Southern District Health Board
Dunedin Hospital
201 Great King Street
Private Bag 1921
DUNEDIN 9054
Chief Executive Officer
Phone 03-476 9456 Fax 03-476 9450
4 July 2019
Brodie Fraser
Email:
[FYI request #10544 email]
Dear Brodie
Official Information Act Request
I refer to your Official Information Act request, partially transferred to us by the Ministry of
Health on 20 June 2019 in which you specifically requested the following:
How many, if any, transgender individuals have been referred to endocrine services in New Zealand in the
past five years, broken down by year?
Southern DHB does not code ‘transgender status’ for individuals presenting to our endocrine
outpatients service. Gathering this data would require manually reviewing the individual records
of all patients who attended the endocrine clinic each year for the past five years. After
considering the options of charging or extending the timeframe, we have concluded that we are
unable to respond to your request under section 18(f) of the Official Information Act, as the
information requested cannot be made available without substantial collation or research.
You have the right to seek an investigation and review of our decision by the Ombudsman. The
Ombudsman's Office can be contacted on 0800 802 602 or on-line at
http://www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/. Yours sincerely
Chris Fleming
Chief Executive Officer
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