Thursday 03 December
2020
EMAIL foi@rcog.org.uk
Ms Emma Goode: emmasmith90@yahoo.com Sent by email
Dear Ms Goode
and Mr Morris,
Thank you for your two RFIs submitted under the FOIA, received Wednesday 25
November 2020.
Your request
Please see a copy of
your requests attached and our response
below.
For your background information:
·
The Freedom of
Information Act 2000 (FOIA) governs
the handling and disclosure of official information held by public
authorities, such as NHS
Trusts and hospitals.
·
The General Data Protection Regulation 2016 (GDPR)
governs the handling and disclosure of personal data held by all
organisations.
·
The hospital who delivered the
clinical treatment is responsible for the delivery of that treatment and has the expertise to provide medical advice.
Our response
The Royal
College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (the College) is not a public
authority and therefore not subject
to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).
The College does
not hold any of Ms Goode’s personal data requested and cannot answer to the clinical
care delivered so you and Ms Goode need to
redirect these questions to the
(ICO): https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/. If you are unhappy with the clinical care delivered by the hospital, you are able
to complain to them directly or to the NHS: https://www.nhs.uk/using-the-nhs/about-the-nhs/how-to-complain-to-the-nhs/.
In addition to
the above advice and guidance with regard to your rights of access to an organisation’s information, you may find a
helpful public information leaflet relevant to Ms Goode’s condition from the following College website page: https://www.rcog.org.uk/en/patients/patient-leaflets/.
Your next steps
If you have any
further queries about this RFI, please contact the Information Governance (IG) Team using the email and postal address
at the top of this letter or call us between
9:00am – 4:30pm
(UK time) Monday to Friday.
If you are
unhappy with how we handled your request and would like to make a complaint, please contact the College with any
further queries: https://www.rcog.org.uk/en/about- us/policies/complaints-policy/.
Yours sincerely,
Ms Ciara Shimidzu
Head of Information and Governance
