Claims against the Hospital (FOI)

Request

A

How many claims have there been in the last five years due to staff not being present, illness spread by failure to clean?

B

Total cost of claims in the last five years due to negligence, oversight, incompetence, where negligence and / or breach of duty has been proven in law? The total paid either as a result of proven by law or settled by negotiation?

C

How many claims have there been in the last five years due to building defects?

Response

A to C

The Health and Community Services department holds information on all claims made against them, however such information is recorded on a per file basis and not in a reportable format for the purposes of this request.

It is not possible to provide a response to this request as to review the file for each and every claim to identify the requested information would exceed the 12.5 hour permitted timeframe for answering Freedom of Information requests. Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has therefore 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.

Regulation 2 (1) of the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014 allows an authority to refuse a request for information where the estimated cost of dealing with the request would exceed the specified amount of the cost limit of £500. This is the estimated cost of one person spending 12.5 working hours in determining whether the department holds the information, locating, retrieving and extracting the information.