Common types of cancer diagnosis (FOI)

Request

What were the top five cancers diagnosed in Jersey in 2019 and 2020 thanks

Response

Information in relation to cancer diagnosis in Jersey is analysed by Public Health England through the National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service on behalf of the Channel Islands. The latest report from Public Health England can be found at the following link:

Channel Islands Cancer Registration Report 2020 

Data about diagnosis in 2019 and 2020 will be included in the next iteration of this report.

Providing data from the Jersey health systems, would include data extraction, matching and analysis from the following systems:

• Cancer Outcomes and Services dataset (COSD) from the cancer management MDT system

• Pathology (including information about staging and metastasis)

• Patient Administration System (PAS).

• Death certificates or notices

Compilation of this data, without information from UK data systems related to Jersey domiciled residents would not give a complete picture of diagnosis of Jersey residents, this is why data is supplied through the National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service in order to provide a complete data set of cancer diagnoses.

To answer the request, the data would need to be extracted from various sources and manipulated, aside from taking more than the prescribed 12.5 hours to do that work, the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 does not require a Scheduled Public Authority to manipulate data to provide a response.

Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has therefore been applied.

Article applied

Article 16 - A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive

(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed any fee of an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations.

Regulation 2 (1) of the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014 allows an authority to refuse a request for information where the estimated cost of dealing with the request would exceed the specified amount of the cost limit of £500. This is the estimated cost of one person spending 12.5 working hours in determining whether the department holds the information, locating, retrieving and extracting the information.