For the booking system pilot at Kaikōura Vaccination Centre (and any other pilot sites in CDHB), I request copies of all documents that discuss the system's performance and any issues encountered.

Tags COVID-19COVID-19 VaccineKaikouraTechnologyVaccinations

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• How many PET CT scans have been referred per year the past 3 years? 
• How many PET CT scans have been referred this year so far?
• What percentage of the patients being referred are Maori? 
• What is the average cost per PET CT scan referral?

Tags PET-CT ScanningRadiologyScan

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I request the following information relating to Managed Quarantine:

• What treatment, if any, was given to these 'positive cases'?

Tags CoronavirusCOVID-19IsolationMIQsPublic health

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The number of scheduled COVID-19 vaccination appointments that were missed by people for each month to date in 2021.

Tags AppointmentsCOVID-19COVID-19 VaccineDid not attendDNAVaccinations

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Partial transfer from MBIE: Questions 2,3 and 4: RE People re-entering NZ and going into quarantine. From quarantine, some will be labelled 'psychiatrically disturbed' and they will go from quarantine in mental health facilities.

• How many went into Mental Health facility and been involuntarily detained?
• How many are still retained in government institutions?

Tags COVID-19IsolationMental HealthReturneesWellbeing

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Seclusion of children in Mental health facilities since 2018.

Tags CAFChild and Youth/Adolescent Mental Health ServiceMental HealthSeclusion

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RE Alma Consulting Ltd / contractors employed to find significant savings at CDHB.

• A list of actions recommended, and amount saved by each recommendation.
• A list of all actions that will be undertaken by the DHB to achieve savings in light of advice received.
• An estimated cost if any, associated with the actions required to achieve savings.

Tags AuditBudgetConsultantsFinancialPerformanceReviewSavings

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RE the original ALMA Consulting Contract: (Commenced 15 February 2021 for 3 months:)

• What was the outcome of their work?
• Did they find significant savings and if so, how much?
• How can the Board justify this cost ($33,000-$55,000).
• What other consultants have been hired since David Meates resigned and Peter started?
• At what cost?

Tags AuditBudgetConsultantsFinancialPerformanceReviewSavings

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Re response CDHB 10519 16/2/2021.  You advised that there were 1,658 terminations performed in 2020 at your boards facilities. I have recently been advised that the Ministry of Health informed the President of Voice for Life that the number of abortions performed at your facilities in 2020 totalled 1,613 there is a difference of 45 in the totals. I would be grateful if you could advise me promptly, which is the correct total?

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• Please provide the gift registers held by the DHB about gifts/contributions/received items given to DHB employees (including medical professionals) for the following years: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016.
• Please provide records held regarding of any flights provided, paid for or subsidised by pharmaceutical or medical equipment companies to employees of the DHB (including medical professionals) in the following years: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016.
• Please provide any information the DHB holds regarding professional affiliations, board roles or advisory positions held by employees of the DHB (including medical professionals) in connection to pharmaceutical or medical equipment companies.
• If possible, break these affiliations down by the following years: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016.

Tags BoardConflicts of interestEMTExpensesGiftsKohaTravel expenses

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• How many children aged 0-14 have presented to hospital with a dog-related injury in the last year?
• How many of those children required a procedure (e.g. sutures), or admission?
• What were the ethnic and age demographics of those children?

Tags Child healthChildrenDog related injuryDogsPaediatrics

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Can you please provide the number of people on the waiting list for psychiatric services, including eating disorder services, by DHB, as at 20 March 2021?

Tags Eating disorderEating Disorder ServiceMental HealthPsychiatric servicesSIEDSWait listWait times

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Yaldhurst quarries -follow up to request 10602: I would appreciate any report created by Dr. Pink at the time being provided, and fully understand and appreciate current circumstances make this most certainly a low priority.  If there is no report from him, and the only report in existence as a review / analysis of the monitoring being that by Mr. Fowles if I could be advised that is the case.

Tags Air pollutionDustQuarrying

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The details of any psychometric testing undertaken as part of staff recruitment, training, resourcing or outsourcing - including as undertaken by outside recruitment firms.

Tags RecruitmentStaffVacancies

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• Agendas/minutes past 3 years re cyber security (IT, ICT).
• Copies of any relevant risk registers that provide info re cyber (ITC, IT, info tech, data and digital) security and/or risks at any time in the last 3 years.  
• And DHB response to DG Dr Bloomfield's letter to DHBs dated 24 July 2020.
• Copies of risk registers.

Tags Cyber SecurityInformation SecurityITTechnology

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Labral Tear Hip Surgery: Last five years. Number of patients who have requested surgery, age, gender. Number declined (age and gender) reasons declined. Number referred for assessment (age and gender), Number referred elsewhere for surgery (age and gender). Correspondence CDHB and ACC on reasons patients will not be covered by ACC. Total cost for Labral tear hip surgery.

Tags ACCHipHip replacementLabral tear hip surgeryReferralsSurgery

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How many MIQ workers and frontline healthcare workers have had their employment terminated because they have not received the Covid vaccination?

Tags CoronavirusCOVID-19EmployeesIsolationMIQsPublic healthStaffing

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Covid-19 vaccinations: Maori and Pacific islanders in the Canterbury DHB area who are 70 or over are classified as being in Priority Group 2 for vaccination. I seriously doubt that specific ethnic groups in Canterbury currently are more vulnerable than others. Why are not individuals of other races 70 and over also in Group 2?

Tags CoronavirusCOVID-19Māori healthPandemicPublic healthVaccinations

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Since February 1, 2021, copies of any reports, documents, memoranda, and correspondence, both internal and external, regarding misinformation about Covid-19 vaccines/vaccination, including any reports of examples of misinformation, any official reaction to such examples or the problem of misinformation as a whole, and the possible impact of such misinformation.

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Health statistics and data on population of Lyttleton suburb

Tags CapacityLytteltonPopulation

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Multiple Sclerosis New Zealand is aware that your DHB has been presented with a Business Case to make autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplants (aHSCT) available in your DHB to patients with Multiple Sclerosis. Multiple Sclerosis New Zealand requests a copy of this Business Case along with further information including any analysis of the business case correspondence etc regarding your decisions on this application.

Tags aHSCTAutologous haematopoietic stem cell transplantsMultiple SclerosisStem cell transplants

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The total number of annual leave days taken by (all) Senior Medical Officers (SMOs) in your employ in each of the following months for each DHB (WCDHB and CDHB) separately: December 2020 and January 2021

Tags Annual LeaveLeaveSMOsStaffing

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A summary of the costs of hospital intensive care services provided to those not entitled to NZ free health care (ineligible patients). The cost summary should include reference to the number of days or hours in intensive care. Information to cover the last three years.

Tags Cost of healthcareDebtEligibilityICUIneligible patientsIntensive CareNon-residents

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Yaldhurst quarries - International peer review reports - personal monitoring of dust exposure and levels involving Yaldhurst residents in the vicinity of quarries.

Also see OIA request 10602(a)

Tags Air pollutionDustQuarrying

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Re the HPV vaccine in schools:

• How many schools are part of the HPV immunisation programme in NZ
• How many schools are not part of the HPV immunisation programme in NZ?
• Which ones?

Tags HPVHPV Gardasil VaccineHuman papillomavirusesSchoolsVaccinationsVaccine

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Suspected sexual or physical abuse in children aged 0-17 the CDHB has treated - 2017 - 2021 YTD.

Tags AbuseChild abuseSexual abuse

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HPV Gardasil Vaccine: Number of schools refusing school based immunisation programme for this vaccine.

Tags HPVHPV Gardasil VaccineHuman papillomavirusesSchoolsVaccinationsVaccine

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The number of times DHBs have challenged a coroner's findings after an inquest.

Tags CoronerDeathsInquests

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Transmasculine chest surgery - follow up to response to CDHB 10555.

• For transmasculine chest surgery (mastectomy) it was decided in 2019 to provide surgery for five transgender cases per annum.
• What was the previous number?
• Why are only five surgeries performed per annum?
• Are there any plans/policies in place to increase this number to meet the growing demand for gender affirming surgeries?
•  

Tags Gender-affirming healthcare servicesMastectomySurgeryTransgendertransmasculine chest reconstruction surgery

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All correspondence by any CDHB staff member about the surplus Covid-19 vaccine doses on the weekend of April 9-11 involved in managing and distributing the vaccine doses during that period including but not limited to:

• when it was discovered,
• how the over-supply happened,
• all discussion about responses to distribute (and not waste) the extra doses.
• AND all and any correspondence to and from Ralph La Salle, Hannah Gordon and Kim Sinclair-Morris about the surplus supply and its distribution from Friday April 9 to April 18.

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• Can you advise whether PSMA (Prostate Specific Membrane Antigen) PET-CT is funded by the DHB, or only available privately?
• If publicly funded, please can you advise whether there are criteria that must be met. For example: For staging of high risk and unfavourable intermediate risk prostate cancer before definitive local therapy. For restaging of PSA recurrence (≥0.2ng/ml).

Tags CancerPatientsPET-CT ScanningProstate cancerPSAPSMA

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Information about Specialist Mental Health Services provided during January to April 2021.

Tags PsychiatristsReferWait listWait times

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Do you provide financial support to Pegasus 24 Hour Surgery to reduce the cost of home visits? If so, why is a similar level of support not provided to Afterhours GP?

Tags After-HoursGeneral PracticesGPsHome visitsSurgery

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Re Mental Health Act 1992:

• What is the ethnicity of psychiatrists currently working in DHB psychiatric inpatient units and what is the ethnicity of allied clinical staff working in DHB psychiatric units?
• What DHB protocols are there for ensuring Maori Clinical staff care for Maori Tangata Whaiora?

Tags MaoriMental HealthPsychiatrists

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• Since the start of 2020 how many people have been made redundant at Canterbury DHB?
• How many fixed term contracts been terminated?
• How many people have been employed as permanent staff?
• How many fixed term contracts have been initiated?
• How are your supplies of smart infusions, infusion sets, medications, and IV fluids?
• Are any of your supplies at critical levels? If so, what, and when will they be restocked?
• Are you able to replenish your above mentioned supplies easily?

Tags Clinical suppliesResignationStaffingVacancies

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Re Cardiology Dept 15-29 March 2021:

• Number of echo staff,
• hours worked;
• numbers of cases completed per day and size of backlog;
• period of time backlog has existed;
• number of and period of staff absence for any reason including training, sickness, unfilled positions, acting up;
• work allocation and prioritisation; triage system rules;
• outpatient backlog size;
• age and quality of equipment.

Tags CapacityCardiologyEchoStaffing

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• Any memos, reports or briefing notes, including drafts, prepared since January 1, 2021 relating to the vaccine roll out in Canterbury.
• Any emails and information about the left over vaccines distributed by the CDHB to businesses and contingency plan.
• The names and number of businesses which were offered the free vaccines to avoid wastage.
• The locations of every vaccination clinic in Canterbury.
• The standby list of people within Managed Isolation and Quarantine or Port facilities.
• Examples of how Māori and Pacific healthcare has been prioritised since the announcement of the vaccine roll out.

Tags CoronavirusCOVID-19PandemicPublic healthVaccinations

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Hospital pathology service contracts past and present.

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CDHB Annual Plans: Would you please provide me with copies of those up to and including 2007/2008, either electronically or by hard copy mailed to my home address.

• The CDHB's Annual Plan for 2019/20 (the Annual Plan for 2020/21 is not yet publicly available) states on page 1 that the Annual Plan "has been prepared to meet the requirements of the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act, Crown Entities Act, Public Finance Act, and the expectations of the Minister of Health."
• Please provide specific details of the sections and/or subsections of the three Acts which require DHBs to prepare Annual Plans.
• Please provide specific details which give the Minister of Health the right to state what his or her expectations are of the CDHB - what is the legislative basis for such expectations?

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Copies of documents created since the start of 2019 that relate to the condition, performance and adequacy of specialist mental health facilities managed by the DHB: Copies of business cases for repairs or upgrades of existing SMHS facilities / building of new facilities. Bed occupancy rates, bed numbers, unplanned readmission rates, funding for SMHS addiction facilities etc.

Tags Bed occupancyBusiness caseFacilitiesHillmorton HospitalMental HealthNumber of beds

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