• How many PET CT scans have been referred per year the past 3 years? 
• How many PET CT scans have been referred this year so far?
• What percentage of the patients being referred are Maori? 
• What is the average cost per PET CT scan referral?

Tags PET-CT ScanningRadiologyScan

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Re response CDHB 10519 16/2/2021.  You advised that there were 1,658 terminations performed in 2020 at your boards facilities. I have recently been advised that the Ministry of Health informed the President of Voice for Life that the number of abortions performed at your facilities in 2020 totalled 1,613 there is a difference of 45 in the totals. I would be grateful if you could advise me promptly, which is the correct total?

Tags AbortionTermination

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• How many children aged 0-14 have presented to hospital with a dog-related injury in the last year?
• How many of those children required a procedure (e.g. sutures), or admission?
• What were the ethnic and age demographics of those children?

Tags Child healthChildrenDog related injuryDogsPaediatrics

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Labral Tear Hip Surgery: Last five years. Number of patients who have requested surgery, age, gender. Number declined (age and gender) reasons declined. Number referred for assessment (age and gender), Number referred elsewhere for surgery (age and gender). Correspondence CDHB and ACC on reasons patients will not be covered by ACC. Total cost for Labral tear hip surgery.

Tags ACCHipHip replacementLabral tear hip surgeryReferralsSurgery

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The total number of annual leave days taken by (all) Senior Medical Officers (SMOs) in your employ in each of the following months for each DHB (WCDHB and CDHB) separately: December 2020 and January 2021

Tags Annual LeaveLeaveSMOsStaffing

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A summary of the costs of hospital intensive care services provided to those not entitled to NZ free health care (ineligible patients). The cost summary should include reference to the number of days or hours in intensive care. Information to cover the last three years.

Tags Cost of healthcareDebtEligibilityICUIneligible patientsIntensive CareNon-residents

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The number of times DHBs have challenged a coroner's findings after an inquest.

Tags CoronerDeathsInquests

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Transmasculine chest surgery - follow up to response to CDHB 10555.

• For transmasculine chest surgery (mastectomy) it was decided in 2019 to provide surgery for five transgender cases per annum.
• What was the previous number?
• Why are only five surgeries performed per annum?
• Are there any plans/policies in place to increase this number to meet the growing demand for gender affirming surgeries?
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Tags Gender-affirming healthcare servicesMastectomySurgeryTransgendertransmasculine chest reconstruction surgery

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Re Cardiology Dept 15-29 March 2021:

• Number of echo staff,
• hours worked;
• numbers of cases completed per day and size of backlog;
• period of time backlog has existed;
• number of and period of staff absence for any reason including training, sickness, unfilled positions, acting up;
• work allocation and prioritisation; triage system rules;
• outpatient backlog size;
• age and quality of equipment.

Tags CapacityCardiologyEchoStaffing

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• Was the CDHB not monitoring the quality of cardiac services for 2017, 2018, 2019?
  • If they did, can I have the quality reports. /Echo (which is currently the most definitive low cost screening procedure) wait times are not monitored by the CDHB for the last 3 years and no one is looking for correlation between Echo wait times and hospitalisation/death incidents?
• Again, more formally: Was the CDHB not monitoring the quality of cardiac diagnostic services and the correlation to hospitalisation/death for 2017, 2018, 2019?
  • If they did, can I have the quality reports.
• Does the CDHB produce quality reports to measure how many people were admitted to ED for heart condition while waiting for a diagnostic/procedure?

Tags CardiacECGEchoHeart surgeryProceduresQualitySurgery

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• In the past 12 months, what proportion of your DHB patients that were referred to a waiting list by a surgeon, for a joint replacement, were accepted onto the list and got surgery?
• in 2017 what proportion of your DHB patients that were referred to a waiting list by a surgeon, for a joint replacement, were accepted onto the list and got surgery?
• Is the DHB able to comment on whether there are enough GPs in the region?

Tags GPsHipHip replacementJoint replacementKneeKnee replacementPrivate referralsReferralsSurgery

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RE Intersex babies: How many intersex children have had genital surgery within their first year of life? (Could I have this info from 2016-2021 broken down into the number each year and the overall number for the ast five years / whether or not the surgery was medically necessary or whether it was cosmetic, the gender of the child as recorded on their birth certificate and the total cost per year of the surgeries. 2. How many referrals have been made to other DHBs for intersex babies in their first year of life for surgery, last five years, broken down into the number each year and the overall number 2016-2021

Tags Gender-affirming healthcare servicesIntersex children

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• The average time between acceptance onto the wait list and first appointment for patients referred to and accepted onto the waitlist for transmasculine chest reconstruction (top surgery).
• The number of publicly funded transmasculine chest reconstruction surgery completed in the last year.
• How patients are selected from the waitlist for transmasculine chest reconstruction surgery, and how often, i.e. if done by lottery how often is the lottery drawn.
• The number of referrals for transmasculine chest reconstruction in the last year, and how many were accepted and how many declined.

Tags Gender-affirming healthcare servicesSurgeryTransgendertransmasculine chest reconstruction surgery

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• Do you use Digital Dictation in your DHB? If yes, could you please answer the following questions / Speech Recognition
• Do you use Speech Recognition? If yes, could you please answer the following questions:
  • Name of the supplier & product
  • What procurement method (if any) was used to obtain this system i.e. what framework
  • The contract start date
  • The contract end date
  • Total contract value
  • Is the product integrated with PAS or EPR
  • What is the name, position and contact email/telephone number of the key internal stakeholder for this service
  • What would you like to see in this product that is currently not being delivered / Outsourced Transcription
• Do you use Outsourced Transcription? If yes, could you please answer the following questions / Online Clinic / Video Consultation
• Do you use Online Clinic / Video Consultation? If yes, could you please answer the following questions / Health Information Systems.
  • What suppliers do you use for the following?
    • PAS (Patient Administration System)
    • EPR (Electronic Patient Record)
    • eDMS (Electronic Document Management System)
    • RIS (Radiology Information System)
    • Outward mailing service provider

Tags Digital dictationeDMSEmailEPROnlineOnline ConsultationPASRISSpeech recognition

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The number of children (aged 0-14) recorded by your DHB with the following conditions in the years 2014, 2017 and 2020?

• whooping cough
• rheumatic fever
• bronchiolitis
• broncho pneumonia 
• serious dental disease 
• malnutrition

Tags BronchiolitisChild healthChildrenCommunity DentalDental diseaseMalnutritionPaediatricsPneumoniaRheumatic feverWhooping cough

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• Does your organisation have a policy or guidelines in relation to charging requestors for supplying information under the Official Information Act 1982?
• If yes, please supply a written copy of the policy/guideline, including grounds for seeking costs for supplying information, charges for photocopying, scanning or other copying of information and the hourly rate for staff time in compiling requests?
• If not, what does your organisation charge for photocopying, scanning or other copying of information and what is the hourly rate for staff time in compiling requests?
• In the 12 months from 01 January 2020 to December 31, 2020:
  • How many requests for information under the Official Information Act did your organisation receive?
  • Of these, in how many was the requestor advised that they would incur charges for copying and staff time, or any other reason?
  • In how many of these, did the requestor pay the required charge for supplying of information?
  • In total, how much did your organisation receive in payments for supplying information under the OIA?
  • What were the largest 10 amounts paid by requestors in charges for fulfilling OIA requests?

Tags Official InformationOIAOIA Policy

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Do you really have 5 MRI units that were funded and are operated by CDHB and another 5 units funded and operated by a private provider?

Ten MRI units all located in Canterbury seems like a lot. Any chance you could let me know who the private provider is?

Tags MRIRadiologyScan

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• 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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