Canterbury District Health Board

Correspondence between David Meates and Canterbury DHB

Date: 23 Oct 2020
Document Type: Official Information Act Response
ID: CDHB 10444

Any correspondence between David Meates and Canterbury DHB between Sept 14th and October 6th 2020

Tags David Meates

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Medical Oncology staffing and leave management

Date: 23 Oct 2020
Document Type: Official Information Act Response
ID: CDHB 10433

Questions around Medical Oncology staffing numbers, leave taken by staff, and type of leave taken by staff.

Tags Cancer Leave Oncology Outsourcing Patients radiation oncology Radiation therapy Short-staffing

Drinking water at Princess Margaret Hospital

Date: 23 Oct 2020
Document Type: Official Information Act Response
ID: CDHB 10425

Monitoring and test results of the drinking water at The Princess Margaret Hospital.

Tags Drinking water The Princess Margaret Hospital

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Burwood pain management service

Date: 22 Oct 2020
Document Type: Official Information Act Response
ID: CDHB 10428

Follow up to our previous response 10233 January 2020. This request is related to the proposed budget review for the Burwood pain management service for 2021/22 and out years. The Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) Faculty of Pain Medicine (FPM) is seeking any documentation (emails, reports and executive and board briefings and planning papers) that consider:

The Board and management decision-making and prioritisation in their consideration of budget changes as they relate to the pain management service at Burwood hospital.
Details of the proposed budget review including any timelines, cost benefit analysis, staffing plans and communications plans.
The impact it will have on the pain management service at Burwood Hospital.
How CDHB will maintain the current service levels with such significant financial changes.
Whether pain management services are considered mandatory by the CDHB.
What steps is the DHB taking to improve chronic pain services.
Your response will also update figures provided to FPM in your response dated 19 December 2019.
To update this information please provide data on:
- Budgeted and actual expenditure in 2019/20.
- Number of pain specialists/consultants employed by the DHB.
- Number of patients (both non-ACC and ACC patients) who received services in 2019/2020.
- Average waiting times for an appointment following referral from a GP, or other health practitioner in 2019/2020.
- Makeup and dedicated FTE of the multidisciplinary team workforce as at 1 September 2020.

Tags Burwood Hospital Chronic pain Pain

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Correspondence about Hospital facilities

Date: 22 Oct 2020
Document Type: Official Information Act Response
ID: CDHB 10421

All correspondence (including reports, letters, emails, texts) between the CDHB board chair Sir John Hansen, and the clinical leaders group, and Ministry of Health staff (including Crown Monitor Lester Levy) regarding hospital facilities from August 18 to September 18 2020.

All correspondence between the clinical leaders group and CDHB executive leadership team staff members regarding hospital facilities from August 18 to September 18 2020

Tags CLG Clinical Leaders Group Crown Monitor Facilities Financial Lester Levy Minister of Health Performance Review Sir John Hansen

Endoscopy consents and procedures

Date: 22 Oct 2020
Document Type: Official Information Act Response
ID: CDHB 10419

Endoscopy consents and procedures.

Tags Endoscopy

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NICU capacity

Date: 22 Oct 2020
Document Type: Official Information Act Response
ID: CDHB 10417

RE capacity issues in NICU - any correspondence or reports from NICU clinical staff to the CDHB or senior management concerning capacity issues at NICU from 2020.

Tags Capacity Neonatal Unit NICU

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Depreciation costs and board meeting minutes from 20 August 2020

Date: 22 Oct 2020
Document Type: Official Information Act Response
ID: CDHB 10400

What is the amount paid by the CDHB in depreciation costs for its building in the financial year 2019-20 and how does this compare to the average depreciation costs of the other 19 DHBs?
What is the estimated figure for 2020-21?
How much of this relates to building paid for by insurance money?
A copy of the minutes of the CDHB Board Meeting for 6.8.20 and when available for 20.8.20

Tags Board Meeting Depreciation costs Financial Performance

Fit Testing

Date: 14 Oct 2020
Document Type: Official Information Act Response
ID: CDHB 10437

Fit Testing Problems: What was the % of workers across the whole of the DHB who had received fit testing in the previous 12 months? What are the actual numbers for each DHB? (are some DHBs performing better than others?

Tags Fit testing Masks Personal Protective Equipment PPE Public health

Information provided to EY for reports

Date: 14 Oct 2020
Document Type: Official Information Act Response
ID: CDHB 10424

Documentation of what was requested by EY from the Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) for their most recent report on the CDHB, what was supplied to EY by the CDHB and documentation of any form of reconciliation between these 2 documents.

Tags Ernst & Young EY Financial Performance

Psychotherapists employed by Canterbury DHB 2018-2019

Date: 14 Oct 2020
Document Type: Official Information Act Response
ID: CDHB 10434

Psychotherapists employed by the DHB and CPD budget and spend 2018 and 2019.

Tags Mental Health Psychotherapist Psychotherapy

Colonoscopies in the last year 2019-2020

Date: 14 Oct 2020
Document Type: Official Information Act Response
ID: CDHB 10431

Colonoscopies: How many done last year?
Of those, how many were outsourced to private providers and how many staff would this workload have required?
What was the cost of the outsourced procedures?
How many CDHB staff are qualified to do colonoscopies?
Any report on staffing requirements for endoscopy services post screening programme roll out.

Tags Colonoscopies Colonoscopy Outsourcing Surgery Wait list

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Services provided to LGBTQIA+ community and transgender and gender diverse populations

Date: 14 Oct 2020
Document Type: Official Information Act Response
ID: CDHB 10427

Healthcare services and funding provided for LGBTQIA population. Gender.

Tags Gay Gender reassignment Gender-affirming healthcare services Intersex Lesbian LGBTQIA Transgender

Occupancy of The Princess Margaret Hospital

Date: 14 Oct 2020
Document Type: Official Information Act Response
ID: CDHB 10426

Number of people, staff and patients who currently occupy The Princess Margaret Hospital

Tags Facilities Mental Health Older persons health Staffing The Princess Margaret Hospital

Tags Acute services building Board Meeting Board meeting minutes 16 July 2020 Facilities Ministry of Health

Canterbury DHB Board Meeting Minutes from meeting held on 16 July 2020

Date: 14 Oct 2020
Document Type: Official Information Act Response
ID: CDHB 10422

A copy of the original contract signed by the MoH in 2012 between the CDHB and the Ministry of Health for the Building of the Acute Services Building.
And I would also like to request a copy of the minutes of the Board Meeting of 16.7.20

Staffing and sick leave during COVID-19 pandemic

Date: 14 Oct 2020
Document Type: Official Information Act Response
ID: CDHB 10416

How has Covid-19 affected staffing? In terms of staying home as if the slightest bit sick.
What was your rate of sick leave from March - September 2019 compared to the same period 2020?
How has the DHB managed this?
What was the DHB's average occupancy rate for March - September 2019 compared to the same period 2020? Can this please be broken down by month rather than lumped together.
Has this resulted in the DHB having to activate an action plan or escalation plan for wards? i.e. adults being put on children wards where there is more staffing etc.

Tags COVID-19 Leave care Short-staffing Sick leave Staffing

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Canterbury DHB Board – Meeting Agenda – 15 October 2020

Date: 14 Oct 2020
Document Type: Board Agenda, Meeting Minutes and Agenda

The Canterbury DHB Board meet approximately every month. Board agenda papers are usually published two days before a board meeting.

Tags Board Board Meeting CDHB Board

Letter from Ministry of Health to CDHB re Equity Support for 2020-21

Date: 2 Oct 2020

In conjunction with this letter from the Ministry of Health, Canterbury DHB have issued a statement about the equity support for 2020-21.

Tags Financial Funding

Concussion, head injury protocol

Date: 30 Sep 2020
Document Type: Official Information Act Response
ID: CDHB 10399

Protocols for: concussion clinic, assessment of patient with head injury Ashburton Hospital, referral for transfer from Ashburton Hospital to Christchurch Hospital with head injury/concussion, referral for MRI from Ashburton Hospital for patient with head injury/concussion.

Tags Ashburton Hospital Concussion Head injury MRI Protocols

HDU and CCU beds and negative isolation pressure rooms

Date: 30 Sep 2020
Document Type: Official Information Act Response
ID: CDHB 10415

Updated information as of Aug/Sept 2020 how many HDU/CCU beds and negative isolation pressure rooms at DHB.

Tags CCU HDU Hospital beds Negative isolation pressure rooms Number of beds

First specialist assessments, emergency department presentations, and hospital capacity 2019-2020

Date: 30 Sep 2020
Document Type: Official Information Act Response
ID: CDHB 10410

For the period September 1 2019 to August 31 2020, a weekly breakdown of the following information:

ED presentations
Overall hospital capacity
The overall number of referrals received for first specialist assessments for planned care, and the number of FSA that took place (clarified as Medical / surgical FSAs).

Tags Capacity Emergency Department FSA's

Community pharmacy funding

Date: 30 Sep 2020
Document Type: Official Information Act Response
ID: CDHB 10412

How much of the total $18m was allocated to Canterbury Pharmacies? How much has been spent to date 9/9/2020).

Tags Community Pharmacy Funding

Colonoscopy waiting lists 2018-2020

Date: 30 Sep 2020
Document Type: Official Information Act Response
ID: CDHB 10409

Information regarding colonoscopy waiting lists and referrals 2018-2020

Tags Colonoscopies Colonoscopy Surgery Wait list

Ernst Young Report 2019

Date: 30 Sep 2020
Document Type: Official Information Act Response
ID: CDHB 10407

Provide final future focused operational plan produced by EY into the CDHB co-commissioned by Canterbury DHB and MoH as mentioned in the July 2019 Board agenda.
Provide the executive management teams response to above.

Tags Ernst & Young EY Financial Performance Review

Tags Board Meeting Board meeting minutes 16 July 2020 Board meeting minutes 19 March 2020

Board Minutes from 19 March 2020 and 16 July 2020

Date: 30 Sep 2020
Document Type: Official Information Act Response
ID: CDHB 10404

Board minutes, including the public-excluded sessions, from March 19 and July 16 2020.

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Ophthalmology referrals and services

Date: 30 Sep 2020
Document Type: Official Information Act Response
ID: CDHB 10403

Ophthalmology referrals, wait times, procedures, and services.

Tags Eye Clinic Ophthalmologist Ophthalmology Wait list Wait times

Correspondence regarding EY Report

Date: 30 Sep 2020
Document Type: Official Information Act Response
ID: CDHB 10398

All requests for reports by the board chair or any board member to EY since July 16, 2020
All reports provided to the board by EY since July 16, 2020.
All correspondence, including texts, emails, and conversations between Minister of Health Chris Hipkins and board chair Sir John Hansen from August 21-26.

Tags Chris Hipkins Ernst & Young EY Financial Minister of Health Performance Review Sir John Hansen

Cost of EY Report

Date: 30 Sep 2020
Document Type: Official Information Act Response
ID: CDHB 10396

Sir John Hansen has commissioned an external review/report. I’m concerned about this costly process coming at a time when he and the board are talking about cutting costs.
How much has the Ernst Young report that Sir John Hansen commissioned cost to date? What clinical experience or relevant health sector experience Sir John Hansen has?

Tags Ernst & Young EY Financial Performance Review Sir John Hansen