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RE Official information request CDHB 10349 and WCDHB 9447
I refer to your email dated 7 July 2020 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from Canterbury DHB and West Coast DHB regarding breast reconstruction following a mastectomy. Specifically:
West Coast DHB: This level of plastic or reconstructive surgery for women from the West Coast is undertaken through tertiary services at Canterbury DHB.
RE Official information request WCDHB 9454
I refer to your email dated 24 July 2020 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB regarding dietitians. Specifically:
1. The actual number of dietitians – i.e. headcount.
2. The number of dietitians on each salary step.
3. For continuing professional development for DHB employed dietitians:
• Total budget for 2018 and 2019 financial years
• Total spend for 2018 and 2019 financial years
• A breakdown of:
• Spend on training
• Spend on all other professional development.
RE Official information request WCDHB 9453
I refer to your email dated 23 July 2020 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB regarding Pharmacy Assistants, Trainee Pharmacy Technicians, Pharmacy Technicians, Intern Pharmacists, and Pharmacists. Specifically:
1. The actual number of Pharmacists – i.e. headcount.
a. The actual number of Pharmacy Technicians – i.e. headcount
b. The actual number of Pharmacy Assistants – i.e. headcount
c. The number of employees, broken down into Pharmacists, Technicians, and assistants on each salary step.
2. For continuing professional development for DHB employed pharmacy staff:
a. Total budget for 2018 and 2019 financial years
b. Total spend for 2018 and 2019 financial years
c. A breakdown of:
RE Official information request WCDHB 9460
I refer to your email dated 4 August 2020 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB. Specifically:
1. Does the Board have a policy to prioritise Maori and/or Pasifka patients on elective surgery waiting lists?
2. If so, how long has this policy been in force and when is it scheduled to end?
3. If so, what is the rationale for this policy?
4. If so, is the policy based on the pressures of deferred surgery due to COVID-19?
5. If there is no such policy, why has the Board not followed the lead of the Capital and Coast District Health Board?
6. What is the current number of deferred elective surgeries due to the pressures of COVID-19?
I refer to your email dated 21 July 2020 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB. Specifically:
RE Official information request WCDHB 9450
I refer to your email dated 7 July 2020 sent to Ministry of Health which they subsequently transferred to us on 21 July 2020 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB. Specifically:
1. The number of complaints from mental health workers alleging they were assaulted in the workplace within the last 3 years.
2. The number of complaints from health workers alleging they were assaulted while working at the Emergency Department over the last three years. age, sex, job title of the complainant
3. The number of complaints from health workers who have made allegations they were assaulted while working at maternity services over the last 3 years.
RE Official information request WCDHB 9449
I refer to your email dated 8 July 2020 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB. Specifically:
1. What percentage of your usual clinical workforce is overseas-trained?
2. If possible, please provide percentages of overseas-trained staffers in each of these categories: doctors, nurses, midwives, and allied health, science and technical professionals.
3. What impact do you expect border restrictions to have on the DHB workforce over the next year?
4. Are there specialities likely to be under pressure as a result of border restrictions? For example, because there is a small workforce in New Zealand or because of overseas training needs. If so, which specialties?
5. Is your DHB currently recruiting for any clinical positions which you cannot fill with New Zealand applicants?
6. If so, how many, and what is/are the positions?
7. Have you had any overseas-trained and recruited clinicians cut contracts short and return home because of Covid?
8. If so, how many, and in what category (doctor, nurse…)?
RE Official information request WCDHB 9457
I refer to email dated 28 July 2020 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB. Specifically:
1. The total number of annual leave days taken by (all) Senior Medical Officers (SMOs) in your employ in each of the following months: December 2018, January 2019, December 2019 and January 2020
Advisory Committee Papers for 10 September 2020 Meeting
RE Official information request WCDHB 9455
I refer to your email dated 27 July 2020 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB. Specifically:
The total number of days annual leave taken by RMOs at your DHB between 23 December 2019 and 12 January 2020.
RE Official information request WCDHB 9441
I refer to your email dated 29 June 2020 requesting information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB regarding a survey you are conducting into “How a person with cancer has their oral health needs assessed and addressed at each stage of their cancer journey in NZ”.
Hospital dental services for people with cancer of the head and neck and of blood tumour streams for residents of the West Coast are primarily provided by and through specialist tertiary services at Canterbury DHB.
RE: OFFICIAL INFORMATION ACT REQUEST WCDHB 9397
I refer to your email dated 21 February 2020 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB.
RE Official information request WCDHB 9444
I refer to your email dated 3 July 2020 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB. Specifically:
Please may I see the Covid-19 preparedness assessments done on the six West Coast aged care providers.
RE Official information request WCDHB 9443
I refer to your email dated 30 June 2020 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB. Specifically:
1. How many anaesthetic technicians are employed by the DHB and for each technician please provide the following: their FTE, their length of service as per their employment agreement, and what step on the salary scale they are paid, and what the salary for the step they are on is.
2. How much anaesthetic technician FTE is currently vacant at the DHB;
3. The number of anaesthetic technician trainees currently employed at the DHB;
4. The number of Maori and Pacifica anaesthetic technicians and trainees (identified separately) are employed at the DHB;
5. Both the budget for and the actual amount of money spent by the DHB on professional development for anaesthetic technicians in the 12 months from 1 June 2019 to 1 June 2020;
6. How much has been spent on locum and contractor anaesthetic technicians in the 12 months from 1 June 2019 to 1 June 2020. This will include all salary, wage or contractor fees as well as incidentals such as recruitment costs, travel and accommodation for such individuals.
RE Official information request CDHB 10335 and WCDHB 9437
I refer to your email dated 18 June 2020 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from Canterbury DHB and West Coast DHB.
The current Ethnicity information for the Canterbury and the West Coast DHB. Please also provide the same information as at 31 March 2017 or a date as close as possible to three years ago. Please provide the answers for the four following groups (Maori male, Maori female, Total male, total female).
RE Official information request WCDHB 9446
I refer to your email dated 21 June 2020 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB regarding the number of patients in psychiatric hospitals 1990 to 2010. I note your request was clarified on 7 July 2020. Specifically:
• The number of persons confined ‘living’ in Seaview Asylum in the years 1990 to 2010. Either as at 31 December of the year or annual average. Please include the proportion of people confined per 100,000 population (rate of confinement).
RE Official information request WCDHB 9445
I refer to your email dated 8 July 2020 requesting information from West Coast DHB under the Official Information Act on the number of locum and permanent doctors, and nurses, working at Buller Health for the year to 30 June 2020.
Buller Health includes both the general practice (Buller Medical) as well as the hospital service, and has doctors covering both areas. The doctors’ employment with us is not split or differentiated between general practice and hospital systems. For the purpose of this request, we have included all doctors working as either locum or permanent employees engaged in the Buller Health system.
1. How many locum doctors did Buller Health employ in the year to June 30, 2020, and how many FTE positions does that equate to?
2. How many permanent GPs did Buller Health employ in the same period and how many FTE positions does that equate to?
3. How many permanent GPs did Buller Health employ at June 30, 2020, and how many FTE positions does that equate to?
4. What was the cost of locum doctors for salaries and other expenses?
5. What was the minimum and maximum length of stay among locum doctors working at Buller Health during the year?
6. What was the cost of permanent doctors for salaries and other expenses?
7. How many practice nurses did Buller Health employ in the year to June 30, 2020, and what does that equate to in FTEs?
8. What was the cost of practice nurses for the year to June 30, 2020?
RE Official information request CDHB 10344 and WCDHB 9442
I refer to your email dated 19 May 2020 to TAS which they subsequently transferred to us on 29 June 2020 requesting information under the Official Information Act from Canterbury DHB and West Coast DHB. Specifically:
• To provide the “Letter of Understanding” between the District Heath Boards (the DHBs) and the Public Service Association (the PSA) regarding an increase of penal rates for PSA members, effective 13 April 2020.
RE Official information request WCDHB 9448
I refer to your email dated 6 May 2020 to the Ministry of Health and which they partially transferred to us (received 9 July 2020) requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB. Specifically questions 3 and 4 of your original request:
This request relates to the period 30 January 2020 (when Covid-19 became a public health emergency of international concern) and 30 April 2020.”
3. Covid-19 hospitalisation numbers by Māori, non-Māori, Māori with lived experience of disability (tāngata whaikaha) and non-Māori with lived experience of disability.
4. Covid-19 mortality numbers by Māori, non-Māori, Māori with lived experience of disability (tāngata whaikaha) and non-Māori with lived experience of disability.
Board Papers for the West Coast DHB Board meeting Friday, 7 August 2020 meeting
CEO Expenses 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020 for West Coast DHB.
The purpose of regular public disclosure of Chief Executive’s (CE) expenses is to provide transparency and accountability for discretionary expenditure by CEs of Public Service departments and statutory Crown entities.
RE Official information request WCDHB 9439
I refer to your email dated 23 June 2020 requesting the following information under the Official
Information Act from West Coast DHB. Specifically:
The protocols the DHB had/have in relation to access for support people in the hospitals within your
DHB region during Level 2 lockdown (between 14 May and 8 June) and Level 1.
RE Official information request CDHB 10340 & WCDHB 9440
I refer to your email dated 17 June 2020 to the Ministry of Health, which they have subsequently partially
transferred to us on 24 June 2020, requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from
Canterbury DHB and West Coast DHB. Specifically:
DHB policies in regard to reporting unsafe, harmful, criminal behaviour, including the re-routing and
interception of private communications, and policies on how they document such incidents and how they are to
safeguard against such incidents.
Total number of incidents involving an allegation that a member of the public had impersonated a physician 1/5/2019 – 31/8/2019.
Total number of incidents involving an allegation that a member of the public had gained unauthorised access to a surgical theatre or pathology lab 1/5/2019 – 13/8/2019.
Total number of incidents involving an allegation that a DHB employee had engaged in the interception of private email communications between a patient and a DHB employee between 1/1/2019 and 29/5/2020.
RE Official information request WCDHB 9438
I refer to your email dated 23 June 2020 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act
from West Coast DHB regarding Grey Base Acute and Community Mental Health facility. Specifically:
1. Please can you also provide a copy of the new detailed seismic assessment.
Please find attached as Appendix 1 the Grey Base Hospital Acute and Community Mental Health Detailed
Seismic Assessment dated 22 June 2020.
Please note we have redacted information pursuant to section 9(2)(a) of the Official Information Act i.e. ….to
protect the privacy of natural persons, including those deceased”.
RE Official information request CDHB 10330 and WCDHB 9435
I refer to your email dated 8 June 2020 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from Canterbury DHB and West Coast DHB. Specifically:
RE Official information request WCDHB 9431
We refer to your email dated 27 May 2020 to the Ministry of Health which they subsequently transferred to us on 29 May 2020 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB re paging systems used in hospitals for important messages. Specifically:
RE Official Information Act request CDHB 10325 AND WCDHB 9433
I refer to your email dated 30 May 2020 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from Canterbury DHB AND West Coast DHB re publication of all DHB Policies, Protocols and Best Practice Documents. Specifically:
1. That your DHB make ALL your DHB policies, protocols and best practice documents publicly available.
2. Is your DHB laboratory and radiology departments, or the agencies your DHB has contract out pathology and radiology services, IANZ accredited?
Gender Bias in health system:
All with breakdown by gender, ethnicity and age.
RE Official information request WCDHB 9432
We refer to your email dated 1 June 2020 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB re Covid-19 hospitalisation costs. Specifically:
RE Official information request CDHB 10318 and WCDHB 9430
I request pursuant to the OIA:
Board Papers for the West Coast DHB Board meeting Friday, 26 June 2020 meeting
RE Official information request WCDHB 9426
We refer to your email dated 25 April 2020 which the Ministry of Health subsequently partially transferred to
West Coast DHB on 12 May 2020 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act.
Specifically questions 1 and 2:
1. Please provide a copy of the permission granted by Greymouth MOH for the 2014 Kaiata Range aerial
1080 operation conducted by Tb-Free NZ. The File Reference number is 4/767/GRYPH/CB.
A copy of this permission is attached as Appendix 1.
2. Please provide a copy of the audit of this operation.
A copy of the field audit notes and photographs taken by the field auditors are attached as Appendix 2.
Please note we have redacted information pursuant to section 9(2)(a) of the Official Information Act “… to
protect the privacy of individuals”.
RE Official information request WCDHB 9427
We refer to your email dated 14 May 2020 requesting the following information from West Coast DHB under the Official Information Act. Specifically:
1. I wish to receive information relating to the number of births at West Coast District Health Board facilities and home births during the nationwide coronavirus lockdown from March 25 to April 27.
2. Can this information be broken down by location: at Grey Base Hospital, other West Coast DHB facilities, or a home birth, and by date and sex.
3. Can figures also be provided for the same period in 2019.
RE Official information request WCDHB 9434
I refer to your email dated 25 May 2020 to the Ministry of Health which they subsequently transferred to us on 3 June 2020 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB re West Coast Fetal and Infant Mortality. Specifically:
RE Official information request WCDHB 9429
We refer to your email dated 11 May 2020 to the Ministry of Health which they have subsequently partially transferred to us on 21 May 2020 requesting the following information from West Coast DHB under the Official Information Act. Specifically question 1 below.
1. Given that Electroconvulsive Treatment has been used as a method of torture historically in New Zealand, can you please inform me of the precise number of these devices in NZ hospitals in present time?
RE Official information request CDHB 10308 and WCDHB 9425
We refer to your email dated 7 May 2020 requesting the following information from Canterbury DHB and West Coast DHB under the Official Information Act regarding the use of requisitioning powers.
In terms of the Official Information Act, please provide me with detail on your organisation’s use of requisitioning powers authorised under the state of emergency or under the epidemic notice. I would like to know what sorts of goods have been requisitioned, how frequently this has happened, and what compensation has been offered.
Note that I am making the same request of the Ministry of Health, the District Health Boards, and Civil Defence.
1. I would like copies of any requisition orders provided under 90(3) of the Civil Defence Emergency Management Act, as well as copies of any requisition orders produced under 90(5) of the same Act. I also request detail of any compensation provided.
2. I would also like copies of any requisition orders produced under 71 (1) of the Public Health Act, also with detail of any compensation provided.
3. Please also provide any background papers, policies, guidelines, advice, or related documents on the use of requisitioning powers
RE Official information request WCDHB 9417
We refer to your email dated 14 April 2020 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB regarding 1080 operations in the Buller region. Specifically:
1. Could you please supply the log sent from DOC officer 9 (2)(a) to the WCDHB Medical Officer of Health for applications 19/1228/CB/GRYPH and 19/1183/CB/GRYPH to supply “..sufficient evidence to demonstrate compliance with EPA Communication Guidelines for 1080 Operations” and supplying the records of the consultation on managing the public health risks prior to the aerial two 1080 operations above
2. What was the evidence provided that demonstrated that the guidelines had been complied with?
3. What public health risks were identified and how were they to be managed, and how were they managed?
4. Please supply the audits and reports of the whole 1080 operations that resulted in the large presence of carcasses of rats and non-target species on the beach at Westport; including the decision to bury (as opposed to the required disposal in a toxic waste site) and the actual burial.
5. As there was no supervision of the operation by DHB staff who decided that beach burial was adequate in order to safeguard public, animal and environmental health?
RE Official information request CDHB 10313 and WCDHB 9428
We refer to your email dated 3 May 2020 to the Ministry of Health which they partially transferred to us on 18 May 2020 requesting the following information from Canterbury DHB and West Coast DHB under the Official Information Act. Specifically Question 1:
1. What percentage of NZ COV-19 deaths to date had Do Not Resuscitate orders?
RE Official information request CDHB 10303 and WCDHB 9422
We refer to your letter dated 25 March 2020 and received 30 April 2020 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from Canterbury DHB and West Coast DHB with regard to Personal Protection Equipment (PPE), CT scanners, Oxygen tanks and Ventilators. Specifically:
We are asking all DHBs to share with us, and ideally place on their websites, the following information as applicable on the items listed below: the locations (e.g. hospital name), quantities, brand names, number of uses (i.e. are they disposable or reusable?), purchase dates and expiry dates:
1 – 6 . Gowns, Masks, Goggles , Gloves, Disinfectant (e.g. bleach) and Hand sanitiser
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