | 11 | 12 | 0 | 7 | 4 | – | 9 | 36 |
No of patients being desensitised to venoms | 0 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 16 | 6 | 20 | 45 | 6 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 85 | 11 | 5 | – | 3 | 32 |
No of patients being desensitised to cat | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – | 0 | 6 |
No of patients being desensitised to other allergens | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 6 |
Nurse led clinical activity | ||||||||||||||||||
No of Epipen FU clinics | 0 | 4 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
No of new patients | 22 | 77 | – | – | 62 | 19 | 50 | 20 | 100 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 120 | 300 | – |
No of FU patients | 21 | 0 | – | – | 48 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 100 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 10 | 2 | – |
No of other nurse led clinics | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 80 | 50 | 0 | 138 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 44 | 0 | 0 |
No of patients seen in “other” clinics | 38 | – | – | – | – | – | 60 | 180 | 400 | – | 398 | 232 | – | – | – | 150 | – | – |
Food and drug challenges | ||||||||||||||||||
No of outpatient challenges | 6 | 7 | 0 | 26 | 16 | 0 | 10 | 25 | 20 | 32 | – | 112 | 0 | – | 3 | 20 | 30 | 0 |
No of inpatient challenges | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |