Long Covid Clinic Pathway (FOI)

A

Since the “Long Covid” clinic was opened on 7 February 2022, how many of the patients attending the clinic to date for treatment of “Long Covid” had received A. One vaccination, B. Two vaccinations, or C. A + B plus a booster prior to their catching Covid19? Please break down into age groups, and gender.

B

How many patients attending the “Long Covid” Clinic to date have not been vaccinated? Please break down into age groups and gender.

C

How many patients in total have attended the “Long Covid” Clinic with a diagnosis of “Long Covid? Please break down into age groups and gender.

A

Information on vaccine status of Long Covid Clinic (or ‘Pathway’) attendees is not held in recorded form by the Clinic. Under the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 departments are not required to undertake manipulation or create new data sets to provide a response. Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 therefore applies.

B

Please see response to question A.

C

As of Friday 18th March 2022, 22 females and 10 males have attended the Long Covid Clinic/Pathway as meeting the criteria for Post-COVID-19 Syndrome or Long Covid. Please note that Jersey adopts the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) definition of Long Covid as “the symptoms that continue or develop after acute covid-19 infection and which cannot be explained by an alternative diagnosis. This term includes ongoing symptomatic covid-19, from four to 12 weeks post-infection, and post-covid-19 syndrome, beyond 12 weeks post-infection”. 

Age Range	Female	Male
80 +	<5	<5
75 -79	<5	<5
70 - 74	<5	<5
65 - 69	<5	<5
60 - 64	<5	<5
55 - 59	<5	<5
50 - 54	<5	<5
40 - 49	6	<5
30 - 39	<5	<5
18 - 29	<5	<5
16 - 17	N/A	N/A
Total	22	10

It is not possible to provide any further breakdown of attendees by age group and disclosure control has been applied to numbers fewer than five to prevent the identification of individuals. Article 25 (Personal Information) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

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.

(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.