People waiting for laparoscopic surgery by department (FOI)

​Request

Please confirm how many people are currently waiting for a laparoscopic surgery under each of the following hospital departments: 

• Ears Nose and Throat 
• Gastroenterology
• General Surgery 
• Gynaecology
• Ophthalmology 
• Oral Surgery
• Orthopaedics
  
• Pain 
• Urology

Response

The table below shows the number of patients recorded as awaiting laparoscopic surgery for the listed specialties, as of 29 February 2024. Where numbers are small, disclosure control is applied to protect the privacy of individuals and numbers fewer than five are represented as ‘<5’. Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

​Data Source: Hospital Patient Administration System (Maxims), Report IP009

There are no patients recorded as awaiting laparoscopic surgery for the other specialties requested.

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.​