Miscarriages in the last five years (FOI)

Request

How many miscarriages have there been in Jersey over the past five years, broken down monthly?

Response

Health and Community Services (HCS) hold data only in relation to the number of  miscarriages that occur within the Hospital setting, and are recorded in the Patient Administration System, TrakCare. The data is represented in the table below;

The majority of miscarriages occur outside of the hospital, in the community and are therefore not recorded on the TrakCare (Hospital patient administration system). Therefore, the information is not held.

As the numbers are small, a break down by month will impact on the privacy of individuals and as such, Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied. The numbers are, therefore, presented by year.

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.