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Advisory Committee Papers for 10 March 2022 Meeting
Tatau Pounamu Advisory Group meeting papers for 11 March 2022 meeting. Due to COVID-19 restrictions this is held via Zoom video conference meeting.
West Coast Primary Healthcare – Costs to run General Practices
What is the current size of the waiting list for all skin cancer referrals to your DHB as follows: •Initial consultation appointment for suspected or confirmed BCC, SCC and melanoma
•Surgical appointment for melanoma excision. •Surgical appointment for BCC or SCC excision. I would also like to know to what extent, if any, your DHB funds GPs or private providers to carry out any SCC, BCC or melanoma excisions on an annual basis (e.g. for 2021).
How many people had a cancer misdiagnosis in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021? how many people had a delayed diagnosis of cancer in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021?
Official guidance documents we use in New Zealand to cover the handling and transportation of microbiology samples from provincial hospitals to centralized testing laboratories.
I expect that official guidance would cover aspects such as reported by Miller et al. [1] including transport media, temperature and time from specimen extraction from patient until the analysis is completed at the centralized laboratory. [1] Miller et al., A guide to utilization of the microbiology laboratory for diagnosis of infectious diseases 2018: Updated by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American Society of Microbiology. Current Infectious Diseases 2018, 67(6), e1-e94. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciy381.
Board Papers for the West Coast DHB Board meeting Friday, 11 February 2022 meeting
Any information you have regards number of people admitted to hospital due to Covid-19 as the primary illness, that later had a diagnosis of Myocarditis, caused by the virus
1. What are the official Guidelines /procedures for urgent X-rays (24 hour)? 2. What are the Guidelines/procedures for patients repeatedly admitted to Emergency Department with severe epigastric pain/ and upper right and left quadrant pain? 3. Guidelines/procedure for investigating possible Colonic Motility Dysfunction /Defecatory Disorders/Anorectal Dysfunction?
Rise in aggression and violence against nurses (AVAN). • The number of incidents related to nurses, midwives and health care assistants being abused, harassed or physically assaulted/ attacked at their workplace since 1 Jan 2017 to date, broken down by location and calendar year. • Brief description of the incidents and what the incidents related to e.g. verbal abuse, physical assault, sexual assault, physical threat or otherwise. • How many ‘code orange’* events that occurred? Brief description of the events. • Where did the incidents happen? e.g. the emergency department, mental health/addictions, obstetrics? • How many incidents were notified to WorkSafe? • How many incidents required police interventions e.g. Police report, statements from DHB employees? • How many incidents required an ACC claim? • How many incidents resulted in working days lost? And if so, how many?
1. a list of all district health board emergency departments that have a policy to provide COVID -19 vaccinations to unvaccinated people (COVID-19 )who attend the emergency department 2. a list of all district health board emergency departments, paediatric debarments or wards that have a policy to provide childhood immunisations to all unvaccinated children who attend the department or ward. 3 what plan each district health board has to connect people or children not currently enrolled in primary care who attend the emergency department or other departments – in primary care ( registered with a PHO) – currently only 84% of Māori are enrolled in primary care (PHO).
Diabetic Foot Services
Gender affirming healthcare provided by DHB
1. How many recorded assaults on health staff have there been in 2021?
2. How many recorded incidents of verbal abuse or threats have there been on health staff in 2021?
3. How many days have been lost due to staff taking time off after being assaulted in the same time frame?
Information and communications on the design of COVID-19 related visual material
Tatau Pounamu Advisory Group meeting papers for 28 January 2022 meeting. Due to COVID-19 restrictions this is held via Zoom video conference meeting.
2.Costs to the DHBs for health care provided to the Covid-positive patients, including HDU and ICU, 4.Costs of the incentives / bribes, music, food, and other draw-cards at testing and vaccination centres implemented to entice people to get tested and vaccinated, (Costs that commenced 17/08/2021)
Treatment protocols: Post Operative Urinary retention, persistent postsurgical pain, treatment of patients after a suicide attempt or suicidal ideation and constipation
Partial trans from MoH: 1.How many surgeries /procedures/assessments have been cancelled in the past year. 2.Is it possible to break that number down by month? 3.How many surgeries/procedures/assessments were cancelled in 2019 and in 2017.
Covid – The total cost of every set-up including contractors, security, workforce, hireage, purchases, administration, equipment, computer connections, stationery and any other expense associated with these checkpoints at all hospitals and any other facilities.
Correspondence between DHB and the NZNO, ASMS or NZRDA in the past six months re staffing levels.
1. How many staff are expected to be required at Buller Health when the new health centre opens (itemised please, ie nurses, doctors, allied health)? 2. How many staff are currently employed by Buller Health (also itemised please)? 3. What are the expected Buller Health employment costs once the new health centre opens? 4. What are Buller Health’s current employment costs? 5. If staff redundancies are expected following the opening of the new centre, how much has the DHB budgeted for redundancy costs?
The percentage of patients that have been declined referrals from multiple internal and external requests for gastro-intestinal department (Multiple being more than 3 separate GP/Doctor referrals) 3/12/2021 time frame 1/1/2010-1/11/2021
Ernst Young contracts 2014-2021
1. How much has been spent to date on the new Buller Health Centre project, itemised please (ie pre-planning, consultancy fees, design, tendering, construction). 2. What is the current budget for the new health centre? 3. If the current budget differs from the original budget of $20m, what is the reason for the differences? 4. If the project is running over budget, where are savings being made, how, and how much is expected to be saved? 5. What is the latest expected completion date? It was originally March 2023 and more recently has been cited as the second quarter of 2023? Does this mean April, May or June 2023 – or possibly later? 6. Does the West Coast District Health Board have a budget and a timeframe for demolishing the existing buildings on the Buller Health site – if so, how much is the budget and what is the timeframe? 7. If there is no budget or timeframe for demolition, why not? 8. What will happen to the existing buildings if they are not demolished (ie could they be sold, leased etc)?
Covid-19 vaccination programmes and planning for Māori: Copies of any plans formulated to vaccinate Māori in the region against Covid-19. – Details of measures the DHB has taken to provide vaccinations to Māori in the region, including staffing and resourcing. – Reports, briefings, memos, or other updates provided to the DHB’s senior leadership on the progress of Covid-19 vaccine rollout to Māori in the region since the immunisation programme began. – Details of any data the DHB is collecting to monitor the vaccination of Māori against Covid-19 in the region. – High-level correspondence between senior leadership and the Ministry of Health relating to the vaccination of Māori against Covid-19. – High-level correspondence between senior leadership and other DHBs relating to the vaccination of Māori against Covid-19. – High-level correspondence between senior leadership and Māori health providers, experts and/or iwi relating to the vaccination of Māori against Covid-19.
1. How many locum doctors did Buller Health employ in the year to June 30, 2021, 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. What was the cost of locum doctors for salaries and other expenses? 4. What was the minimum and maximum length of stay among locum doctors working at Buller Health during the year? 5. What was the cost of permanent doctors’ for salaries and other expenses? 6. How many practice nurses did Buller Health employ in the year to June 30, 2021, and what does that equate to in FTEs? 7. What was the cost of practice nurses for the year to June 30, 2021? 8. What were the commuting costs, accommodation costs and other expenses for Buller Health’s clinical director, Dr Murray Wiggins, during the year? 9. On average, how many days a week does Dr Wiggins work remotely for Buller Health and how many days a week is he on site in Westport? 10. Where is Dr Wiggins based?
•How many people are on the waitlist for inpatient youth mental health services? / outpatient youth mental health services? / inpatient adult mental health services? / outpatient adult mental health services? / Last ten years: number who have died of suicide or believed to have died of suicide on waitlist for these services.
Board Papers for the West Coast DHB Board meeting Friday, 10 December 2021 meeting
• Please advise how many of your electrical switch rooms have fire suppression systems? • If there is a fire suppression system what type of system, e.g. water sprinklers, gas flood, or other system ? • If nothing, then NIL.
Mental Health Services / Wait times
Who is given information on the daily Covid cases in each DHB region in advance of any Ministry of Health or government statement, or briefing? Which stakeholders and/or partner organisations are given information? The nature of the information; what information about the Covid cases are people given?
RE Alcohol and Drug residential services: Live in treatment services: number, name, location, number closed between 2015 and 2021. wait list for these facilities, average wait time, Alcohol and detox beds – located and how many? Avge wait time for drug and alcohol detox bed. Average number of people on wait list for drug and alcohol detox bed between 2015 and 2021
Myocarditis and pericarditis information. Myocarditis cases overall, and month by month. Pericarditis cases overall and month by month. (Broken down by age and gender). Vaccine doses month by month Feb-Nov 2021. broken down by 1st dose, 2nd dose, age and gender.
WCDHB Board Mtg 5/11/2021: Copies of items on Smoke Free and Alcohol Policies taken out of the Public Excluded agenda by the Chair
Copies of any reports, documents, memoranda, correspondence, legal advice, aide memoires, or emails, both internal and external discussing using a refrigerated container or refrigerated containers to respond to Covid deaths.
How many West Coasters have had surgery delayed as a result of both Covid lockdowns. (Includes in ChCh). Has this been caught up yet?
Maternity Services data since 2010: Caesarean sections / episiotomies/ epidurals / births / midwife positions/spending/obstetrician positions/code reds/code blacks/beds/ deaths/maternal and babies.
1.Do you diagnose ADHD for those under the age of 18, and for those over 18? If so, what is the process to getting a diagnosis, and who does the diagnosis? If not, please explain why not. 2.What is the waiting list/average time frame to be diagnosed over the last 12 months? (for under and over 18) 3.What support do you provide once they are diagnosed? 4.Do you have the ability to cope with an ADHD person in crisis? What care is provided?
Advisory Committee Papers for 25 November 2021 Meeting
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