Healthcare suppliers (FOI)

Request

Please can you provide the following information for your PACS, VNA and RIS systems used in the Trust.

PACS

• who is your current PACS Supplier

• please can you confirm when your current PACS contract expires

• what was the total cost of the acquisition

• did you purchase via capital and support, or managed service

• what is the annual maintenance cost

VNA

• who is your current VNA Supplier

• please can you confirm when your current VNA contract expires

• what was the total cost of the acquisition

• did you purchase via capital and support, or managed service

• what is the annual maintenance cost

RIS

• who is your current RIS Supplier

• please can you confirm when your current RIS contract expires

• what was the total cost of the acquisition

• did you purchase via capital and support, or managed service

• what is the annual maintenance cost

Response

Please see the table below:

Medical Informatics 

The following exemption of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied

Article 33 Commercial interests

Information is qualified exempt information if –

(a) it constitutes a trade secret; or

(b) its disclosure would, or would be likely to, prejudice the commercial interests of a person (including the scheduled public authority holding the information).

Public Interest test

Since the exemption engaged is qualified, not absolute, a public interest test has been conducted to assess whether, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in supplying the information is outweighed by the public interest in not doing so. It is judged that the contract values are commercially sensitive as they are the outcome of negotiations between parties and that the release of this data could affect the negotiation of future contracts and therefore the public interest in raising awareness of specific financial information is outweighed by the potential prejudice to the commercial interests of both the Government of Jersey and to third parties.