Migraine diagnosis (FOI)

​Request

A

Can you please tell me how many people in Jersey in the last three years were diagnosed with migraine?

B

How many were over 16 years old and how many less than 16 years old?

C

What are the possible treatments were offered by Health Department for patients diagnosed?

Response

A and B

Jersey General Hospital uses diagnosis codes for inpatients only and migraine would likely be coded as a secondary diagnosis, ie not the main cause of the inpatient admission. This would therefore provide a very incomplete view of migraine diagnosis in Jersey which is likely to be completed in a primary care setting, ie GPs and pharmacists, which are not covered by the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011.

C

There may be some outpatient activity relating to migraine but these episodes are not centrally coded and would require a manual record trawl. This would require many hundreds of hours of staff time and the information is therefore exempt under the cost limit specified in regulations.

Exemptions and/or refusals applied to this request:

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.