Our Hospital Clinical and Operational Client Group

Request

In the scrutiny report of the hospital site selection process, it states that there is a group of people who meet monthly and names the job titles of those people.

Can you please provide the names of the following?

1) Director General, Health and Community Services

2) Chief Nurse

3) Group Managing Director, Health and Community Services

4) Group Medical Director

5) Group Director Commercial Services

6) Interim HR Director

7) Chief Pharmacist

8) Head of Mental Health and Associate Medical Director

9) Chief Clinical Information Officer

10) Associate Managing Director, Modernisation

11) Associate Managing Director, Care Groups

12) Clinical Director, Our Hospital Project (reporting role only)

13) Our Hospital Project Director (reporting role only)

14) Consultant Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist

15) Consultant General and Colorectal Surgeon

16) Head of Finance Business Partnering, Our Hospital

17) Policy Principal, Employment and Social Security

18) Acting Associate Director Health Modernisation

19) Interim Director of Health Modernisation

20) Associate Chief for Allied Health Professions and Wellbeing

21) Head of Communications for HCS

If the people holding these titles has changed at any point from the inception of the project up until today's date (13 November 2020) please provide all information of people who have been in that particular role and the dates they were involved.

Response

The group referred to is the Our Hospital Clinical and Operational Client Group (COCG). The names of COCG members have already been published in response to a previous FOI request and can be found in the following link and therefore Article 23 (Information accessible to applicant by other means) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

Our Hospital project group members (FOI)

The Interim Head of HR (HCS), Anne Robson was replaced by the Associate Director of People – Health, Steve Graham, on 21 Sept 2020.

Two of the less senior roles, where names were not provided under Article 25 (Personal information) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law have also had a change of incumbent:

The Head of Finance Business Partnering changed on 17 February 2020

The Head of Communications for HCS changed on 1 June 2020.

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 the 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.

(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.

Note

Article 25 is an absolute exemption, and therefore does not require a public interest test. However, whilst there appears to be limited public interest in the release of this data, it is noted that the roles where names have not been provided are less senior and the Government employees concerned would carry a reasonable expectation that this information would not be disclosed.