Bone-Anchored Hearing Aid surgery (FOI)

​​Request

Please confirm the number of Bone-Anchored Hearing Aid (BAHA)​ operations that have failed and have needed removal of the main BAHA implant in the skull during the last three years.

Response

Fewer than five Bone-Anchored Hearing Aid (BAHA) procedures completed in the previous three calendar years at Jersey General Hospital are documented to have subsequently failed.  As numbers are small, disclosure control has been applied to protect individuals from identification, and Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law has been applied to protect the privacy of individuals.

Cases in scope of the request have been identified using procedure codes attributed for BAHA procedures, including preparatory surgery and attention to fixtures, and a review of documentation in the Electronic Patient Record (EPR).

Any individuals who have had all of their BAHA surgeries since 2020 performed off-island will not be identified from central records.

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.​