Sunday 27 September 2026
Internal Reference Number: FOI_9505
Date Request Received: 02/07/2026 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 24/07/2026 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Disciplinary action for inappropriate record access
Request Category: Media
| Question Number 1: I would like to make a Freedom of Information request. Definitions used in this request: • "Staff" means all individuals with authorised access to the trust's electronic patient record system(s), including substantive staff, bank staff, agency and locum staff, and students/trainees on placement. • "Inappropriately accessed patient records" means access to a patient's record without clinical, administrative, or other business reason, as determined through the trust's own investigation and/or disciplinary process (regardless of whether the access was also reported as a data breach). Can I please request the following information under the Freedom of Information act: 1. How many members of staff received a disciplinary sanction for inappropriately accessing patients' records, in each of the following financial years: a) 2022-23 b) 2023-24 c) 2024-25 d) 2025-26 e) 2026-27 to date | |
| Answer To Question 1: Please see attached response for Q1-3 To accompany this answer to question 1 please also see the documents listed below:  FOI 9505 Q1-3 responses.pdf | |
| Question Number 2: Please list the type of disciplinary sanction(s) - for example informal counselling, training, verbal warning, first written warning, final written warning, dismissal - handed out to staff for inappropriately accessing patients' records in each of the following financial years. For each type of sanction, please also list the number of staff served with this type of sanction each year. a) 2022-23 b) 2023-24 c) 2024-25 d) 2025-26 e) 2026-27 to date If this aggregate data is not held in a readily reportable format and would exceed the appropriate cost limit under section 12 of FOIA, I would be grateful if you could instead provide, for each year: (i) the total number of dismissals, and (ii) the total number of all other (non-dismissal) sanctions, as a reasonable proxy that should require substantially less staff time to compile. | |
| Answer To Question 2: Please see attached | |
| Question Number 3: How many staff were found, following investigation, to have inappropriately accessed patients' records but received no disciplinary sanction in each of the following financial years: a) 2022-23 b) 2023-24 c) 2024-25 d) 2025-26 e) 2026-27 to date | |
| Answer To Question 3: Please see attached | |
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Our staff at Salisbury District Hospital have long been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment they provide for our patients and for their innovation, commitment and professionalism. This has been recognised in a wide range of achievements and it is reflected in our award of NHS Foundation Trust status. This is afforded to hospitals that provide the highest standards of care.
