• During which period was ECT used in gay conversion/aversion therapy at the Hospital?
• When did the hospital stop the practice?
• How common was this practice?
• Are there any records about the number of patients who received this treatment?
• Why was this used as a treatment?

Tags ECTECT (Electroconvulsive Therapy)

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 The number of children and adults admitted to hospital with malnutrition, broken down by age, between January 1, 2015 and December 31, 2020.

Tags MalnutritionNutritionPopulation nutrition

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1. The number of written and oral complaints of harassment received from women accessing abortion at your facilities for the period 2019 to 31st January 2021?
2. The nature of these complaints?
3. Copies of those complaints with identifying details deleted?
4. The number of written complaints of harassment received from staff entering and exiting your abortion facilities for the period 2019 to 31st January 2021?

Tags AbortionCounsellingHarassmentTermination

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Follow up to response to 10519 Abortions/Terminations and Counselling:

1. Is this assessment an initiative of your Board or is it the result of a direction from the Ministry of Health?
2. Does this assessment result in many women choosing not to have an abortion?
3. What is the nature of the support and care that you refer women to?
4. As a result of this assessment do many women disclose that they are subject to coercion, violence and threats of abandonment?

Tags AbortionCounsellingTermination

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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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• Diagnostic imaging modalities of Cardio Ultrasound, MRI, X-ray CT, PET and SPECT.
• Number of units (instruments) of each modality.
• What entity (government or private) funded each unit.
• What entity operates each unit.
• Number of patients processed by each unit per annum.

Tags Cardio UltrasoundCTMRIPET-CT ScanningRadiologyScanSPECTX-ray

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• Number of abortions for 2020, number of pre and post abortion counselling sessions.

Tags AbortionCounsellingTermination

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• A detailed breakdown of any and all incidents relating to equipment not being properly sterilised by Canterbury District Health Board and West Coast District Health Board from March 2020.
• Please clarify if the lack of sterilisation was picked up before or after patient exposure.

Tags SafetySterilisation of equipmentSurgery

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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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New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) interpreter contracts.

Tags InterpretersNZSLSign Language

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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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Hip and Knee replacements referred by private specialist / referred privately by specialist who also works for DHB / number of private referrals who don't have to undertake an FSA.

Tags FSA'sHipHip replacementKneeKnee replacementPrivate referralsReferralsSurgery

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People treated for firearm injuries since January 2016?

Tags FirearmsMass shootingsshooting

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• What is the maximum gestation accepted for an abortion at your facility?
• What was the gestational age of the oldest unborn child terminated at your facility since 2010?
• Why, in the rare event that a child is born alive in an abortion at your facility is it not provided with the care that is mandated by the MoH?

Tags AbortionTermination

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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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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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A serious adverse event (SAE) is one which has resulted in significant additional treatment, major loss of function, is life threatening or has led to an unexpected death.

Tags PatientsQualitySafetySerious adverse events

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Fertility treatments:

• How many treatments resulted in a live birth OR the birth of multiple babies?
• If known, please break this down by relationship types e.g. male/female, same sex, individuals, age groups (e.g. woman 20-25; 26-30; 31-35; 36-40; 41-45)
• The names of the private company used to administer public fertility treatments and the amount of taxpayer funding they have received for providing these services each year for the past three years
• Please break this information down by the various forms of fertility treatment available under the public system
• Outline the total costs of these treatments to the taxpayer for each year for the past three years

Tags FertilityIVF

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Healthcare services for transgender people provided by Canterbury DHB.

Tags Gender reassignmentGender-affirming healthcare servicesTransgender

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• What is the maximum bed occupancy in ICU Intensive Care Units, across all hospitals?
• What has been the bed occupancy rate (% beds occupied in ICUs by week/month for the period 15 March to 1st October 2020.

Tags Bed occupancyChristchurch HospitalCICUICU

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Canterbury DHB's Readiness report / assessment for the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme.

Tags Bowel CancerCancerCancer screening programmeScreening

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

Tags CancerLeaveOncologyOutsourcingPatientsradiation oncologyRadiation therapyShort-staffing

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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 HospitalChronic painPain

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Endoscopy consents and procedures.

Tags Endoscopy

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• 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 ColonoscopiesColonoscopyOutsourcingSurgeryWait list

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Healthcare services and funding provided for LGBTQIA population. Gender.

Tags GayGender reassignmentGender-affirming healthcare servicesIntersexLesbianLGBTQIATransgender

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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 HospitalConcussionHead injuryMRIProtocols

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

Tags CCUHDUHospital bedsNegative isolation pressure roomsNumber of beds

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

1. ED presentations
2. Overall hospital capacity
3. 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 CapacityEmergency DepartmentFSA's

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Information regarding colonoscopy waiting lists and referrals 2018-2020

Tags ColonoscopiesColonoscopySurgeryWait list

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Ophthalmology referrals, wait times, procedures, and services.

Tags Eye ClinicOphthalmologistOphthalmologyWait listWait times

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All and any correspondence held by DHB pertaining to movement of the RMO medical year on a permanent basis since 1/01/2020

Tags RMOsStaffing

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Cerebral Palsy and Pain Management

Tags Cerebral PalsyChild healthChildrenPaediatricsPainPain Management

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Orthopaedic patients wait times Canterbury.

Tags First Specialist AssessmentFSA'sOrthopaedicOrthopaedicsWait listWait times

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Number of people who have lost their home help post Covid: How many people in Ashburton district were on home help pre-Covid: How many Now. Reasons for stopping service.

Tags AshburtonHome based careHome Support

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*Number of mental health inpatient facility beds at DHB by name of facility. *Number of people admitted as mental health inpatients who identify as transgender or gender diverse in the last 12 months. *total number of people admitted as mental health inpatients in the last 12 months

Tags GenderMental HealthPatientsTransgender

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The total number of annual leave days taken by all Senior Medical Officers (SMOs) in each of following months: December 2018, January 2019, December 2019 and January 2020.

Tags Annual LeaveLeaveSMOsStaffing

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Gender Dysphoria questions - under 18 yr olds - diagnosis and prescriptions.

Tags Gender dysphoriaGender-affirming healthcare services

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Breast reconstruction wait lists 2019/2020.

Tags Breast reconstructionFundingSurgeryWait list

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