All of the Valentia system security reviews and booking system reviews supplied by DHBs to the Ministry.”

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A&E presentations: 30/7/2021 - 3/8/2021. Please could I have a sex and age break down of causes for all admissions, and numbers thereof, under diagnostic headings, e.g.:

1) blood clots 2) heart issues 3) breathing difficulties, 4) RSV 5) anaphylactic shock 6) Accidents ... etc?

Please can the breakdown include numbers of people whose admissions were subsequent to vaccination and the time frames: a) In the prior 2 weeks, b) the prior week, c) the prior 48 hours, d) The prior 24 hours?

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RE Covid vaccinations Group 3: I would like statistics on whether Group 3 has been effectively prioritised in Christchurch, and specifically East Christchurch. I would also like statistics on those whose bookings were cancelled because of lockdown last week

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PPE stock and readiness for another COVID outbreak.

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• The number of Pharmacy employees at your DHB that are currently seconded to the COVID Vaccination Programme and what their profession is (e.g. Pharmacist, Pharmacy Technician, Pharmacy Assistant etc.).
• What they were paid prior to their secondment and what they are currently paid under the COVID Vaccination Programme.

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How much PPE CDHB hospitals received and disposed of during the pandemic.

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The number of scheduled COVID-19 vaccination appointments that were missed data to date since 1 July 2021 (i.e. since we moved to NIBS National booking system) as per our response to previous requests CDHB 10628

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1. Can you provide all correspondence with and reporting to the Ministry of Health in relation to the determination of targets for the vaccination roll-out.

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1. A summary of how many people are in each of the four Covid-19 vaccine rollout groups in areas administered by the CDHB. Additionally, I would like the same summary provided just for the area of greater Christchurch city.
2. I would also like a weekly breakdown of the number of vaccinations that the CDHB is targeting for each of these groups. This could be provided as a weekly summary of the number of people the CDHB is expecting to be vaccinated in each group, from the beginning of the vaccination programme until the end.

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1. All correspondence between the Canterbury Primary Response Group and CDHB staff in the past two months (May, June, July to-date), regarding concerns about the speed rolling out the Covid-19 vaccination programme.
2. The structure of the team within the CDHB responsible for rolling out the vaccine: number of employees involved, name of team, responsibilities.
3. I've been told someone organising the rollout was fired/moved aside due to the slow rollout speed. Please provide details of any action taken by the CDHB to discipline staff involved in the rollout, or actions taken to improve the speed of the rollout. 4.Please provide correspondence between the CDHB and MoH staff in the past two months (May, June, July to-date) regarding concerns about the speed of the Covid vaccination roll-out in Canterbury.

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• How many people staying in MIQ facilities have sought assistance from Ministry of Health mental health teams that operate on-site during the same period (16/03/2020 - 16/04/2021)?
• How many prescriptions/doses of anti-anxiety medications such as Xanax (alprazolam), Klonopin (clonazepam), Valium (diazepam), and Ativan (lorazepam) have been distributed to patients in MIQ units? (16/03/2020 - 16/04/2021).
• How much has the Ministry of Health spent on medications and non-Covid related health.

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• How many Covid-19 infected persons in MIQ were admitted to Hospital?
• How many were put on a respirator.
• How many died in MIQ?

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1. The Job Description of the person in charge (or employed within the Canterbury District Health Board) of the current and local (Canterbury region) Covid 19 Vaccination process.
2. The Salary (also expenses) of the person in charge (or employed within the Canterbury District Health Board) of the current and local (Canterbury region) Covid 19 vaccination process

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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.

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I request the following information relating to Managed Quarantine:

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

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

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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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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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• 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.

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The number of workers, not employed by hotels, but working in MIQFs who are currently earning below the Living Wage.

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Background

The Information Team at Community and Public Health (the public health division of the Canterbury District Health Board), was approached by the Canterbury Regional Isolation and Quarantine (C-RIQ) leadership who were concerned by incidents of stigma and discrimination being reported to them by staff working within the Canterbury Managed Isolation and Quarantine facilities (MIQF). In order to inform next steps by the C-RIQ leadership in supporting their workforce, a rapid literature review and a survey of Canterbury MIQF staff was undertaken in late 2020.

You can also read the full MIQ facility workers survey and literature review

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Background

The Information Team at Community and Public Health (the public health division of the Canterbury District Health Board), was approached by the Canterbury Regional Isolation and Quarantine (C-RIQ) leadership who were concerned by incidents of stigma and discrimination being reported to them by staff working within the Canterbury Managed Isolation and Quarantine facilities (MIQF). In order to inform next steps by the C-RIQ leadership in supporting their workforce, a rapid literature review and a survey of Canterbury MIQF staff was undertaken in late 2020.

Literature Review

To date, little or no research has been applied to understanding any work-related wellbeing impacts for individual MIQF workers, their whānau, and their communities, as well as any implications for life outside-of-work. The most closely related literature is focused on healthcare and other front-line workers’ experiences within in-patient contexts, for other viral diseases such as HIV, EBOLA, MERS, SARS (although the COVID-19 literature is emerging).

In a high-stress situation, such as a pandemic response, distorted disease perception, misinformation, and fear can trigger reactions from individuals and groups that can disproportionately affect front-line workers (and their significant others) and lead to negative psychosocial outcomes. Stigma and discrimination directed towards front-line healthcare workers have been well documented across several previous viral epidemics including HIV, EBOLA, MERS, SARS, and currently COVID-19, where they have been shown to be strongly associated with low staff motivation, poor staff retention, low morale, reduced psychological wellbeing, and in some cases anxiety and depression.

The applicability of the literature review findings to COVID-19 MIQ facilities in New Zealand needs to be considered in light of the differences in illness severity and the nature of the settings studied in the literature. Despite these differences, previous epidemics and settings share many common elements, and many of the studies propose strategies that might be applied in the context of New Zealand’s MIQ facilities.

You can also read the MIQ facility workers survey summary

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Patients placed in isolation within DHB hospitals to prevent the spread of disease 2018-2020 calendar years broken down by year.

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Copies of all surveys held by the Ministry done by facilities and DHBs of people who have stayed at managed isolation and quarantine facilities.

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Requested re COVID-19 for calendar year 2020:

• Situation reports
• Status reports
• Intelligence insight reports
• Action, response and recovery plans
• Task matrices, plans, or similar
• Decision logs
• Resource requests
• Briefing / Cabinet papers
• Organisation charts
• Debrief / Lessons report

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Incident reports of mental health incidents in MIQ facilities, advice to ministers on mental health in MIQ and learnings from mental health incidents in MIQ.

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All correspondence in 2020 with officials from Managed Isolation and Quarantine; the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment; The Ministry of Health, or any other Government ministry regarding the planning and coordination for the stay of 235 foreign fishermen who were granted a border exemption and arrived at the Sudima Hotel MIQ facility on October 16, 2020. My request also covers any correspondence the CDHB had with Sealord, Independent Fisheries and Maruha Nichiro on the the planning and coordination for the MIQ stay of 235 foreign fishermen.

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• How many COVID-19 tests, taken in the CDHB region between 22 January 2020 and today's date 28 January 2021, have been spoiled or damaged?
• Resulting in those samples not being able to be tested./How were the tests spoiled or damaged?
• When and where the samples were taken and transported to?
• What repercussions were there for those involved in the testing process, including the patients affected?
• How many patients, whose tests were spoiled or damaged, subsequently tested positive for COVID-19?
• Any and all copies of video and photographs of spoiled or damaged COVID-19 tests.

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Two workers at Sudima who tested positive. Provide a description of the full PPE that the nurses were wearing. Copy of standard operating procedures provided and staff training manuals provided to the nurses for testing Covid infected people.

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Managed isolation and quarantine of international mariners including a report related to their stay in October 2020.

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Regarding the ‘new strain’ of the SARS CoV-2: Has any evidence of that viral strain been forensically checked for, on the 3 vessels involved and were any of the cargos transporting frozen foodstuffs, fluids, chemicals, or containing medical supplies?

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•  The number of staff at managed isolation or quarantine facilities (MIQs) investigated for alleged misconduct, broken down by date, managed isolation facility, the nature of misconduct, whether the misconduct was upheld, any disciplinary action taken, and the nature of the staff member (e.g. NZDF staff member, private security guard etc).
• An overview of instances where staff at MIQs were investigated for alleged personal impropriety with guests (returnees), broken down by date, managed isolation facility, the nature of misconduct, whether the misconduct was upheld, any disciplinary action taken.

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The serology testing specifically used for the Christchurch fishermen

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• To date, how many returnees have indicated, or it has been discovered by MIQ staff, they have health and wellbeing issues requiring assessment /treatment by a clinician?
• To date, how many returnees have indicated, or it has been discovered by MIQ staff, they have addiction issues requiring assessment/treatment by a clinician?

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• 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.

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Copies of any reports, documents, briefings or correspondence that include or summarise feedback from DHB staff sent to work at Rosewood rest home.

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COVID-19 border control impact on DHB clinical workforce recruitment.

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