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RE Official Information Act request WCDHB 9390
I refer to your email dated 13 December 2019 to the Ministry of Health which they subsequently partially transferred to us on 3 February 2020, requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB. Specifically, regarding addiction services question 3 a,b and c.
1. Can you please provide a list of the different types of addiction services people can access through the public health system?
2. How many rehab and detox beds are currently available through the public health system for people addicted to drugs and alcohol?
3. How many people were put on a waitlist to access detox and rehab addiction services each year over the past four years (2016 – 2019)?
What was your DHB’s capital expenditure of the last ten years? What capital has your DHB spent on infrastructure?
RE Official information request WCDHB 9385
I refer to your email dated 24 January 2020 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB regarding calls to the mental health crisis team. We note your clarification received 30 January as below.
1. I would like to obtain the number of phone* calls to the mental health crisis team over the past five years broken down by year.
2. I would also like to obtain how many of these phone* calls were referred to police.
3. I would also like to obtain how many phone* calls were not answered.
Regarding poisoning incident at a DOC hut after the flyover at the TeMaruia Aerial 1080 poison operation. Please confirm whether these members of the public were contacted and when. What information were they provided with?
RE Official Information Act request WCDHB 9377(a)
I refer to your email, dated 16 December 2019, requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB. This request being a follow up to our response to WCDHB 9377. Specifically:
1. Re Q2 If someone should show signs of 1080 poisoning after contact with buried, or non-buried, carcasses what differential diagnoses will be considered and used for treatment and will
2. DHB staff ignore both the precautionary principle and the results from an independent lab but use the results from a lab which does not test for fluorocitrate, the toxic compound, and uses a testing method which is over 30 years old?
Advisory Committee Papers for 12 March 2020 Meeting
How many West Coast four year olds received a B4 School check each year in the last five years (to March 31 each year) and how many in each year were assessed as obese?
Official Information Request WCDHB 9386
I refer to your email dated 29 January 2020 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB.
Official Information Request WCDHB 9382
I refer to your email dated 13th January 2020 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB.
• I would like to see the numbers and cost figures for the past twelve months for medical transfers. But I would like to know if there has been an increase within that period so a break-down of flights by the month would be helpful.
We are interested in the number and cost of medical patient transfers by helicopter, to and from Buller hospital. I understand there were three on Saturday afternoon alone and we are wondering why patients cannot be transported more cheaply by road? It’s been suggested there may be a shortage of St John volunteers to drive or accompany them.
The questions are:
• How often is this happening?
Official Information Request WCDHB 9384
We refer to your email dated 16 January 2020 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB. Specifically:
• How many assaults there were on staff in the past year, and how it compares to the year before?
a. How many were physical?
b. How many were verbal?
c. Did anyone require medical treatment?
Board Papers for the West Coast DHB Board meeting Friday, 21 February 2020 meeting
Official Information Request WCDHB 9380
I refer to your email dated 4 January 2020 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB regarding Hospital floor space.
1. To provide an approximate estimate of hospital floor space in square metres of all hospitals owned by West Coast District Health Board. A rough estimate will be fine.
RE Official Information Act request WCDHB 9379
I refer to your email, dated 5 December 2019 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB.
• Have there been any suicides of people while in the care of the DHB in the past five years? (On the ward)
• Have there been any suicides by someone within a week of discharge over the past five years?
• Have there been any suicides by someone living in the community with support in the past five years?
Remuneration and ancillary costs as result of strike action Laboratory Workers relating to strike action 14/15 November 2019.
RE Official Information Act request WCDHB 9378
I refer to your email, dated 26 November 2019 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB regarding chronic pain services for the population of our district health board. Specifically:
1. Are chronic pain services separately funded by the DHB? If so please provided data on:
o Budgeted and actual expenditure in 2017/2018 and 2018/2019
o Number of pain specialists/consultants employed by the DHB
o Number of patients (both non-ACC and ACC patients) who received services in 2017/2018 and 2018/2019
o Average waiting times for an appointment following referral from a GP or other health practitioner
o Makeup and dedicated FTE of the multidisciplinary team workforce.
2. If there is no chronic pain service, please provide information on:
o Where patients are referred to, and the average waiting times for assessment and treatment in 2017/2018 and 2018/2019
o Number of patients referred for services out of the district in 2017/2018 and 2018/2019.
3. What steps is the DHB taking to improve chronic pain services?
The West Coast District Health Board is pleased to present the Maternity Quality and Safety Programme Annual Report for 2018/19.
The West Coast has had a busy year again this year as we work towards the development of a Maternity strategy that will guide us for the next five years. A broad
framework was presented to a Hui in February this year and we now continue to refine the outcomes of the feedback. This work along with the realignment of the West
Coast health system beyond maternity has prompted much discussion about how we best meet the needs of our maternity population. The discussions have also developed
into how maternity then sits alongside the other work happening particularly in the well child and mental health spaces.
RE Official Information Act request WCDHB 9356
1.The performance measure results of each department from September 2017 to September 2019 e.g. patient flow indicators.
2.The number of vacancies in specialist roles across each DHB department and length of each vacancy from September 2017 to September 2019?
RE Official Information Act request WCDHB 9377
I refer to your email, dated 24 November 2019, requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB in relation to 1080 aerial drops of 1080 pellets. Specifically:
As the local Medical Officer of Health authorises 1080 aerial drops of 1080 pellets:
1.What monitoring will be done to ensure there is no public health risk from the contamination of Westport beaches from dead carcasses after the 1080 drop in the headwaters of the Buller River?
The carcasses have been collected and buried. There is no public health risk, provided that people do not disturb the burial site and come into direct contact with the carcasses. As a general rule, people should avoid having direct contact with the bodies of dead animals (regardless of what has caused the animals to die), particularly when decomposition has set in.
2.As the official tests have found no 1080, as opposed to independent testing that has found presence of 1080 and other ingredients of 1080 pellets in several animal species, what possibilities will be investigated by health authorities?
RE Official Information Act request WCDHB 9369
I refer to your email, dated 4 November 2019, requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB.
1. The number of staff currently employed in each discipline by the WCDHB at Grey Hospital (ie registered nurses, doctors, district nurses, allied health), expressed as both a raw number and as FTEs please.
2. The number of staff expected to be employed in each discipline when the new hospital opens, expressed as both a raw number and as FTEs.
3. The annual staff cost for the hospital in the year to June 30, 2019.
4. The expected annual staff cost for the hospital after the new hospital opens.
RE Official Information Act request WCDHB 9370
I refer to your email, dated 4 November 2019, requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB.
Please may I see the DHB site master planning report-minutes from the DHB meeting on Friday (1 November 2019)?
Official Information Request WCDHB 9373
I refer to your email dated 11 November 2019 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB regarding Manaakitanga mental health inpatient unit.
I understand the Manaakitanga mental health inpatient unit building’s warrant of fitness issued by the Grey District Council is due to expire next year. Please provide the following information:
1. Any engineering reports for the unit produced in the last five years.
2. Any reports/documents on whether the unit meets earthquake code/reports on bringing it up to code.
3. The building’s warrant of fitness or other certification issued by Grey District Council in 2019 and 2018.
4. Any applications for 2020.
RE Official Information Act request WCDHB 9375
I refer to your email, dated 31 October 2019, to the Ministry of Health which they subsequently partially transferred to us on 22 November 2019 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB. Specifically:
1.The number of people who presented to a hospital emergency department with dental issues in 2014, 2015,2016,2017,2018 and 2019. Please itemise per year, and, where possible, per hospital.
The number of recorded presentations at Grey Base Hospital Emergency Department for dental issues and related matters (inclusive of dental trauma and injury during accidents) during the financial periods 1 July to 30 June, between 2014 and 2019 were as follows:
• 2014/15 – 71
• 2015/16 – 86
• 2016/17 – 107
• 2017/18 – 99
• 2018/19 – 87
2.What is the standard procedure when someone presents to the emergency department with a dental problem? Please explain standard procedure for cases where treatment is refused, and where treatment is administered.
RE Official Information Act request WCDHB 9366
I refer to your email, dated 30 October 2019, requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB.
1. The number of staff currently employed in each discipline at Buller Health (i.e. registered nurses, doctors, district nurses, allied health), expressed as both a raw number and as FTEs please.
2. The number of staff expected to be employed in each discipline at Buller Health when the new health centre opens, expressed as both a raw number and as FTEs.
3. The annual staff cost for Buller Health in the year to June 30, 2019.
4. The expected annual staff cost for Buller Health after the new health centre opens.
I refer to your email, dated 16 October 2019, requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB.
1. The total amount of debt incurred by the District Health Board in treating ineligible patients or those from overseas for the financial years of 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18, and 2018/19.
2. A breakdown of the number of patients who incurred these debts, (the totals as above) for the financial years of 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19.
Board Papers for the West Coast DHB Board meeting Friday, 13 December 2019 meeting
Tatau Pounamu Advisory Group meeting papers for 6 December 2019 meeting at Board Room, Corporate Services, Grey Base Hospital
RE Official Information Act request WCDHB 9368
I refer to your email, dated 31 October 2019, requesting the following information under the Official
Information Act from West Coast DHB regarding Granger House.
1. Details of any recent complaints, including reports on them, and any audits, from the past
six months.
RE Official Information Act request CDHB 10203 and WCDHB 9361
I refer to your email, dated 16 October 2019, requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from Canterbury DHB and West Coast DHB.
The budgeted cost of the following clinical codes covering procedures for breast reconstruction:
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RE Official Information Act request WCDHB 9359
I refer to your email, dated 14 October 2019 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB regarding the number of persons on the West Coast DHB’s Needs Assessment Service Coordination (NASC) waiting list for aged home support. Specifically:
1. The total number of people in the West Coast DHB area receiving aged home-based support services as at 30 September 2019.
2. The total number of people referred to the West Coast DHB NASC for assessment for home-based aged support services, as at 30 September 2019, where the referral/non-referral to HCSS services is yet to occur.
3. The total number of people, with a completed assessment for home-based services, referred for service to a HCSS provider during the month of September 2019.
4. The total number of people, with a completed assessment for home-based services during the month of September 2019, where no referral is to be made for such services.
RE Official Information Act request WCDHB 9354
I refer to your email dated 3 October 2019 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB, (this being a follow-up request to our response to your original request WCDHB 9329). This request pertains to vaccination and immunisation rates among staff.
All serious adverse events are reviewed through a formal process in order to analyse our existing health practices and systems. The purpose of reviewing these is to provide sufficient feedback to patients and families so they are aware of any contributing factors and causes of the event and how the DHB intends to make our systems safer.
Health Workforce New Zealand Hauora Maori Fund 2020 Application Form – PDF format
Health Workforce New Zealand Hauora Maori Fund 2020 Brochure
In preparation for the demolition needed to make way for construction of the new Buller Health facility, we are relocating a number of services to other areas of the
facility over the weekend starting Friday 22 November 2019.
From Monday 25 November, our Cobden Street entrance will become the single point of entry for the majority of our services, including Buller Medical Centre.
This flyer contains information that you need to know if you’re planning to visit the facility.
RE Official Information Act request WCDHB 9347
1. How many referrals to First Specialist Appointments from GPs for elective orthopaedic surgery?
2. How many accepted onto waiting list?
3. How many referred back to GP because considered below the threshold for service?
4. How many referred back to GP even though on or above the threshold for service?
5. How many elective orthopaedic surgeries performed at Grey Base Hospital?
6. How many elective orthopaedic surgeries for West Coast based residents performed at Christchurch Hospital?
7. How many orthopaedic surgeons on the WCDHB roster?
RE Official Information Act request WCDHB 9353
I refer to your email dated 3 October 2019 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB regarding West Coast patient movements. I note your request was clarified on 4 October 2019 as below:
1. In the 2018/2019 year to June, how many patients were sent back to their GP after their first specialist appointment?
2. How many patients were sent to ChCh for orthopaedic surgery in the year to June (2018/2019)?
3. How many orthopaedic surgery procedures were done in Greymouth in the year to June (2018/2019)?
• How many orthopaedic surgeons are on the roster?
4. How many patients had elective surgery in Greymouth in the year to June (2018/2019)?
5. How many patients from the Coast were admitted to ChCh hospital and-or had surgery in ChCh in the year to June (2018/2019)?
RE Official Information Act request WCDHB 9346
I refer to your email dated 2 September 2019 sent to the Ministry of Health which they subsequently partially transferred to us on 11 September 2019 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB regarding the HPV vaccine. I note we are responding to Questions 1, 2 and 3, specifically:
1. The number of schools offering the vaccine over the past ten years
2. The number of women who received the vaccine in schools over the past ten years
3. The number of women who received the vaccine outside of schools over the past ten years
RE Official Information Act request WCDHB 9357
I refer to your email dated 10 October 2019 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB, in relation to Prostate Cancer Treatment; specifically:
1. The current waiting time for an appointment following a referral from a GP for a prostate cancer initial consultation
2. The current waiting time for a follow-up appointment for a prostate biopsy
3. The current waiting time for a post-biopsy appointment to discuss results and treatment options
4. The current waiting time for a radical prostatectomy following the post-biopsy appointment for persons with a confirmed prostate cancer diagnosis. (Please only include those patients who undergo prostatectomy surgery who have a confirmed prostate cancer diagnosis, not those who require the surgery for other conditions.)
West Coast District Health Board Statement of Intent
Incorporating the 2019/20 Statement of Performance Expectiations
This document is our Statement of Intent which has been prepared to meet the requirements of the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act, Crown Entities Act, Public Finance Act and the expectations of the Minister of Health.
RE Official Information Act request WCDHB 9351
I refer to your email dated 30 September 2019 requesting the following information under the Official
Information Act from West Coast DHB.
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