Number of medical exemptions granted for the Covid vaccinations

The request was successful.

Dear Fife NHS Board,

I hereby request the health board to release the number of medical exemptions granted for the Covid vaccinations?

Yours faithfully,

Richard Clark

Trigger Sender,

Dear Richard

Ref: FOISA request FIFENHSIR:828 Medical exemptions granted for Covid-19

Thank you for your request made under the Freedom of Information
(Scotland) Act 2002 (FOI(S)A). We received your request on 2022-01-10
09:54:00 with regards to:

Medical exemptions granted for Covid-19

Please see notes.

We will respond to your request once we have collated the information you
have requested. This will be no later than 20 working days from the date
of this acknowledgement to your request.

If we fail to respond to your initial request, you may write to us and
request a review of our failure to respond at:
Information Governance and Security Team
eHealth Department
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Dunfermline, KY11 8JH

[NHS Fife request email]

Alternatively you can raise your concern with the Scottish Information
Commissioner's Office at:
Office of the Scottish Information Commissioner
Kinburn Castle
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St Andrews
Fife KY16 9DS

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Yours Sincerely,
NHS Fife FOI Team

Dear Trigger Sender,

Can you please answer my FOI request which is now overdue. By law you should normally have responded promptly and by 4 February 2022

Yours sincerely,

Richard Clark

Fife foirequestfife, Fife NHS Board

Dear Mr Clark,

 

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST NHSFife:828.

 

Thank you for your request made under the Freedom of Information
(Scotland) Act 2002 (FOI(S)A) for medical exemptions granted for Covid-19.

 

NHS Fife has completed our search for information held in relation to your
request and in this case we will be applying an exemption to some of the
data.

 

Exemption: Section 38(1)(b) – Personal information.

Where the values of statistics provided fall below 5 but are greater than
0, these statistics are represented by ‘<5’.  Due to the small numbers of
patients involved further detail cannot be provided as disclosure of the
information may lead to the identification of individuals.

 

I hereby request the health board to release the number of medical
exemptions granted for the Covid vaccinations?

 

Medical exemptions from vaccinations are issued by National Services
Scotland (NSS) on instruction from the territorial NHS Boards following
clinical review of the case. The number of NHS Fife residents where a
recommendation has been made to NSS to process a medical exemption from
vaccination certificate to date is <5.

 

I hope this information is helpful to you. If, however, you are unhappy
with any aspect of how we have dealt with your request you can ask us to
review the handling of your request. Please write to us specifying the
reasons you are seeking a review within 40 working days of the date of
this correspondence.

 

We will undertake a review of our response which will be led by a senior
member of staff who is independent from the original response. If you are
not satisfied with the result of the review you then have the right to
make a formal complaint to the Office of the Scottish Information
Commissioner.

 

Kind Regards,

Kellyanne Tosh

The NHS Fife FOI Team

 

 

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