Western isles Peer Review - FOI Response Register

On 5 July 2023 a request was made by the Cabinet Secretary for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care, to the Chief Executives of NHS Orkney and NHS Shetland to jointly undertake a peer review of NHS Western Isles (patient travel expenses) escorts approval process.

1. Please provide all information that you hold on the process, progress and outcome of the requested peer review. If the review is incomplete, please also provide anticipated completion and publication dates.

Please see the attached document.

Where we have applied redaction, this is because the documents contained the personal data of individual staff members. As such and 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.