Health staff suspensions (FOI)

Request

A

Broken down by year, please provide the number of health staff suspended from their roles since 2017. For each year, please also state the outcomes (i.e. how many of these resulted in the individual leaving the service, other disciplinary action or no further action).

B

Please also provide these figures broken down by job (how many were consultants / nurses / HCA and AHPs, for example).

For each year, please also state the outcomes (i.e. how many of these resulted in the individual leaving the service, other disciplinary action or no further action).

Response

A

Please see the table below regarding the number of Health and Community Services staff suspended each year between 2017 – 2021. 

Complete information on the outcomes is not held centrally for the years 2017-2019 and would require manual enquiries to confirm the outcome of any investigation. Therefore, Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies. A Scheduled Public Authority (SPA) is not required to manipulate and create new data sets, but to provide the requester with information the SPA holds which has been specifically requested.

* Further action is not broken down into more detailed outcomes as this may lead to the release of personal identifiable information which would breach the privacy of the individual(s) concerned. Therefore, Article 25 (Personal Information) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) 2011 Law has been applied.

B

Release of further details regarding suspension cases may lead to the release of personal identifiable information which would breach the privacy of the individual(s) concerned. Therefore, Article 25 (Personal Information) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) 2011 Law has been applied.

Articles applied

Article 3 - Meaning of "information held by a public authority"

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a) it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b) it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.

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 2005.

(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.