Intensive care bed capacity (FOI)

Request

Would it be possible to know:
A
How many beds total are in the Intensive Care Unit in the Hospital?

B
As of today (17/03/2020), how many beds are available in the Intensive Care Unit in the hospital?

C
How many beds are available in other structure in the island (private or public) in ICU?

D
How many ventilators are available in the island?

Response

A-C
Jersey General Hospital Critical Care Unit consists of a five bedded High Dependency Unit and a five bedded Intensive Care Unit with an additional two isolation rooms. There are a total of 12 critical care beds staffed with seven critical care nurses and a supernumerary nurse. Physical and staff resources are used flexibly depending on the dependency of patients requiring Critical Care.

There are no other critical care beds on the island.

As of 17 March, there were four beds available in the high dependency unit and two beds available in the critical care unit. There were two beds occupied in the critical care unit by patients who are awaiting beds to become available on the general wards.

D
The information requested is exempt under Article 23 (Accessible by other means) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 as it is accessible to the requester by other means.

Please see the following link to a recent States Assembly written question response which provides the requested information:
WQ 135/2020

Article applied

Article 23      Information accessible to applicant by other means

(1)     Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise than under this Law, whether or not free of charge.

(2)     A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the information.