University College London Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

The complainant requested information, for a specified period of time, about the number of patients admitted to the ITU, how many of those had died and how many referrals there had been to the coroner. By the date of this notice, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (“the Trust”) had not issued a substantive response to part 2 of this request. The Commissioner’s decision is that the Trust has breached section 10(1) of FOIA in that it failed to provide a valid response to both part 1 and part 2 of the request within the statutory time frame of 20 working days. The Commissioner requires the Trust to take the following step to ensure compliance with the legislation: The Trust must provide a substantive response to part 2 of the request in accordance with its obligations under FOIA.