Hospital Worker Suspensions (FOI)

Request

A

Please advise how many hospital workers are currently suspended? 

B

Please provdie a break down of the reasons for those suspensions and class them by length of extension?

C

How many of the hospital workers currently suspended are still on full pay? Please break this answer down by the length of suspension.

Response

A

There are currently fewer than five hospital staff suspended from duty.

Where numbers are fewer than five, disclosure control is applied to avoid identification of any individuals.  Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

B

Government of Jersey employees are entitled to protection of their personal information under Data Protection legislation. Providing details pertaining to investigations or disciplinary procedures could breach the privacy of individuals. Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

C

As detailed in previous Freedom of Information responses, suspension is a neutral act, and therefore, any individual who is suspended from duty will receive full pay.

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.