Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust

The complainant has requested information relating to complaints or compensation claims against a named surgeon. The Commissioner’s decision is that Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust (the ‘Trust’) has breached section 10 of the FOIA by failing to meet its obligations under section 1 of the Act. The Commissioner requires the public authority to provide a response to the complainant to confirm or deny whether it holds any information that falls within the request; and communicate the information it holds to the complainant and/or issue a refusal notice in respect of all or parts of the information it intends to withhold in accordance with section 17 of the FOIA.