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Eating prior to surgery (FOI)

Eating prior to surgery (FOI)

Produced by the Freedom of Information office
Authored by States of Jersey and published on 13 February 2018.

Request

A

Please kindly provide the amount of people that had to be turned away from having an operation due to having eaten in advance over the past five years, broken down by each year.

B

Please also provide the overall number of operations taking place each year that require patients not to eat in advance.

Response

The Health and Social Services Department does not hold the information requested. Therefore, Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

Article applied to this request

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.

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