Fortress NHS refuses information

It's claimed that NHS staff breached confidentiality rules more than 800 times over three years.

Big Brother Watch gathered the details from a Freedom of Information (FOI) request returned by 152 Trusts covering the period from July 2008 to July this year. Some of them are here.

So transparency rules?

A total of 44 NHS trusts of the 428 which were contacted failed to respond to the FOI request and 55 others refused to release all or some of the information requested.

Who do they think they are? Our masters, perhaps?

Did your NHS trust refuse to answer? Several said the information wasn't held centrally. How hard could it be to get it? Anyway, they're listed from page 107 of the document here. Have fun, the software isn't user-friendly.