A&E Attendances for Bike, Scooter & Skateboard Accidents (FOI)

Request

How many people have been seen in Accident & Emergency with any injury sustained from a bicycle, scooter or skateboard incident:

2024 so far to date

• under 18 years
• over 18 years
• gender male/female

2023

• under 18 years
• over 18 years
• gender male/female

Response

Accident and Emergency Department data categories / field options within the Electronic Patient Record are not held at the level of granularity required to identify injuries sustained in relation to incidents involving bicycles, scooters and skateboards. Whilst such information would be documented within the clinical notes of individual medical records, no central record is available to report from. 

A Scheduled Public Authority is not obliged to create new datasets or manipulate existing data to address Freedom of Information requests. As records are not held in a format that allows for the requested information to be discerned without manual interrogation, and as examining the individual records of all Accident and Emergency Department attendees to identify those in scope would exceed the timescales prescribed in the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014, Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

Article applied

Article 16 - A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive

(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations. ​