Information Governance
Request ID: 13186 
Freedom of Information request - Staff resignations -  
Created Date | May 19, 2024 10:15 AM 

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Dear Tim,
This is an acknowledgement mail for your request. Your request has been
created with id 13186. The title of the request is: Freedom of Information
request - Staff resignations.

Kind regards,

Information Governance

South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

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Information Governance - Freedom of Information

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Good morning,

I refer to our acknowledgement in respect of your request for information
under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.  

Please see below response to your questions below:-

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│Information Requested ║Trust Response       │
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│- Could you please outline the number of ║ │
│resignations that have occurred over the period ║ │
│from 1st January 2021 to present date. ║ │
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│- Please include all staff grades/positions and ║ │
│where possible provide a reason for the ║ │
│resignation if known e.g. moving to a different ║ │
│position, retiring, resigning, etc. ║ │
│ ║ │
│  ║ │
│ ║ │
│- In particular I would like you to provide the ║ │
│numbers of staff that have left the Emergency ║ │
│Operations Centres (EOC) in this period. This ║ │
│means to outline both the staff that have left the║ │
│EOC to mean leaving the service completely, or ║ │
│moving to a different role. ║ │
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│  ║ │
│ ║ │
│- Please also outline how many staff have left the║ │
│service for health reasons. ║ │
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│  ║ │
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│Please see the attached spreadsheet ║ │
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 Please note that, under the Re-use of Public Sector Information
Regulations, if you wish to publish or otherwise use this information
besides for your own means, you will need to seek our permission to do so.

Please feel free to contact me if you require further clarification of the
information provided, or to discuss any aspect of the way in which we have
responded to your request. 

However, if you are dissatisfied with our response, you also have the
right to make use of the following complaints procedures:

In the first instance you may write to the Chief Executive of this Trust:

Dr John Martin

South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

Abbey Court

Eagle Way

Exeter  EX2 7HY

Dr Martin will then either make arrangements for your complaint to be
reviewed and for the outcome to be communicated to you, or will convene a
panel of Trust Directors to consider an appeal against a decision to
withhold information.

If you are unhappy with the response to your complaint, or findings of the
Panel, you can contact the Information Commissioner at:

Information Commissioner’s Office,

Wycliffe House,

Water Lane,                                

Wilmslow,

Cheshire.  SK9 5AF

Tel: 01625 545 700

Kind regards,

Information Governance Team 

South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

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Information Governance
Request ID: 13488 
Internal review of Freedom of Information request - Staff resignations -  
Created Date | May 26, 2024 12:37 PM 

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Dear Tim,
This is an acknowledgement mail for your request. Your request has been
created with id 13488. The title of the request is: Internal review of
Freedom of Information request - Staff resignations.

Kind regards,

Information Governance

South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

This email is sent on behalf of South Western Ambulance NHS Foundation
Trust and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged. If you
are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by
return e-mail, and then delete the email without making any copies or
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guaranteed to be secure or error or virus free. You should carry out your
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Dear Tim,
 
Thank you for your request for an internal review. 
I have conducted a review of your request. 
Following your initial request, you required data on the following:-
- Could you please outline the number of resignations that have occurred
over the period from 1st January 2021 to present date.
- Please include all staff grades/positions and where possible provide a
reason for the resignation if known e.g. moving to a different position,
retiring, resigning, etc.
- In particular I would like you to provide the numbers of staff that have
left the Emergency Operations Centres (EOC) in this period. This means to
outline both the staff that have left the EOC to mean leaving the service
completely, or moving to a different role.
- Please also outline how many staff have left the service for health
reasons.
Although your request in itself is not deemed as 'Personal Data' the
statistics that we were presented with were low numbers in places, meaning
that this could be deemed personal data indirectly, therefore we had to
limit what was shared due to this reason. 
This is why we deem this as 'Personal Data' in this instance as some of
the data sets are linked to one individual and this would potentially
identify them directly or indirectly from this disclosure.
Therefore we are upholding our decision in this instance as we have a duty
to protect the confidentiality of our staff. 
If you are not fully satisfied with this outcome you can raise this with
the ICO. 
Kind regards
IG Team

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