Freedom of information requests

Subject access requests GDPR

Questions

1. How many SARs (not other types of data protection requests) have been made to the trust in the last 12 months?
2. How many SAR requests have gone over a deadline (either the standard 30 day allocation or the extended 90 day allocation for more complicated responses)?
3. How many staff are usually contacted to provide data to contribute to the request?
4. On average how many hours are spent dealing with a SAR?
5. Do you have any software to assist with SAR production and if so, which?
6. Who has budget responsibility over the costs & resources required to respond to the SARs? Please provide

 

Response

1. Approximately 12,000
2. Compliance is around 80%
3. Anywhere between 1-20
4. We do not hold this information.
5. Adobe Acrobat.
6. No single person or budget – SAR responses can often require input from many different departments eg Medical Records, IT, IG, HR.