Who decides if a request is vexatious?
It is to be decided within the practice whether or not a request is vexatious, however, the GPC would recommend that even when a competent staff member has decided that a request is most likely vexatious, it is advisable to refer the decision to a senior staff member/partner, given that the judgement may be contentious and have to be defended. 16. We have been asked to provide information on the number of cases of mumps, measles and rubella (MMR), and also on the uptake of the MMR jab by a local newspaper. We only hold this information in individual records. We could find out this information, but are we required to extract it under the Act? If a practice holds raw data and receives a query for analysis it is not required to extract this information in order to provide it to the applicant. In the above scenario, the Data Protection Act would prevent all of the personal records from being disclosable. The time it would take to anonymise all of the records in order to provide the informa
