Bone-Anchored Hearing Aid operations since 2020 (FOI)

​Request

Please confirm how many Bone-Anchored Hearing Aid (BAHA)​ operations have been carried out locally each year since 2020? 

Response

The attached table details the number of elective public Bone-Anchored Hearing Aid (BAHA) procedures completed at Jersey General Hospital per year, from 2020 to 2023, including preparatory surgery and attention to fixtures. Where fewer than five procedures have been performed in a year, disclosure control has been applied to protect the personal information of individuals, and this is shown in the table as ‘<5’. Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

Attachment Table.pdf​

Cases meeting the criteria for inclusion have been identified by the procedure codes assigned to the episode of care in the Electronic Patient Record.

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 2005.

(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 2005; 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.​