FoI Number
2023-307
Subject
A&E Equipment Adverse Incidents
Date Received
29/08/2023
Request and Response
  1. The number of occasions in which an adverse incident was recorded in your Health Board, which was caused by faulty equipment in A&E departments in the past 5 years.

Year

No. of Incidents

2018 / 2019

Nil

2019 / 2020

Nil

2020 / 2021

<5

2021 / 2022

<5

2022 / 2023

<5

2023 to date

Nil

In accordance with FOISA s 16(1), NHS Shetland confirms that it holds the information requested but that it is exempt from disclosure under FOISA s 38(1)(b) as read with s 38 (2A) as the information constitutes personal data and disclosure would breach the confidentiality of the data subjects.