- FoI Number
- 2024-592
- Subject
- Waiting List Deaths
- Date Received
- 07/01/2025
- Request and Response
-
- The number of patients who died while on your NHS waiting list and have therefore been removed from the list due to their death or status as being deceased in 2025 to date.
- The number of patients who died while on your NHS waiting list, and have therefore been removed from the list due to their death or status as being deceased, broken down into the years 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020.
- If possible, I would also like a breakdown of ethnicity, religion, age and gender for every patient who died while on your NHS waiting list for each of these years, please.
If you don't hold all of this data or if providing it would exceed costs, please provide as much information as possible - starting from the most recent year and working backwards.
In accordance with FOISA s 16(1), NHS Shetland confirms that it holds the ethnicity information requested but that it is exempt from disclosure under FOISA s 38(1)(d). This is because the information requested constitutes part of an individual's health record.
With regard to religion, in accordance with FOISA s 17(1), NHS Shetland confirms that it does not hold the information requested.
NHS Shetland serves a remote and rural community and there are very small numbers of patients in some ethnic groups. Disclosing information about the ethnicity of people on waiting lists carries a 'not insignificant risk' that the health status of an individual could be
- Please also tell me the total number of people who are currently on your waiting list.
If possible, please provide a breakdown of ethnicity and religion for these patients.
In accordance with FOISA s 16(1), NHS Shetland confirms that it holds the ethnicity information requested but that it is exempt from disclosure under FOISA s 38(1)(d). This is because the information requested constitutes part of an individual's health record.
NHS Shetland serves a remote and rural community and there are very small numbers of patients in some ethnic groups. Disclosing information about the ethnicity of people on waiting lists carries a 'not insignificant risk' that the health status of an individual could be inferred.
With regard to religion, in accordance with FOISA s 17(1), NHS Shetland confirms that it does not hold the information requested.
I'd like this information in a table in an Excel format, please.
