22 June 2020 
 
 
Ms Van Wey Lovatt 
Email - [FYI request #12509 email]  
 
 
Dear Ms Van Wey Lovatt 
 
Official Information Act (OIA) Request OIA Y20-1108 
Publication of all DHB Policies, Protocols and Best Practice 
Documents 
 
Your Official Information Act request on 30 May 2020 is acknowledged 
and was passed on to me for a response. 
 
You have made the following three requests: 
 
Request 1: 
You have requested that MidCentral DHB make ALL of its policies, 
protocols and best practice documents publicly available.  
 
Your request 1 is refused as the request is not within the scope of section 
12(1) of the Official Information Act 1982. The Act does not provide for 
requests to make substantial amounts of information publically available. 
 
The MidCentral DHB have over 2500 policies, procedures and other 
guidelines. The website is not currently capable of hosting this amount of 
material. It is the DHB’s desire to ensure all documents the public have a 
legitimate interest in are publically available and it is working towards 
digital options to enable this. 
 
Request 2:  
You have requested confirmation that MidCentral DHB laboratory and 
radiology departments, and the agencies the DHB has contracts for 
pathology and radiology services, are IANZ accredited? 
 
All MidCentral DHB laboratory and radiology departments, and the 
agencies the DHB has contracts with for pathology and radiology services 
are IANZ accredited. 
 
Request 3: 
You have requested ALL of the documentation submitted to IANZ for 
accreditation by MidCentral DHB and contracted agencies to be made 
publicly available upon the DHB website. 
 
Strategy, Planning & Performance 
MidCentral District Health Board, PO Box 2056, Palmerston North.  Phone:  06 350 8928 
 
 

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Your request 3 is refused as the request is not within the scope of section 
12(1) of the Official Information Act 1982. The Act does not provide for 
requests to make substantial amounts of information publically available. 
 
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.parlaiment.nz/ 
 
Please note that this response, or an edited version of this response, may 
be published on the MidCentral DHB website ten working days after your 
receipt of this response. 
 
 
Yours sincerely 
 
 
 
 
Craig Johnston 
General Manager Strategy, Planning and Performance 

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