Canterbury DHB mental health care service use
Elodie Green made this Official Information request to Canterbury District Health Board
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From: Elodie Green
Dear Canterbury District Health Board,
I am seeking information on the performance and service of DHBs for their provision of mental health services. I would like data for the following:
For Community Mental Health; Child and adolescent metal health; and (Te Haika) Mental Health Crisis response:
• Number of distinct new entries/cases per month, by age group (five year bands if possible*), 2015 – 2020 calendar year
• Number of total new entries/cases per month, by age group (five year bands), 2015 – 2020 calendar year
• Number of distinct cases open at month end, by age group (five year bands), 2015 – 2020 calendar year
• Number of distinct exits per month, by age group (five year bands if possible*), 2015 – 2020 calendar year
• Number of total new exits per month, by age group (five year bands), 2015 – 2020 calendar year
For the DHB:
• Number of hospitalisations for mental health per year, by age group (five year bands), 2015 – 2020 calendar year
• Number of people waitlisted to see a psychologist per year, by age group (five year bands), 2015 – 2020 calendar year
• Number of people seeing a psychologist, per year, by age group (five year bands), 2015 – 2020 calendar year
• Number of psychologists employed by the DHB at year end (split by part time, full time, contracted) by year, 2015 – 2020 calendar year
*Five year bands are ideally 0 – 5, 6 – 10, 11 -15, 16- 20, 21 – 25, 26 -30, etc. If there is too much suppression in those age bands can it please be in ten year age bands.
Yours faithfully,
Elodie Green
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From: Kathleen Smitheram
Canterbury District Health Board
Kind regards
Kathleen Smitheram
Canterbury District Health Board and West Coast District Health Board
Official Information Act Co-ordinator, Planning and Funding
Level 2, 32 Oxford Terrace
PO Box 1600
Christchurch 8140
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From: Kathleen Smitheram
Canterbury District Health Board
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Dear Elodie,
Can you please clarify the type of data you are specifically seeking for
‘community mental health services’ in Question 1 of your request please
(attached).
Does this include AOD, ID and Forensic?
1. For Community Mental Health; Child and adolescent metal health; and
(Te Haika) Mental Health Crisis response:
a. Number of distinct new entries/cases per month, by age group
(five-year bands if possible*), 2015 – 2020 calendar year
b. Number of total new entries/cases per month, by age group
(five-year bands), 2015 – 2020 calendar year
c. Number of distinct cases open at month end, by age group
(five-year bands), 2015 – 2020 calendar year
d. Number of distinct exits per month, by age group (five-year bands
if possible*), 2015 – 2020 calendar year
e. Number of total new exits per month, by age group (five-year
bands), 2015 – 2020 calendar year
Kind regards
Kathleen Smitheram
Canterbury District Health Board and West Coast District Health Board
Official Information Act Co-ordinator, Planning and Funding
Level 2, 32 Oxford Terrace
PO Box 1600
Christchurch 8140
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From: Kathleen Smitheram
Canterbury District Health Board
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Dear Elodie,
I am just following up re our request for clarification (see below).
Kind regards
Kathleen Smitheram
Canterbury District Health Board and West Coast District Health Board
Official Information Act Co-ordinator, Planning and Funding
Level 2, 32 Oxford Terrace
PO Box 1600
Christchurch 8140
(DDI (03) 364 4134| 6: 03 364 4165 | *[email address];
From: Kathleen Smitheram
Sent: Wednesday, 24 March 2021 8:06 AM
To: [FOI #14946 email]
Subject: Clarification please re Official Information Act request CDHB
10566
Dear Elodie,
Can you please clarify the type of data you are specifically seeking for
‘community mental health services’ in Question 1 of your request please
(attached).
Does this include AOD, ID and Forensic?
1. For Community Mental Health; Child and adolescent metal health; and
(Te Haika) Mental Health Crisis response:
a. Number of distinct new entries/cases per month, by age group
(five-year bands if possible*), 2015 – 2020 calendar year
b. Number of total new entries/cases per month, by age group
(five-year bands), 2015 – 2020 calendar year
c. Number of distinct cases open at month end, by age group
(five-year bands), 2015 – 2020 calendar year
d. Number of distinct exits per month, by age group (five-year bands
if possible*), 2015 – 2020 calendar year
e. Number of total new exits per month, by age group (five-year
bands), 2015 – 2020 calendar year
Kind regards
Kathleen Smitheram
Canterbury District Health Board and West Coast District Health Board
Official Information Act Co-ordinator, Planning and Funding
Level 2, 32 Oxford Terrace
PO Box 1600
Christchurch 8140
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From: Elodie Green
Dear Kathleen Smitheram,
Yes please. I am carry out this request on all DHBs and so am lacking specific information to each request. I recognise that your DHB has quite a lot of services! For these services you can aggregate the numbers under the umbrella terms if this helps. An example is for Forensics, all units can be grouped together.
For clarification, AOD is Alcohol or Drugs, and ID is Intellectual Disability?
Pasting this link for reference of all mental health services offered by Canterbury DHB
https://www.cdhb.health.nz/health-servic...
Ngā mihi,
Elodie Green
From: Kathleen Smitheram
Canterbury District Health Board
Thank you Elodie.
Kind regards
Kathleen Smitheram
Canterbury District Health Board and West Coast District Health Board
Official Information Act Co-ordinator, Planning and Funding
Level 2, 32 Oxford Terrace
PO Box 1600
Christchurch 8140
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From: Kathleen Smitheram
Canterbury District Health Board
Dear Elodie
Please find attached our response to your Official Information Act request
CDHB 10566.
Kind regards
Kathleen Smitheram
Canterbury District Health Board and West Coast District Health Board
Official Information Act Co-ordinator, Planning and Funding
Level 2, 32 Oxford Terrace
PO Box 1600
Christchurch 8140
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From: Elodie Green
Kia ora Kathleen,
Thank you for providing that information
Ngā mihi,
Elodie Green
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