Health and Community Service employment of Locums (FOI)Health and Community Service employment of Locums (FOI)
Produced by the Freedom of Information officeAuthored by Government of Jersey and published on
06 March 2023.Prepared internally, no external costs.
Request
A
Are any Locums being used to cover the absence of Consultants through suspension?
B
How many Locums on a full time basis have been used to cover suspensions for each of the last twelve months?
Response
Fewer than five Health and Community Services medical staff are excluded from clinical work. Any absence is covered on a like-for-like basis.
As numbers are small, disclosure control has been applied to protect the privacy of individuals and no further breakdown of clinician designation or Locum staff numbers used to cover can be provided. 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.