Information Commissioner's Office

Dr J A Goldin

30 June 2008, Health (Doctors)

The complainant made a request for the work history of a General Practitioner (GP) (who, for the purposes of the Act is considered to be a public authority in his own right in respect of information relating to the provision of general medical services). The public authority withheld the information requested on the basis of the exemption contained in section 40(2). The Commissioner considered the case and upheld the public authority’s reliance on section 40(2). However the Commissioner found the public authority had breached section 17(1)(b) of the Act.

FOI 40: Partly upheld