Request

please give me the Name of the Medical assessor who raised this report ?

Response

I can confirm that this information is held by the NHSBSA as it is included in the medical report received from the medical assessment supplier. The name of the medical assessor is redacted before this report is disclosed to the claimant or their representative. Given this will allow the medical assessor to be identified and for the same reasons as detailed for the GMC number, this information would not be disclosed under the exemption in section 40 subsections 2 and 3A (a) of the Freedom of Information Act.

Disclosure of the name and location is likely to result in considerable distress to the medical assessor.

Disclosing this information would be unfair and as such this would breach the UK GDPR first data protection principle, as the medical assessor has not consented to this disclosure.

Therefore, this information falls under the exemption in section 40 subsections 2 and 3A (a) of the Freedom of Information Act. This is because it would breach the first data protection principle as:

a) it is not fair to disclose medical assessors’ personal details to the world and is likely to cause damage or distress.

b) these details are not of sufficient interest to the public to warrant an intrusion into the privacy of the medical assessor.

Please click the below web link to see the exemption in full. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/section/40

Please note that this request and our response is published on our Freedom of Information disclosure log at:

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-01311

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