Canterbury DHB Document Library
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847 documents for "Official Information Act Response".
Commissioned research
- Date: 24 May 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10864
Details related to the expenditure of commissioned research the Canterbury DHB has awarded to external organisations over the last three years.
Donations and bequests
- Date: 24 May 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10838
Donations and bequests to DHB past five years.
Winter illness preparedness
- Date: 24 May 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10851
Winter illness preparedness reports, briefing documents or modelling for influenza, RSV, measles or whooping cough illness in relation to the upcoming 2022 winter season.
Staff investigations of assaults on patients
- Date: 24 May 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10854
Staff investigations of assaults on patients i.e. staff fired, investigated and resigning before being fired / criminal charges being laid / withdrawn by victim? Time frame "All DHB records".
Operating theatre revenue and capacity
- Date: 24 May 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10855
The impact on revenue for a hospital/DHB that is caused by an operating theatre being closed for a period of time. Can you please provide the average revenue that an operating theatre brings in per year? If that is too difficult, can you please provide the total operating theatre revenue for CDHB and the total amount of operating rooms?
Alcohol related harm
- Date: 24 May 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10861
Alcohol Related Harm / Admissions/treated/ED
Remdesivir and ventilators
- Date: 23 May 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10862
Has Remdesivir and ventilators been or are being used as a treatment for COVID patients in hospital?”
Senior Medical Officer Gastroenterologists appointed during 2020-2021
- Date: 23 May 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10860
SMO Gastroenterologist appointments 1/4/2020 - 1/4/2022
Maternity – Time from birth to discharge
- Date: 23 May 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10859
Time from birth to discharge for most recent month.
Maternal Mental Health
- Date: 23 May 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10856
Number of women referred to Maternal Mental Health in 2021 and number accepted. Current wait times for maternal mental health.
Assaults on staff 2018 to 2022
- Date: 20 May 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10852
The number of assaults on staff for years 2018,2019,2020,2021,2022 (to current date)
Stuttering
- Date: 20 May 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10853
Do DHBs provide services for people who stutter?
Healthcare Waste
- Date: 20 May 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10825(a)
Healthcare Waste / Volumes of hazardous and controlled waste and number of surgeries completed broken down by site (ChCh Hosp and Burwood) for last ten years.
People with Diabetes Type 1
- Date: 20 May 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10848
People with Diabetes Type 1 broken down by age, ethnicity etc
Car parking proposals during 2014
- Date: 20 May 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10845
Car parking proposals from the time Tony Ryall was Min of Health 2014. Correspondence CEO and EMT.
Mental health services procedural information
- Date: 19 May 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10828
- Copies of all forms relating to the induction of a client, compulsory or voluntary or moving between status.
- Copies of all forms relating to a discharge/transfer of a client, compulsory or voluntary or moving between status.
Carbon Neutral Plan
- Date: 3 May 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10813
- Do you have a carbon neutral plan by 2025, and if so, what is the official wording of it?
- Do you have a carbon neutral team or committee? If so, how many are in this team, and are they trained/experts?
- How much carbon do you emit/how are your carbon emissions measured?
- If coal is still in use at your facilities, when do you plan to phase it out?
- Have you transitioned to EVs and or/hybrids? Have you begun to downsize your fleet size?
St George’s Hospital maternity services
- Date: 29 Apr 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10846
Correspondence re St George's maternity / birthing / post-natal services August 2021 to 29/03/2022 and a copy of the contract.
COVID-19 hospitalisations
- Date: 28 Apr 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10806
I've heard there are a few patients that have been hospitalised for more than month.
- How many patients have there been?
- How long have they each stayed in hospital?
- How many have had to go into ICU and how long have they each stayed there (as part of their total time in hospital)?
- And were they on a ventilator when in ICU? How many of these patients were vaccinated when they presented at hospital?
If there are any other details that can be provided too (eg. age, ethnicity, sex) that would be appreciated.
Emergency Department COVID-19 vaccinations
- Date: 28 Apr 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10782
- 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
- 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.
- 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).
Mental health staff and COVID-19 vaccination mandates
- Date: 28 Apr 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10792
- How many roles / staff have been terminated / fired / released from contracts by way of refusing mandates for covid-19 vaccinations in the Christchurch Mental Health Sector?
- Please break down the numbers by worksite / medical establishments where possible, including any mental health roles in prisons?
- How many staff are performing double shifts on a weekly basis? (Please break down the numbers by worksite / medical establishments where possible)
- How much time do the patients in the mental health sector receive, on average, quality one-on-one care /support / help? (Please break down the numbers by worksite / medical establishments where possible)
- How many staff were specialist mental health services short by in November 2021, and how many in December 2021?
- How many staff had left these roles wholly or partly to do with the covid-19 vaccine mandates?
- What were the reasons given for the 13 departures?
- How many were due to covid-19 vaccine mandates?
- How many more staff have left the facility since July until date of your answer given to this OIA request?
- How many of these have been partly or wholly due to covid-19 vaccine mandates?
Cancer misdiagnosis and delayed diagnosis
- Date: 28 Apr 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10800
- 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?
Miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies
- Date: 28 Apr 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10801
From each year ending: 2019/2020/2021.
- The number of miscarriages recorded per year.
- The number of ectopic pregnancies per year.
- The number of molar pregnancies per year.
- The number of live births per year.
- Number of perinatal deaths and neonatal deaths per year.
- Furthermore, can you please answer the following question: In relation to pharmacovigilance, is the DHB recording/reporting any data relating to outcomes following vaccination for Covid-19 in pregnancy, as part of a post marketing surveillance programme?
Emergency Department presentations 2020-21
- Date: 28 Apr 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10803
Please provide a breakdown of all emergency admission (presentations) numbers in 2020 and 2021, broken down by month. Please include a categorisation of the types of admission (presentation) also.
PGY1 job positions
- Date: 28 Apr 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10811
- Total number of PGY1 positions filled through ACE matching process from 2014-2020? Could you please provide me those numbers broken down by year.
- Total number of PGY1 positions filled by NZREX doctors from 2014-2020? Numbers broken down by year?
- Total number of PGY1 positions filled by IMGs from Comparable Health countries from 2014-2020?
- Do you have any preference criteria for PGY1 job hiring candidates?
- How does the DHB priorities NZREX candidates?
- Is there any support program available for NZREX doctors to get the PGY1 jobs?
Hospitals at Code Red and Code Black during 2021
- Date: 28 Apr 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10808
Number of days hospitals spent in 'Code Red' and 'Code Black' 2021 calendar year (Jan-Dec).
Transporting specimens
- Date: 28 Apr 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10814
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.
Disposal of waste from operating theatres
- Date: 28 Apr 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10825
- Cost to dispose waste generated within operating theatres for past five years.
- Also how the waste has been disposed of.
- Volumes of waste.
- Number of surgeries completed for past ten years broken down by type.
Mental health staffing
- Date: 28 Apr 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10816
- Out of the total 627 budgeted nursing roles in Canterbury DHB's specialist mental services, how many staff members short of this total was the DHB in:
- November 2021,
- December 2021,
- January 2022,
- February 2022,
- In Christchurch's forensic mental health unit, how many of the unit's total staff members have left the unit in the twelve months to January 2022?
- In the 12 months to January 2022, how many staff members were physically assaulted by patients in the forensics unit?
- Of these assaults, how many days did each staff member have to take off work?
- How many of these assaults resulted in an ACC claim?
- What is the total number of staff in Christchurch's crisis resolution team?
- How many staff members in the crisis resolution team have left each year in the five years to 2021 (2016 - 2021)?
Palliative care
- Date: 28 Apr 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10812
Palliative care services provided by DHB / Costs / staffing.
Skin cancer referrals waiting list
- Date: 27 Apr 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10805
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).
Bone density (DEXA) scans
- Date: 27 Apr 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10796
Are publicly funded bone density (DEXA) scans available for (1) all relevant Endocrinology patients (2) any patient seen in a relevant subspecialty (yes/no adequate detail for both questions). The scan could be provided in private but the question is about who pays - the DHB or the patient. If some patients would be funded (e.g. community service card holders) please provide this information.
COVID-19 staff vaccinations
- Date: 27 Apr 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10791
A detailed breakdown of CDHB employees and contractors that have NOT received the mandated two doses of a Covid vaccine and have Not been stood down i.e. Unvaccinated and still employed. I would like this data broken down by role, and for clinical staff, further broken down by specialization, along with the reason or rationale for each exemption from the mandate.
Vaccination details for population of Kaikoura
- Date: 27 Apr 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10823
Vaccination details for population of Kaikoura / incl children. Adverse and serious adverse events recorded post vaccination / deaths linked within Kaikoura District from vaccination / people admitted to hospital following vaccination within 30 to 90 days.
Urgent x-ray procedures and ED procedures
- Date: 27 Apr 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10787
- What are the official Guidelines/procedures for urgent X-rays (24 hour)?
- What are the Guidelines/procedures for patients repeatedly admitted to Emergency Department with severe epigastric pain/ and upper right and left quadrant pain?
- Guidelines/procedure for investigating possible Colonic Motility Dysfunction/Defecatory Disorders/Anorectal Dysfunction?
Use of Language interpreters to access healthcare
- Date: 27 Apr 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10849
- Any information on the numbers of people in New Zealand who need an interpreter in order to access effective health care.
NZ Sign Language interpreters
- Date: 27 Apr 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10847
- Number of times NZ Sign Language interpreters were booked in each DHB Feb 21 - Feb 22.
COVID-19 hospitalisations
- Date: 27 Apr 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10843
- Covid hospitalisation directly related to covid and covid only.
- Covid hospitalisation where patient was admitted for another reason and covid was detected after arriving at the hospital.
- ICU and HDU beds used for covid only infections.
- ICU and HDU beds used for non-covid conditions where a covid test after arriving at the hospital showed infection.
Feeding tubes
- Date: 27 Apr 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10822
- How many people under the CDHB have a feeding tube? Would appreciate this by age bracket please, eg 5 year brackets.
- Does the CCDHB provide, free of charge, the Nutricia Flocare Infinity Go Frame for those feeding tube patients requiring one and if so, what is the GST excl unit price that the CCDHB purchase them for from Nutricia? https://nutricia.co.nz/adult/product/flocare-infinity-go-frame/
Code of conduct and patient rights
- Date: 22 Apr 2022
- Document Type: Official Information Act Response
- ID: CDHB 10837
Canterbury DHB staff codes of conduct for clinicians, doctors and other health assessors. Rights of patients.
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