Paediatric acute lymphoblastic leukaemia data (FOI)Paediatric acute lymphoblastic leukaemia data (FOI)
Produced by the Freedom of Information officeAuthored by Government of Jersey and published on
23 September 2024.Prepared internally, no external costs.
Request
On an annual basis from 1990, how many children in Jersey have been diagnosed and treated for: acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL).
Response
Health and Community Services does not hold data on the number of newly diagnosed cases of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in children and adolescents each year.
Whilst details of diagnoses will be documented within individual patient records, the requested information is not held in a central record. Therefore, Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.
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.
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