Request

To whom it may concern, Please advise of the following:

1. What were the dates of the November and December 2021 EIBSS Focus Group meetings?

2. Whether EIBSS informed all of its registrants of those meetings?

3. If not, how many registrants were informed?

4. At the time of the meetings, how many EIBSS registrants were ‘signed up’ to receive information about the EIBSS focus group?

5. How many of of those were informed of the November and December 2021 meetings?

6. How many EIBSS registrants attended the November Focus group meeting?

7. How many of those were bereaved spouse/partner category registrants?

8. How many EIBSS registrants attended the December Focus group meeting?

9. How many of those were bereaved spouse/partner category registrants?

10. As of 30th November 2021, what was the total number of EIBSS registrants?

11. As of 30th November 2021, what was the total number of bereaved spouse/partner category registrants?

Response

Question 1

30/11/21, 01/12/21 & 03/12/21

Question 2

No, all scheme beneficiaries are welcome to attend and Focus Groups are also documented in the published Annual reports.

Questions 3 - 5

68 beneficiaries

Question 6.

6

Questions 7

No bereaved partner has registered an interest to attend EIBSS Focus Groups

Question 8.

a) 01/12/21

5

b) 03/12/21

Fewer Than 5

Please be aware that I have decided not to release the numbers of registrants where the total number of registrants falls below 5. This is because the registrants could be identified, when combined with other information that may be in the public domain or reasonably available.

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 registrants’ 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 patients.

Please click the below web link to see the exemption in full.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/section/40

Question 9.

No bereaved partner has registered an interest to attend EIBSS Focus Groups

Question 10.

As of the 01 December 2021, there were 3093 EIBSS registrants

Question 11.

As of the 01 December 2021, there were 477 bereaved spouse/partner registrants

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

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-22318

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