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What Expol Was Asked to do
The documents were released after an FoI request from Paul Moulton.
A private investigator was asked to ‘ascertain the causes of apparently inaccurate documents being created and held’ by Manx Care and the DHSC.
The DHSC has released the terms of reference for Expol’s investigation into allegations of concocted documents from the Dr Rosalind Ranson tribunal.
Expol was brought in following concerns raised by Dr Ranson’s advocate about the authenticity of the documents presented. This included one document that said she had attended a meeting before she was employed by the DHSC and another which referenced a senior medical leaders team which didn’t exist at the time. Metadata produced also showed that the document had been created four days before the employment tribunal hearing.
Despite this, the report by Expol found that there was no evidence of documents being concocted. Others
The documents were released after an FoI request from Paul Moulton, but only after he criticised the delay to his request while the DHSC was ‘considering a qualified exemption for some of the information we are releasing’.
In the remit given to Expol by the DHSC, it was asked to ascertain the circumstances in which the documents were created (by whom and when etc.) and/or modified and to undertake systems and document interrogation as may required to reach findings.
It was also asked to interrogate systems and documents and to speak to ‘all relevant staff’ at Manx Care and the department who were involved in the management of the documents.
Furthermore, it was asked to report to the DHSC with a short summary regarding to metadata and/or provide provenance checks, including the reliability of the metadata referred to by the tribunal and report to the DHSC with ‘root cause of other findings wherever possible relevant to the provenance and/or inaccuracies in each of the three identified documents.
Finally, it was asked to identify any areas where it has not been possible to reach a finding and/or the gaps and/or inconsistencies and identify whether and at what point Dr Ranson was in possession of specific documents.
You can find the documents here.
