NHS West Sussex Clinical Commissioning Group

The complainant has made two requests for information relating to the provision of continuing health care for patients with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI). The first was for the job description of the officer responsible for commissioning such care and the second for the standard contract used when commissioning the care. NHS West Sussex Clinical Commissioning Group (the CCG) has withheld the job description under section 40 on the basis that it is the personal data of the post holder. It did eventually provide a copy of the relevant ‘standard contract’. The Commissioner’s decision is that the CCG is not entitled to withhold the job description under section 40. To avoid the risk of disclosing any personal data relating to the post holder in the public version of this notice, a confidential identifying the specific role has been provided to the CCG and the complainant. The Commissioner finds that the CCG has now provided all the information relating to the standard contract. However by disclosing this information outside the 20 working days the CCG has breached section 10. The CCG has also breached section 10 by failing to provide the job description. The Commissioner requires the public authority to disclose the job description identified in the confidential annex.