Report into the death of [Redacted]

​​Request 756479976

Please kindly provide the serious incident report into [redacted]. 

Please confirm whether there has been a follow-up review since. 

If so, please provide a copy of the follow-up. If this does not exist in report format, please provide which recommendations of the SIR have been acted on, which are in progress, and which remain outstanding.

Response

As noted in a previous Freedom of Information response published to www.gov,.je​, Serious Incident reports are not made available in the public domain. The reports are shared with the individual to which the incident relates, or shared to friends and / or family only with the consent of the individual.

In the case of a deceased person the information is shared with the next of kin / nearest relative. If the individual has died as a result of the serious incident, the report will be shared with the Deputy Viscount acting as the coroner and may be read into the inquest.

Health and Care Jersey (HCJ) report upon Serious Incidents in the annual HCJ Quality Account (Part 3: Review of our quality performance; Learning from Serious Incidents and Never Events).

Health and Care Jersey Quality Account 2024​

Prior to the production and publication of the Quality Account, redacted versions of quarterly reports were shared through Freedom of Information:

gov.je/government/freedomofinformation/pages/foi.aspx?ReportID=6372​

Personal information of individuals or identifiable detail is not shared publicly. Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 is applied to protect the privacy of individuals, including the subject(s) of a Serious Incident review, their relatives, and those involved in providing care.

In the case of information requests for medical records of deceased person(s) made under the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011, the Jersey Office of the Information Commissioner’s guidance notes that they ‘consider that the duty of confidence will continue to apply after the death of the person concerned.’, and Article 26 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 is applied in this circumstance..

Articles applied

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.

Article 26 - Information supplied in confidence

Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a) it was obtained by the scheduled public authority from another person (including another public authority); and

(b) the disclosure of the information to the public by the scheduled public authority holding it would constitute a breach of confidence actionable by that or any other person