Royal College of Radiologists report correspondence (FOI)

​Request

Health and Community Services (HCS) commissioned a report by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) into the Rheumatology Service, which was published last month.  Please provide a copy of all communications or associated documents between HCS and RCP in relation to the report.

​Response

Please find attached the requested correspondence.

RCP Email Correspondence_Redacted_Optimized.pdf​

Duplicate emails have been removed and correspondence has been redacted in consideration of Freedom of Information legislation. Redactions have been colour coded for ease of reference, as follows:

Yellow - Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 – applied to protect personal information and the privacy of ​individuals, including Government of Jersey employees below Tier 2 and third parties.

Blue - Article 26 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 – applied to confidential information, such as passwords and unique survey links.

​Information that is unrelated to the Royal College of Physicians report is outside of the scope of this request, and has been redacted in grey.

As the Royal College of Physicians report (linked below) is available on www.gov.je, this is reasonably accessible by other means. Therefore, copies of the report shared as email attachments are exempt under Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011, and are redacted in their entirety. 

Royal College of Physicians - Jersey Rheumatology Report (gov.je)

Articles applied

Article 23 - Information accessible to applicant by other means

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise than under this Law, whether or not free of charge.

(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the information.

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.

Article 26 - Information supplied in confidence

Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a) it was obtained by the scheduled public authority from another person (including another public authority); and

(b) the disclosure of the information to the public by the scheduled public authority holding it would constitute a breach of confidence actionable by that or any other person.​