Request for Fitness to Practice data
Dear University of Exeter,
I write to request data held with regard to Fitness to Practice (FTP) procedures in your Medical School. Please can I be provided with:
1. Any FTP Procedures and Policies, in particular those pertaining to investigative and/or committee processes that take place in your School of Medicine;
2. The number of FTP investigations that have taken place in your School of Medicine across each academic year for the last five years;
3. The basis for each of these FTP investigations, for example:
• A criminal conviction, caution, reprimand or penalty notice for disorder (PND) or equivalent
• Drug or alcohol misuse
• Aggressive, violent or threatening behaviour
• Persistent inappropriate attitudes or behaviour
• Dishonesty or fraud, including dishonesty outside the professional role
• Unprofessional behaviour or attitudes
• Health concerns and lack of insight or management of these concerns
4. The time to completion for each of these FTP investigations, and any related appeals.
Yours faithfully,
Sarah Steele
Dear Sarah,
Thank you for your request under the information Act of 2000. Your
reference number is FOI19-141
We will consider your request and respond in due course.
The data you provide to allow us to process your request is collected so
that you are able to exercise your lawful rights under the Freedom of
Information Act. Your personal data will be held by the Information
Governance Office and shared with relevant staff as necessary.
Once a request has been completed, the relevant data will be held by the
Information Governance Office for three years in line with ICO guidance,
this is to ensure the University has fully carried out its requirements
under the legislation.
For further information on how we process your personal data, please see:
[1]http://www.exeter.ac.uk/dataprotection/
The University should respond to your FOI request as soon as possible and
no later than twenty working days after the date of receipt of the
request. Should The University be required to undertake a public interest
test relating to the potential application of a qualified exemption we may
extend the time frame by up to twenty additional days. Please be aware
that our response time takes into account the workloads of the Information
Governance Office and relevant data owners and will therefore not always
correlate with the complexity of the request. Should The University seek
clarification any resulting time spent awaiting communication will not be
counted against that time limit.
Regards,
Jude
Information Governance Support
Tel 01392 727510
University of Exeter
[2]www.exeter.ac.uk
Lafrowda House, St. German’s Road, Exeter, EX4 6TL
This email and any attachment may contain information that is
confidential, privileged, or subject to copyright, and which may be exempt
from disclosure under applicable legislation. It is intended for the
addressee only. If you received this message in error, please let me know
and delete the email and any attachments immediately. The University will
not accept responsibility for the accuracy/completeness of this email and
its attachments.
Dear Sarah,
Please find the University's response to you Freedom of Information
Request attached.
Kind regards,
Information Governance Support
Tel 01392 727510
University of Exeter
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/foi/summary/
Lafrowda House, St. German’s Road, Exeter, EX4 6TL
This email and any attachment may contain information that is
confidential, privileged, or subject to copyright, and which may be exempt
from disclosure under applicable legislation. It is intended for the
addressee only. If you received this message in error, please let me know
and delete the email and any attachments immediately. The University will
not accept responsibility for the accuracy/completeness of this email and
its attachments.
We work to defend the right to FOI for everyone
Help us protect your right to hold public authorities to account. Donate and support our work.
Donate Now