Hospital inspection reports — CIC

Quick Reply: Routine inspection and regulatory-compliance reports of hospitals are public-health records — disclosable. Hospital / nursing-home inspection reports are. </WRAP>

Hospital / nursing-home inspection reports are public-interest compliance records — disclosable. ===== Case details ===== ^ Court | Central Information Commission | ^ Decided | 2018-01-01 | ^ Citation | Citation awaited | ^ Petitioner | RTI applicant | ^ Respondent | Hospital / Medical authority | ^ RTI Act sections | §4, §8 | ^ Outcome | Applicant allowed | ===== Outcome ===== Routine inspection and regulatory-compliance reports of hospitals are public-health records — disclosable. ===== Ratio decidendi ===== Inspection reports prepared by Drugs Control, CGHS, State Medical Councils and similar regulatory bodies on hospitals and nursing homes are compliance records. They are disclosable as public-health information, with narrow §8(1)(j) carve-outs for individual patient data. ===== Keywords ===== hospitals, inspection reports, CIC, public health ===== Similar cases in the corpus ===== These rulings have the closest editorial ratio to this case — computed by tf-idf cosine similarity over ratio, keywords and Act sections. Useful starting points if you are researching the same point of law. * Inspection of records under RTI — CIC guidance (CIC 2013) * Reserve Bank of India — PIO's information denial (CIC) (CIC 2011) * Reserve Bank of India v. Jayantilal N. Mistry (SC 2015) * NGT order compliance records — Rajasthan HC (HC-RAJ 2021) * SEBI inspection records — CIC (CIC 2018) ===== Related ===== * All Central Information Commission rulings in the corpus * All RTI cases turning on §4 * All RTI cases turning on §8 * Full case-law search * Case-Law Database — overview * PIO RTI Reply Guide * The RTI Act, 2005 — annotated

Editorial summary · last reviewed 21 April 2026.