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Dear Amy

Thank you for your Official Information Act request, received today.

 

We are working on a response for you, which will be sent as soon as
practical and within the 20 working day timeframe as per the Ombudsman's
Guidance, by 8 April 2020.  We will contact you if we have any queries
with the request or need to extend the timeframe for your response. In
those cases, we will advise why the extension is necessary, and indicate
when the response will be ready.

 

Please note that, like all DHBs across New Zealand, Counties Manukau DHB
has begun a process of proactive disclosure, which means OIA responses
will be publicly available via our website around 10 days after they have
been released.  Our response will advise if we intend to publish the
response, (with personal information removed) and related documents on the
CMDHB website. If you advise us of special reasons why proactive
disclosure should not apply to your response, we will consider this. 

 

Kind regards

Dinah

 

 

Dinah Nicholas

Executive Assistant to Margie Apa - Chief Executive

Board Secretary

___________________________________________

T: +64 9 277 3401 I Ext: 53401 I M: 021 682 923 

[1][email address]

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-----Original Message-----

From: Amy S Van Wey Lovatt
[[4]mailto:[FOI #12431 email]]

Sent: Wednesday, 11 March 2020 4:40 a.m.

To: Communications (CMDHB)

Subject: Official Information request - Best Practice: Archiving, Storage,
Biobanking of Human Tissue for Diagnostic Purposes

 

Dear Counties Manukau District Health Board,

 

Request 1:

I am writing to request a copy of the CMDHB best practice protocol for the
archiving, storage, or biobanking of human tissue for diagnostic purposes,
whether they are formalin fixed, paraffin embedded or pathology slides,
and the standards, legislation or scientific evidence which provides the
basis for the CMDHB protocol.

 

Request 2:

Is the CMDHB best practice protocol for the archiving, storage, or
biobanking of human tissue for diagnostic purposes, whether they are
formalin fixed, paraffin embedded or pathology slides, is a standard which
is universally adopted by all NZ DHB's and medical laboratories, or does
each DHB or medical laboratory determine their own best practice?

 

Request 3:

Please explain the potential hazards of leaving formalin fixed, paraffin
embedded or pathology slides in an unsecure, non-temperature regulated
environment (say a on an employee's desk outside of the laboratory) for 2
months.

 

Request 4:

Please provide me with the name of the independent agency or agencies
which provides oversight for medical laboratories in NZ.

 

Thank you for your assistance in this matter.

 

Please note, this request is for my information and is not a reflection
upon the practices at CMDHB but to ascertain if there is a universal
standard within NZ. I will be making this same request to every DHB in NZ.

 

Kindest regards,

Amy S Van Wey Lovatt

(A NZ Citizen)

 

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Dear Amy,

Please find attached our final response to your request for Information.

Kia pai tō rā

 

Kind regards,

 

Karen Dady

Official Information Act Specialist I Communications Team

Strategy & Infrastructure

Counties Manukau Health

____________________________________________________________________

Middlemore Hospital I level 1 Esme Green Building

[1]countiesmanukau.health.nz

 

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From: Dinah Nicholas (CMDHB)
Sent: Wednesday, 11 March 2020 1:09 p.m.
To: [2][FOI #12431 email]
Subject: FW: OIA 11032020 - Van Wey Lovatt - Best Practice: Archiving,
Storage, Biobanking of Human Tissue for Diagnostic Purposes

Dear Amy

Thank you for your Official Information Act request, received today.

 

We are working on a response for you, which will be sent as soon as
practical and within the 20 working day timeframe as per the Ombudsman's
Guidance, by 8 April 2020.  We will contact you if we have any queries
with the request or need to extend the timeframe for your response. In
those cases, we will advise why the extension is necessary, and indicate
when the response will be ready.

 

Please note that, like all DHBs across New Zealand, Counties Manukau DHB
has begun a process of proactive disclosure, which means OIA responses
will be publicly available via our website around 10 days after they have
been released.  Our response will advise if we intend to publish the
response, (with personal information removed) and related documents on the
CMDHB website. If you advise us of special reasons why proactive
disclosure should not apply to your response, we will consider this. 

 

Kind regards

Dinah

 

 

Dinah Nicholas

Executive Assistant to Margie Apa - Chief Executive

Board Secretary

___________________________________________

T: +64 9 277 3401 I Ext: 53401 I M: 021 682 923 

[3][email address]

Room 13, Poutasi Corridor, Middlemore Hospital, Otahuhu

Middlemore Hospital, Private Bag 93311, Otahuhu, Auckland 1640

www: [4][email address]

[5]cid:image001.png@01D1964E.44331930

 

 

-----Original Message-----

From: Amy S Van Wey Lovatt
[[6]mailto:[FOI #12431 email]]

Sent: Wednesday, 11 March 2020 4:40 a.m.

To: Communications (CMDHB)

Subject: Official Information request - Best Practice: Archiving, Storage,
Biobanking of Human Tissue for Diagnostic Purposes

 

Dear Counties Manukau District Health Board,

 

Request 1:

I am writing to request a copy of the CMDHB best practice protocol for the
archiving, storage, or biobanking of human tissue for diagnostic purposes,
whether they are formalin fixed, paraffin embedded or pathology slides,
and the standards, legislation or scientific evidence which provides the
basis for the CMDHB protocol.

 

Request 2:

Is the CMDHB best practice protocol for the archiving, storage, or
biobanking of human tissue for diagnostic purposes, whether they are
formalin fixed, paraffin embedded or pathology slides, is a standard which
is universally adopted by all NZ DHB's and medical laboratories, or does
each DHB or medical laboratory determine their own best practice?

 

Request 3:

Please explain the potential hazards of leaving formalin fixed, paraffin
embedded or pathology slides in an unsecure, non-temperature regulated
environment (say a on an employee's desk outside of the laboratory) for 2
months.

 

Request 4:

Please provide me with the name of the independent agency or agencies
which provides oversight for medical laboratories in NZ.

 

Thank you for your assistance in this matter.

 

Please note, this request is for my information and is not a reflection
upon the practices at CMDHB but to ascertain if there is a universal
standard within NZ. I will be making this same request to every DHB in NZ.

 

Kindest regards,

Amy S Van Wey Lovatt

(A NZ Citizen)

 

-------------------------------------------------------------------

 

This is an Official Information request made via the FYI website.

 

Please use this email address for all replies to this request:

[7][FOI #12431 email]

 

 

Is [8][Counties Manukau District Health Board request email] the wrong address for Official
Information requests to Counties Manukau District Health Board? If so,
please contact us using this form:

[9]https://scanmail.trustwave.com/?c=7264&a...

 

Disclaimer: This message and any reply that you make will be published on
the internet. Our privacy and copyright policies:

[10]https://scanmail.trustwave.com/?c=7264&a...

 

If you find this service useful as an Official Information officer, please
ask your web manager to link to us from your organisation's OIA or LGOIMA
page.

 

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for jobs in the public health sector.  100% owned and supported nationally
by the District Health Boards (DHBs) and the New Zealand Blood Service
(NZBS).
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