Information Commissioner's Office

Nursing and Midwifery Council

7 August 2017, Health (Other)

The complainant has requested a copy a review into the way the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) handled complaints about a named midwife together with the cost of producing the review. The NMC provided the information on its cost, but withheld the actual review under the exemptions provided by section 42 – legal professional privilege and section 40(2) - third party personal data. The Commissioner’s decision is that the NMC is entitled to rely on section 42 to withhold the review in its entirety. She has not therefore gone on to look at the application of section 40(2). The Commissioner does not require the public authority to take any further action in this matter.

FOI 42: Not upheld