Information Commissioner's Office

Summary: The complainant asked the Department of Health (DOH) to provide: -�electronic copies of the ranked hospital level data for Rounds 5, 6 and 7 of the National Sentinel Stroke Audit as published to date, both the organisational and clinical components...Note that these requests are not for the data in the published -�Public Reports-� which place individual hospitals and hospital trusts into quartiles according to the scores attained in the assessment criteria.-� The Information Commissioner-�s decision is that the DOH has failed to comply with its obligations under section 1(1)(a) of the FOIA as it informed the complainant that it does not hold the requested information. The Commissioner considers that the requested information is held by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Agency (HQIP) and/or the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) on behalf of the DOH under section 3(2)(b) of the FOIA. The Information Commissioner (the Commissioner) requires the DOH to take the following steps to ensure compliance with the legislation: provide the complainant with the requested information or issue a valid refusal notice under section 17 of the FOIA.
Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 1 - Complaint Upheld