Health and Community Services staffing (FOI)

​Request

Please confirm the following:

A 

How many medical secretaries in the hospital have resigned, retired, or are on permanent sick leave this year? (Numbers per category please).

B

How many people are working in the Appointments section of the hospital and how many are on full time contracts +how many left this year?

C

How many people are working in the hospital's medical Records Department and how many are on full time contracts and how many left this year?

D

How many Health Care Managers have either worked with or had associations with Caroline Landon in the NHS or elsewhere before coming to Jersey?

E

What is the contract length for each of these managers?

Response

A

Less than five medical secretaries have resigned. There have been no retirements and no staff on permanent sick leave in 2021.

Disclosure control has been applied to numbers fewer than ten under Article 25 (Personal information) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011.

B

15 people work in the Appointments section.

Less than five people have left in 2021.

Due to the low numbers involved, to provide a further breakdown of staff in full time positions would likely identify those individuals who work either part time or full time. Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

C

20 people work in Medical Records, 12 of these individuals work full time hours and the remainder are part time.

Less than five individuals have left in 2021 due to the expiry of fixed term contracts.

Disclosure control has been applied to numbers fewer than ten under Article 25 (Personal information) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011.

D and E 

This information is not held in recorded form. Providing an answer would require manipulation of data. The Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 does not require a Scheduled Public Authority to manipulate data in order to provide a response. Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

Articles applied

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.

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.

(3) In determining for the purposes of this Article whether the lawfulness principle in Article 8(1)(a) of the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 would be contravened by the disclosure of information, paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 2 to that Law (legitimate interests) is to be read as if sub-paragraph (b) (which disapplies the provision where the controller is a public authority) were omitted.