Health and Community Services groups and forums (FOI)Health and Community Services groups and forums (FOI)
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Request
Health and Care Partnership Group
The Minister for Health recently stated (JEP 29 March 2022) that he had attended the first meeting of the "Health and Care Partnership Group". Could you please provide me with the
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Names
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Titles and
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Professional qualifications of ALL of the members of this group? Could also please advise
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How often this group meets and
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Where I might find the minutes to the meetings of this group?
Clinical and Professional Advisory Forum
The Minister also spoke of the 'Clinical and Professional advisory Forum'. Could you please provide more information on this forum. i.e
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How often this group of people meet
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Who this group consists of (as above) - Names, titles, professional qualifications etc
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Where these meetings are held if a public meeting and
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Where the minutes are recorded for public viewing?
Primary Care Board
The Minister also stated that there are regular meetings between the Primary Care Board and HCS senior leadership. Could you please provide
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the names of all the members of the Primary Care Board
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Advise how many of the Primary Care Board are required to attend to attain a quorum
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Advise if ALL members of the Primary Care Board are invited to attend each meeting
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Where the minutes are recorded for public viewing
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Advise if minutes of all such meetings are sent to each individual GP by email to keep them advised
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The names and titles of all the personnel included in the 'HCS Senior Leadership'
Response
Health and Care Partnership Group
A and B
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There are currently over 70 members of the Health and Care Partnership Group from various charities, private health and care providers, other health and care organisations including, GPs, dentists and the Government of Jersey. There is no requirement for the attendee to be clinically qualified and therefore this information is not held. Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.
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Quarterly
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The notes from this Group will all be uploaded to the Health and Care Partnership Group website which is currently being created.
Clinical and Professional Advisory Forum
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Monthly
G
The qualifications held by an individual is personal information. In order to protect the privacy of the individual, Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied. However, doctors, nurses and clinicians are required to register with professional bodies, who publish a register online for members of the public to access.
The job description for the role within the Clinical and Professional Advisory Forum states: "You must possess an appropriate qualification relevant to your profession. Professional registration is also required". All of those that are members of the Board met the eligibility criteria of the Forum. The job description can be found here:
Clinical & Professional Forum membership (gov.je)
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The venue varies. However, this is not a public meeting.
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Notes of the meetings are not currently published.
Primary Care Board
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The Primary Care Body is not a Government of Jersey forum and as such the information is not held. Therefore, Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies. However, there is information available on the Primary Care Body website:
Primary Care Body - About us (primarycarebody.com)
K
This is not a formal meeting in the sense that a quorate number has not been set.
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Doctors Matt Doyle, Gordon Callander, Nigel Minihane, Bryony Perchard, Ed Klaber and Robert Pierce are invited to attend the meetings.
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Notes of the meetings are not published.
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Notes of the meeting are sent to those that attended or were invited. It is left to the Primary Care attendees to further distribute notes and information amongst the Primary Care providers.
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Patrick Armstrong – Medical Director
Claire Thompson – Interim Director of Clinical Services
Anuschka Muller – Director of Innovation and Improvement
Rose Naylor – Chief Nurse
Articles 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.
Article 25 - Personal information
(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005.
(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if –
(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005; and
(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.
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