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Please would you provide the following information in regards to hospital equipment (eg: crutches, walking aids and wheelchairs etc) distributed to patients for their use at home?

1. What is your policy on reusing hospital equipment distributed to patients for their use at home?
2. The cost of hospital equipment distributed to patients for their use at home?, broken down by equipment type, for each of the last five financial years.
3. The total number of each of equipment type distributed to patients, in each of the last five financial years
4. The total number of the items distributed that are returned to the hospital by patients in each of the last five years
5. The value of equipment patients return, broken down by item type in each of the last five financial years
6. Of the items of equipment returned in each of the last five years, the percentage of each type that is disposed of and the percentage that is recycled or reused
7. Whether the health board area has a central collection point for the return of equipment distributed to patients for home use.

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