Government of Jersey

Patients travelling to Southampton for treatment (FOI)

Produced by the Freedom of Information office
Authored by Government of Jersey and published on 21 February 2022.
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Request

Since 2018, how many patients from Jersey have been sent to Southampton for treatment?

Please break this down by year, and by nature of care received (i.e. cancer / critical care / eye hospital, etc.).

Response

The number of patients from Jersey who travelled to Southampton for treatment since 2018, broken down by year and specialty is as follows:

Speciality	2018	2019	2020	2021
Cardiology	<5	5	<5	<5
Dental	6	<5	7	9
Dermatology	5	14	13	28
Diabetes	0	<5	0	0
Diagnostics	17	13	16	37
Endocrinology	8	21	8	16
ENT	24	24	24	30
Gastroenterology	34	35	36	20
General Medicine	6	<5	<5	<5
General Surgery	40	45	40	63
Genetics	<5	8	12	<5
Gynaecology	<5	5	<5	<5
Haematology	10	7	8	9
Hepatobiliary	<5	<5	<5	<5
Mental Health	<5	<5	0	<5
Microbiology	<5	0	0	<5
Neonatal / SCBU	<5	6	6	8
Neuro Sciences	34	30	21	25
Obstetrics	23	39	35	25
Oncology	117	158	94	97
Ophthalmology	8	28	17	34
Paediatrics	116	105	72	121
Respiratory	89	89	51	69
Rheumatology	0	<5	0	0
Thoracics	0	<5	0	<5
Trauma and Orthopaedics	72	41	45	63
Urology	<5	<5	6	8
Vascular	<5	0	0	<5

All treatment carried out in the following hospitals in Southampton is included in the data above:

University Hospital Southampton
Princess Anne Hospital
Royal South Hants Hospital
Southampton Nuffield Wessex
Southampton General Hospital
Southampton Hospital – Burlesdon House

Due to small numbers disclosure control has been applied to protect the privacy of patients. Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

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.

(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.