Internal Reference Number: FOI_8439
Date Request Received: 06/02/2025 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 16/02/2025 00:00:00
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Request Summary: sodium nitrite
Request Category: Private Individuals
| Question Number 1: I’m writing under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request information about the rate of sodium nitrite poisoning in your hospital trust. Please note I am asking about sodium nitrite, not sodium nitrate. For the past five years, up to and including 6 February 2025, I’d like to know the following: - How many cases of sodium nitrite poisoning were there? Please break this down into cases of a) intentional poisoning (eg suicide) and b) unintentional poisoning. | |
| Answer To Question 1: Please see our response to this FOI in the spreadsheet attached. To accompany this answer to question 1 please also see the documents listed below:  12764 - FOI_8439 - Sodium Nitrite.xlsx | |
| Question Number 2: Of the cases of sodium nitrite poisoning, how many of them were administered Methylene Blue? | |
| Answer To Question 2: Please see our response to this FOI in the spreadsheet attached. | |
| Question Number 3: - How many deaths were there where sodium nitrite poisoning was listed as the, or a, cause of death? Please break this down into how many deaths were caused by a) intentional poisoning (eg suicide) and b) unintentional poisoning. | |
| Answer To Question 3: Please see our response to this FOI in the spreadsheet attached. | |
| Question Number 4: Of the deaths caused by sodium nitrite poisoning, how many of them were administered Methylene Blue? | |
| Answer To Question 4: Please see our response to this FOI in the spreadsheet attached. | |
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