PPE stock and readiness for another COVID outbreak.

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

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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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I request the following information relating to Managed Quarantine:

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

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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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Yaldhurst quarries -follow up to request 10602: I would appreciate any report created by Dr. Pink at the time being provided, and fully understand and appreciate current circumstances make this most certainly a low priority.  If there is no report from him, and the only report in existence as a review / analysis of the monitoring being that by Mr. Fowles if I could be advised that is the case.

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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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Yaldhurst quarries - International peer review reports - personal monitoring of dust exposure and levels involving Yaldhurst residents in the vicinity of quarries.

Also see OIA request 10602(a)

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Re the HPV vaccine in schools:

• How many schools are part of the HPV immunisation programme in NZ
• How many schools are not part of the HPV immunisation programme in NZ?
• Which ones?

Tags HPVHPV Gardasil VaccineHuman papillomavirusesSchoolsVaccinationsVaccine

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HPV Gardasil Vaccine: Number of schools refusing school based immunisation programme for this vaccine.

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

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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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Fit Testing Problems: What was the % of workers across the whole of the DHB who had received fit testing in the previous 12 months? What are the actual numbers for each DHB? (are some DHBs performing better than others?

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Aggregate data: smokers, admissions and ethnicity.

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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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All correspondence and reports about Fulton Hogan appealing the resource consent conditions of its quarry near Templeton in Canterbury

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Partial transfer from MoH. Please supply three public health audit reports of 1080 poison operations.

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1. Copies of any protocols developed by, endorsed by or agreed to by Canterbury Health Laboratories  in relation to testing of samples from various patient groups within Canterbury.
2. A summary of the mean and 90th centile time between sample collection and result reporting for covid-19 nucleic acid testing for samples analysed by Canterbury Health Laboratories. 

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RT-PCR Tests for for COVID-19 in Canterbury.

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How COVID-19 has impacted on community oral health service for pre-school and primary school children.

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COVID-19 related Hospitalisation costs

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Reports over past 24 months re Potential health impacts of degraded freshwater quality. Economic costs of degraded freshwater.

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Covid-19 hospitalisation and mortality numbers by Māori, Non-Māori, Māori with lived experience of disability and non-Māori with lived experience of disability.

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