South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust

The complainant has requested from the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust (“the Trust”) the number of Serious Adverse Incident reports compiled within the Trust during the 2011/12 financial year. He also requested copies of those reports. The Trust disclosed the number of reports and a brief summary of each incident, however it refused to disclose copies of the reports, citing sections 40(2) and 41 of FOIA as a basis for non-disclosure. The Commissioner’s decision is that the Trust has correctly applied the above exemptions to the withheld information.