Mr Alan James Consultant

The request was refused by Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust.

Dear Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust,
Can you publish in full all the details of Mr James arrest, which is public domain material and what for and why he has returned as head of endoscopy and who replaced him as trauma lead.

Yours faithfully,

Geoff Lovell

FOI (SURREY AND SUSSEX HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST), Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

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Dear Geoff Lovell,

 

Thank you for your request for information which is now being handled
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Jeanette Randall
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Dear Geoff Lovell,

 

Please see attached our response to your Freedom of Information request.

 

Kind regards

Jeanette

 

 

Jeanette Randall
Freedom of information officer
Communications and marketing
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
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Dear Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust's handling of my FOI request 'Mr Alan James Consultant'.
Why are the trust hiding behind GDPR.
The information is public domain and would be held in Human resources records.
Your excuses for release are facile.

[ GIVE DETAILS ABOUT YOUR COMPLAINT HERE ]

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/m...

Yours faithfully,

Geoff Lovell

FOI (SURREY AND SUSSEX HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST), Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

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Dear Geoff Lovell

 

 

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Jeanette

 

 

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Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
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Dear Geoff Lovell,

 

Please see attached our response to your internal review request.

 

Kind regards

Jeanette

 

 

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Communications and marketing
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Dear FOI (SURREY AND SUSSEX HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST),
Why do the newspapers have all the information and publish it with impunity but SASH do not?

Yours sincerely,

Geoff Lovell

FOI (SURREY AND SUSSEX HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST), Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

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Dear Mr Lovell,

 

Thank you for your email.

 

We need further clarification on the information you are asking for to be
able to answer your enquiry.

 

Please submit a new request including the questions you require
information for.

 

Once we have clarification of your request from you, we will be able to
begin to process your request.

 

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Jeanette

 

 

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Freedom of information officer
Communications and marketing
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
East Surrey Hospital, Redhill, RH1 5RH​
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Dear FOI (SURREY AND SUSSEX HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST),
It seems Mr Alan James has been able to erase all information about his arrest and suspension from all search engines.
Once again SASH are hiding behind legislation.
Can anybody access this information for me ?

Yours sincerely,

Geoff Lovell

FOI (SURREY AND SUSSEX HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST), Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

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Dear Geoff Lovell,

 

The Trust has responded to your FOI request on this issue and carried out
an internal review.

 

We believe we have fully responded to FOI 6264 and if you are not content
with our response you can appeal to the Information Commissioner’s Office
(ICO).

 

Contact details:

Information Commissioner's Office

Wycliffe House

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Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

 

Tel: 0303 123 1113

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Please be aware we will no longer continue to respond on this matter.

 

 

 

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Gillian Francis-Musanu

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Dear FOI (SURREY AND SUSSEX HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST),
From the Daily Mail 4th December 2018, thus a public record!
An Oxford-educated surgeon beat up his future wife during a drunken argument after he accused her flirting with another doctor at a works Christmas party, a tribunal heard yesterday.
Dr Alan James, 48, pinned the woman onto a bed and slapped her in the face after they had a furious row during which she told him: 'I should have gone back with your colleague instead.'
James, a Consultant in Upper Gastrointestinal and Laparoscopic Surgery at East Surrey hospital in Redhill was later taken to a nearby police station where officers found him in possession of eight Ecstasy tablets.
The unnamed woman received injuries to the left side of her face and knee in the incident.
The father of two - a keen guitarist - said the drugs had been bought during a music festival but he had not taken any of them.
He admitted assaulting the woman saying the incident was a 'source of regret to him.'
He and his victim later rekindled their romance and subsequently married.
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service was told the assault occurred on December 3, 2016 after the couple and other medical colleagues had been out celebrating their annual festive outing.
Carlo Breen, lawyer for the General Medical Council told the Manchester hearing: 'She had been drinking and so had he, they had then argued. Dr James became violent, he pinned her to the floor and punched her to her left ear. At the police station, he was found to be in possession of a bag of eight pills.
'He admitted assaulting her and told officers that both parties had been on a work Christmas dinner. They stayed out for some drinks and he described an argument when they returned home. Words were exchanged that irritated Dr James.
'She says that Dr James dragged her upstairs, he manhandled her to the bedroom and held her on the bed. He says he was intoxicated but not hugely. He told police that he lost control and that both parties were physically fighting. He said the circumstances were a source of regret to him.'
The hearing was told James pleaded guilty to charges of assault by beating and possession of a class A controlled drug at Redhill Magistrates' Court on January 5 last year.
He was sentenced to a community order made up of 20 rehabilitation requirement days and 100 hours of unpaid work over 12 months. He was also fined £1,000.
The doctor who lives in Redhill now faces a fitness to practise medicine panel which could strike him off.
At the hearing James who read medicine at Kings College London before studying for an MA at Oxford confessed: 'I can recall the incident, I slapped her. It was hard once and then two further times which were not hard. I had had quite a lot to drink, probably two glasses of wine and around five pints of beer.

Yours sincerely,

Geoff Lovell