Addiction

Alcohol related harm

Date: 24 May 2022
Document Type: Official Information Act Response
ID: CDHB 10861

Alcohol Related Harm / Admissions/treated/ED

Tags Admissions Alcohol Emergency Department Mental Health

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Orthopaedic surgery and related questions

Date: 11 Jan 2022
Document Type: Official Information Act Response
ID: CDHB 10762

17 questions: Orthopaedic surgery wait list, pain management, number of surgeons, support services for patients with spinal injury, prescription drug addiction, pain clinic. Suicides while waiting for surgery.

Tags Orthopaedic Orthopaedics Pain Management Prescription drug addiction Spinal injury Staffing Suicide Wait list Wait times

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Drug and Alcohol Residential Services

Date: 21 Dec 2021
Document Type: Official Information Act Response
ID: CDHB 10750

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? Average 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.

Tags Alcohol Detox Drugs Mental Health

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Mental Health Staffing

Date: 19 Aug 2021
Document Type: Official Information Act Response
ID: CDHB 10657

What are the facilities hosting mental health ED like and are there any plans to improve them?
What is the total number of staff working in the mental health crisis team when it is fully resourced.
The number of staff working in the team currently?
How many people left the mental health crisis team this year? And over the last six years broken down by year?
How many staff from the mental health crisis team were assaulted this year, how many resulted in an ACC claim, and how long was each incident off work as a result? Same info for last year and year before if possible too.
What is the role of police in assisting the crisis mental health team if they are unable to manage a patient?

Tags Assaults Crisis team Emergency Department Hillmorton Hospital Mental Health Patients Police Staff Staffing

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Crisis Resolution Services in Canterbury

Date: 29 Apr 2021
Document Type: Official Information Act Response
ID: CDHB 10570

How many people are seen by Crisis Resolution Services each year in Canterbury?
Approximately how many calls does Crisis Resolution receive per year?
Approx. increases since 2018?

Tags Crisis resolution Crisis team Mental Health

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MDMA related admissions

Date: 30 Mar 2021
Document Type: Official Information Act Response
ID: CDHB 10526

Please provide a monthly breakdown of the number of people treated at DHB from 2016 to 2021 to date (including through the COVID-19 period) for MDMA related admissions. Broken down by age groups of those treated and ethnicity.
Please provide a monthly breakdown of the number of people admitted from 2016 to 2021 to date (including through the COVID-19 period) for MDMA related harm. Broken down by age groups of those admitted and ethnicity.
Please provide a monthly breakdown of patients admitted from 2016 to 2021 to date (Including through the COVID-19 period) for consuming substances disguised as MDMA e.g. Synthetic Cathinones.
Please provide a monthly breakdown of the number of people who have died from MDMA related harm at Canterbury District Health Board from 2016 to 2021 to date (including through the COVID-19 period).
Please provide a monthly breakdown of the cost for each person who was treated at Canterbury District Health Board from 2016 to 2021 to date (including through the COVID-19 period) for MDMA use.

Tags Christchurch Hospital Drugs Emergency Department MDMA Overdose

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Mental Health Services

Date: 2 Mar 2021
Document Type: Official Information Act Response
ID: CDHB 10535

For the last six years:

What mental health services does your DHB provide?
- Please provide details of inpatient facilities and number of beds per facility, and whether facilities are currently used at capacity.
- Please provide details of outpatient services and services contracted to community providers.
What addiction services does your DHB provide?
- Please provide details of inpatient facilities and number of beds per facility and whether facilities are currently used at capacity.
- Please provide details of outpatient services and services contracted to community providers.
How many people do you treat on average every year in your mental health services?
- Please provide a breakdown by inpatient and outpatient services.
How many people do you treat on average every year in your addiction services?
- Please provide a breakdown by inpatient and outpatient services.
How many people are currently waiting for mental health treatment after they have been through an initial triage process?
- What is the average wait time to access services?
- What is the longest time someone can wait?
- Please provide breakdown by inpatient/outpatient services.
How many people are currently waiting for addiction treatment after they have been through an initial triage process?
- What is the average wait time to access services?
- What is the longest time someone can wait?
- Please provide breakdown by inpatient/outpatient services.
What is the process while patients wait to access addiction and/or mental health treatment?
How many patients died after they were triaged but before receiving addiction or mental health treatment in the last six years?
- Are you able to provide the cause of death for each person who died?