Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Date 14 January 2019
- Sector Health
- Decision(s) FOI 10(1): Upheld, FOI 43(2): Not upheld
The complainant has requested Clinical Pathology Accreditation (CPA) and/or the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) reports/correspondence from 2016 to the date of his request for all laboratories under the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust (RLBUHT) management concerning the revoking of laboratory accreditation. The Commissioner’s decision is that Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals Trust (RLBUHT) has correctly applied section 43(2) of the FOIA to the requested information and that the public interest favours maintaining the exemption. However, the Commissioner’s decision is that the RLBUHT has breached section 10(1) of the FOIA in that it failed to provide a valid response to the request within the statutory time frame of 20 working days. The Commissioner requires no steps to be taken.