Diagnoses of uterine conditions since 2018 (FOI)

​​​Request

A

Please advise how many people have been diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome in Jersey.

B

Please break the numbers down by people diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome by year from 2018 to date. 

C

Please advise how many people have been diagnosed with premenstrual syndrome in Jersey?

D

Please break the numbers down by people diagnosed with premenstrual syndrome by year from 2018 to date. 

E

Please advise how many people have been diagnosed with Endometriosis in Jersey?

F

Please can you break the numbers down by people diagnosed with Endometriosis by year from 2018 to date.  

Response

No central record of the information requested is held for the specified conditions. Therefore, Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

As noted in a Freedom of Information response published to www.gov.je in March 2023, there may be women with endometriosis who have been diagnosed in other jurisdictions, and those who are managed exclusively in primary care, who have never been referred to secondary care for management of their symptoms. The same is true of polycystic ovarian syndrome and pre-menstrual syndrome, which may both be managed without any secondary care involvement.

​As noted in that Freedom of Information response, GP services in Jersey are private businesses and, as such, their data is not held by Health and Community Services. The response is linked below, for reference:

Number of Endometriosis diagnoses (FOI)​

Article applied

Article 3 - Meaning of “information held by a public authority”

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a)     it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b)     it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.​