Link to IOC for full Decision notice pdf file: Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Health) [2025] UKICO 368409 (16 May 2025)
The complainant requested information from Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on 6 August 2024 for ICD10 first/Primary diagnosis discharge codes and cases, and OPCS4 primary procedure codes and cases, recorded per individual hospital for the last five calendar years, i.e. 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23 A public authority will breach section 10 of FOIA if it fails to respond to a request within 20 working days. Based on evidence available to the Commissioner, by the date of this notice the public authority has not issued a substantive response to this request. Therefore the Commissioner finds a breach of section 10. The public authority must provide a substantive response to the request in accordance with its obligations under FOIA. The public authority must take this step within 30 calendar days of the date of this decision notice. Failure to comply may result in the Commissioner making written certification of this fact to the High Court pursuant to section 54 of FOIA and may be dealt with as a contempt of court.