I have been told that in 2020 the CDHB spent around $375,000 on an audit to find out why the organisation had gone over budget for the year.

• Any information about an audit/investigation/review or any other process undertaken last year around the budget and why spending was over.
• This should include but not be restricted to any reports into this or similar documents or final feedback/decisions/findings.
• Details of the cost of this process including a final cost, breakdown of that total, who it was paid to?

Tags AuditBudgetErnst & YoungEYFinancialPerformanceReview

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Please can you advise on the total spent on temporary casual / bank and agency workers by the District in the periods Financial Year 18/19 and 19/20. Your response should be broken down by professional group and financial year.

• Nursing
• Allied Health Professionals
• Medical:  Medical Agency spend also includes spend on Locum Doctors.

Tags Agency workersCasual workersConsultantsLocumsSalaryStaffTemporary staffTemps

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Information regarding being a "Living Wage Employer":

1. Is your DHB currently a registered living wage employer?
2. If yes what factors influenced that decision?
3. Are your contractors/sub-contractors currently living wage employers?
4. Do you require them to be?
5. Does your DHB currently have plans to become a living wage employer?
6. If so can you describe how far you have progressed?
7. What do you see as the obstacles to becoming a living wage employer?

Tags Living wagePayPay rateSalaryStaff

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Information pertaining to the amount of funds paid by your Agency/ Organisation / Department / Ministry directly to victims of the March 15 2019 terror attacks on the two Christchurch Mosques.

Tags Christchurch mosque attacksChristchurch terror attackFundingMosque attacks

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Corporate Office - salaries, consultants employed in past year, amount spent on IT projects.

Tags ConsultantsSalaryStaff

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• With reference to OIA CDHB 10459 and CDHB 10397: When will the CDHB’s Annual Plan 2020/2021 be made available on the CDHB website?
• What is the current status of the Annual Plan 2020/2021?
• What is the current status of the CDHB’s Annual Report, including audited financial statements, for the year ended 30 June 2020 and when will this also be made available on the CDHB website?

Tags Annual PlanAnnual Report

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Funding if any provided to PIPS (Pregnancy Infancy Parenting Support). Criteria for allowing members of pregnancy support groups to provide counselling or advice to DHB patients.

Tags CounsellingMaternityPregnancy Infancy Parenting Support

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Correspondence between Norma Campbell and CoM, EMT & Sir John Hansen on primary birthing unit & endoscopy site since June 2019.

Tags EndoscopyMaternityPrimary birthing suiteRFPSir John Hansen

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Number and cost of ACC claims for Specialist Mental Health Services (SMHS) staff as result of physical assault, and staff leave taken.

Tags ACCAssaultsInjuryMental HealthSecurityStaff

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All the responses to the RFP for Endoscopy and / or primary birthing unit. All correspondence between any staff regarding the RFP this year.

Tags EndoscopyPrimary birthing suiteRFP

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Total patient care revenue actual vs budget as reported in the Statement of Comprehensive Revenue and Expense.

Please provide the breakdown of the budget totals for Patient Care Revenue as reported in the financial statements for the following years: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021.

Tags BudgetFinancialPatient Care RevenuePerformance

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A copy of the Ernst Young Report costing $240,000 and examining the drivers of the Canterbury DHB deficit.

Tags Deloitte reportsEYFinancialPerformanceReview

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Follow up to response to 10432. Request for EY and Deloitte reports.

Tags Deloitte reportsEYFinancialPerformanceReview

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• Sensitive expenditure: Gifts, Koha, Tips/gratuity, Hospitality/entertainment, Alcohol, Air travel / domestic and international, Accommodation / international and domestic, Taxis/corporate vehicles, Rental cars, Moving expenses, Parking/traffic offences, Christmas functions, Social clubs.
• All correspondence for 2018, 2019 and 2020, both internal and external, including emails, letters, text messages, reports, advice etc, relating to concerns around sensitive expenditure. This should include all correspondence involving your relevant government department or agency and the Office of the Auditor General.

Tags CEO expensesChristmas partyExpensesGiftsKohaTravel expenses

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1. Non-resident/foreign debt last five years?
2. How much paid and how much left owing?
3. How much written off in each of those years?
4. Largest bill and what was it for?
5. What was largest unpaid bill in that period and what was it for?
6. Can you break down costs by type of treatment?

Tags Cost of healthcareDebtEligibilityForeign patientsIneligible patientsNon-residents

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• Average annual remuneration paid to the 20 highest-paid clinicians, broken down by gender (into number of men and women in this set of 20, and the average salary paid to each gender).
• Average annual remuneration paid to the clinical heads of department, broken down by gender (into number of men and women in this set, and the average salary paid to each gender).
• The average annual remuneration paid to full-time surgeons , broken down by gender (into number of men and women in this set, and the average salary paid to each gender).
• The average annual remuneration paid to part-time surgeons, broken down by gender (into number of men and women in this set, and the average salary paid to each gender).
• The average annual remuneration paid to full-time Senior Medical Officers, broken down by gender (into number of men and women in this set, and the average salary paid to each gender).
• The average annual remuneration paid to full-time Resident Medical Officers, broken down by gender (into number of men and women in this set, and the average salary paid to each gender).
• The average annual remuneration paid to full-time ED nurses, broken down by gender (into number of men and women in this set, and the average salary paid to each gender).
• The number of sexual harassment, gender discrimination or bullying complaints each year for the last five years (Jan to Dec, including 2020 YTD), with a brief outline of each compliant and a breakdown by gender.
• Any reports, documents, correspondence, legal advice or emails (both internal and external) regarding: gender pay gap, gender bias, and/or sexual harassment and gender discrimination between January 2015 to September 2020.

Tags RemunerationSalarySalary bandsStaff

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How many external reviews/reports that relate to the financial management of the CDHB have been commissioned in the last three years, and what was the cost of each review/report?

Tags FinancialPerformanceReview

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The Minutes relating to Quality, Finance, Audit, and Risk Committee (QFARC) meeting 29/9/2020. Items. 4 - 9.

Tags QFARC

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Please provide Total Recordable Injury Frequency Rate (TRIFR) data reported by DHB from 2013 to Nov 2020 by month and year.

Tags Total Recordable Injury Frequency RateTRIFR

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How many foreign nationals (non-resident) have been charged by public health system between 1/4/2019 and 31/3/2020.

Tags Cost of healthcareEligibilityForeign patientsNon-residents

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Average Registered Nurse salary 2005-2020.

Tags Registered nurseSalarySalary bandsStaff

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• All board reports relating to the DHB deficit since 1 January 2019.
• All correspondence with the Ministry of Health since 1 January 2020.
• All correspondence with the Treasury since 1 January 2020.
• All reports and briefings, including drafts, relating to reducing the Canterbury DHB deficit.
• All reports and briefings, including drafts, relating to the Government’s potential equity injection.

Tags Board MeetingCDHB BoardEMTMinistry of HealthTreasury

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The full agendas and minutes of the Canterbury DHB Quality, Finance, Audit, and Risk Committee (QFARC) meetings held in August and September 2020.

Tags QFARC

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Review of Canterbury DHB 10 Year Plan assumptions undertaken by PWC and sent to Justine White in November 2017.

Tags 10 Year PlanJustine WhitePWC

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• Copies of correspondence between Mr Meates and the DHB board chairs (Dr John Wood and then Sir John Hansen) between 1 January 2019 and 5 August 2020.
• Copies of correspondence between Mr Meates and crown monitor Lester Levy between 14 June 2019 and 5 August 2020.
• Copies of correspondence between Mr Meates and the Ministry of Health between 1 January 2019 and 5 August 2020.
  
  

Tags David MeatesLester LevyMinistry of HealthSir John Hansen

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A copy of the final EY report tabled / presented to the Board and/ or QFARC between June - September 2020.

A copy of the Executive Management Team (EMT) response to the EY report tabled / presented to the Board and / or QFARC between June - September 2020

Tags EYFinancialPerformanceReview

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DHB spend on locums for medical specialists every year for the past five years. i.e. General surgery, Orthopaedics, Enterology, Gynaecology, Ophthalmology, Urology, Cardiology.

Total locum spend year by year over this period, as well as the total internal staff spent on specialists for the same periods?

What is the size of the population the DHB serves and what is its annual operating budget? It would also be helpful to have explanations for higher (or lower) than usual locum costs for particular periods and whether or not the DHB offers limited services in respective departments.

Tags CardiologyEnterologyGynaecologyLocumsOphthalmologyOrthopaedicsShort-staffingSMOsSpecialistsStaffingSurgeryUrology

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Maternity - What are the additional costs associated with increasing cot capacity above budget? Cost of sending a woman away to give birth, including flights - over last five years. Comparing cost of sending a woman away to give birth and cost of increasing capacity, which one is cheapest?

Tags BirthsCapacityMaternity

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Total cost of EY work commissioned by CDHB Board over past year.

Tags Ernst & YoungEYFinancialPerformance

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From the start of 2019 to today’s date, details of all work the board has engaged EY to do.

• Please list each engagement by date and provide details of the board’s request, including letters of engagement and terms of reference.
• Please state what kind of procurement process was used for this work.
• How much has EY invoiced to date for this work?
• Please provide copies of any reports produced by EY from this work.

Tags Ernst & YoungEYFinancialPerformance

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All annual reports from financial year 2001/2002 - 2007/2008.

Tags Annual ReportStaffing

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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 CLGClinical Leaders GroupCrown MonitorFacilitiesFinancialLester LevyMinister of HealthPerformanceReviewSir John Hansen

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• 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 MeetingDepreciation costsFinancialPerformance

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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 & YoungEYFinancialPerformance

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

Tags FinancialFunding

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• 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 & YoungEYFinancialPerformanceReview

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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 HipkinsErnst & YoungEYFinancialMinister of HealthPerformanceReviewSir John Hansen

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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 & YoungEYFinancialPerformanceReviewSir John Hansen

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Last financial year (2019/2020) Total sum paid direct to each medical college on behalf of all medical practitioners, and through reimbursements on behalf of SMOs and RMOs.

Tags FeesMedical colleges

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