Admissions and treatment of Crohn's disease and Ulcerative Colitis (FOI)

​Request

Please can you provide information on:

A

The annual number of admissions each year to hospital for each of the years 2016 to 2020 inclusive for:

• Crohn's disease

• Ulcerative Colitis

B

The annual number of people treated for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis with biologics (such as adalumimab, infliximab, golumimab and vedoluzimab) for each of the years 2016 to 2020

Response

A

The number of admissions for each year by diagnosis is shown in the following table.

Some patients with Crohn’s and Ulcerative Colitis will require regular day case admissions for maintenance therapy and / or surveillance endoscopy, which will be included in these numbers.

B

The data required to enable a response to your request is not held within one dataset. The medical record for each of the patients in scope would need to be accessed and assessed in order to collate the data. Therefore, Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 as it would take more than 12.5 hours to collate the data.

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.[5]

(2) Despite paragraph (1), a scheduled public authority may still supply the information requested on payment to it of a fee determined by the authority in the manner prescribed by Regulations for the purposes of this Article.

(3) Regulations may provide that, in such circumstances as the Regulations prescribe, if two or more requests for information are made to a scheduled public authority –

(a) by one person; or

(b) by different persons who appear to the scheduled public authority to be acting in concert or in pursuance of a campaign,

the estimated cost of complying with any of the requests is to be taken to be the estimated total cost of complying with all of them.