Minutes from the 187th Medicines Adverse Reaction Committee Meeting
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From: Maxwell
Dear Ministry of Health,
I write as a New Zealand citizen.
Can you please provide the the full Meeting Minutes of the 187th Medicines Adverse Reactions Committee (MARC) quarterly meeting held in September 2021, as it appears to be missing from the archive on the Medsafe website as of today Mon 4th October 2021, source: http://www.medsafe.govt.nz/profs/MARC/Mi....
Yours faithfully,
Maxwell
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Kia ora Maxwell,
Thank you for your request for official information received on 4 October
2021 for:
"Can you please provide the the full Meeting Minutes of the 187th
Medicines Adverse Reactions Committee (MARC) quarterly meeting held in
September 2021, as it appears to be missing from the archive on the
Medsafe website as of today Mon 4th October 2021, source:
[1]http://www.medsafe.govt.nz/profs/MARC/Mi...
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Kia ora Maxwell,
Please find attached a response to your official information act request.
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From: Maxwell
Dear OIA Requests,
Thank you for your response. In regards to your reason for refusal:
"We anticipate that this information will likely be released by November 2021, earlier if possible."
Today is Friday 29th October. Unless the Medsafe website is updated over the weekend (unlikely), I must insist that the minutes for the 187th Medicines Adverse Reaction Committee Meeting be released as soon as possible on Monday 1 November.
Historically these quarterly meetings are held in the first or second week of the quarter, before being promptly published within a couple of weeks of the sitting for public access. Given the historic precedent, this is now at least 6-weeks behind it's usual publication date.
Please publish the minutes out of urgency for public access.
Yours sincerely,
Maxwell
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Kia ora Maxwell,
Thank you for your follow up correspondence regarding your OIA ref: H202113572.
The information you have requested is publicly available at: https://www.medsafe.govt.nz/profs/advers....
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