Our Hospital consultant (FOI)

​Request

My question concerns Prof Ashok Handa and his experience to be associated with the new hospital project.

When Prof Handa was appointed, it was stated that he had been involved in the clinical design of hospital developments in the Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath, Sussex, and the new Cancer Centre and John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.

Could you please give more specific details? What exactly was his title on the respective project teams and how involved was he? Did he just attend meetings or did he complete the actual design?

Response

Specific detail of a consultant or employee’s previous experience with another organisation will be held by that organisation and not the Government of Jersey.
 
Any such specific detail shared by a consultant or employee during the recruitment process constitutes personal information and as such publication would breach the privacy of the individual. Therefore, Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

Article applied

Article 25      Personal information

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018.

(2)     Information is absolutely exempt information if –
(a)     it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018; and
(b)     its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.

(3)     In determining for the purposes of this Article whether the lawfulness principle in Article 8(1)(a) of the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 would be contravened by the disclosure of information, paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 2 to that Law (legitimate interests) is to be read as if sub-paragraph (b) (which disapplies the provision where the controller is a public authority) were omitted.