Christie NHS Foundation Trust

The complainant has requested information associated with diagnosis and procedure codes. The Christie NHS Foundation Trust (‘the Trust’) relied on section 21(1) of FOIA to refuse the request, advising that the  information they’ve requested was already reasonably accessible to the complainant. The Commissioner’s decision is that the Trust was entitled to refuse the request under section 21(1) of FOIA. The Trust breached section 17(1) however, as it didn’t provide a refusal notice within the required timescale. The Commissioner does not require further steps.