Thursday, 10 April 2008

ICO criticises health body for FOI failures

via UK Freedom of Information Blog by Katherine Gundersen on 27 March

The Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, has strongly criticised Hounslow Primary Care Trust (PCT) for failing to meet its obligations under the Freedom of Information Act (FOI). The PCT failed to respond adequately to FOI requests, refused to provide all the relevant documents to the requester, missed several key deadlines for responding to both the requester and the Information Commissioner, and has committed numerous breaches of the Act.

Full press release

See also: PCT threatened with court over fight for information Health Service Journal
Watchdog hits out at NHS trust Financial Times

Hazel's comment:
Basically there's not much to say here, is there? Yet another public sector organisation has "got it wrong".

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