Emergency Department and Orchard House acute admission unit (FOI)

Request

What is the monthly trends in Emergency Department (Hospital) and Orchard House Acute Admission Unit utilisation? Critical to this request is the reason or diagnosis (if given) for presenting / admission to hospital facility, the age of the patient presenting at the hospital facility, date or just month and year, the decision and or outcome following the assessment if available.

Due to the island’s population being small for statistical tests to be conducted on some uncommon conditions, The request is for a period of between 31 March 2021 going backwards to 1 March 2016 or if data is available to as far back as 1 March 2011.

The request is for a research to compare the trends between the Bailiwick of Jersey and the Isle of Man with regards to the service utilisation. There are differences in policy and strategies that could benefit the two Islands and the research could be the starting point to such lessons.

For the purposes of the research to be conducted, raw unprocessed and anonymised data will be much preferred as it will not take as much time from your data processing personnel.

Response

Due to the low numbers involved, it is not possible to disclose patient level data in a format that ensures sufficient anonymity. Therefore, this request is refused under Article 25 of the Freedom of Information Law.

Health and Community Services is always willing to benchmark and compare with other organisations where this can be achieved without comprising the privacy of patient data.  We would invite you to contact our Informatics Team via email at HCSInformatics@gov.je to discuss further.

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.