10th January 2022
Andrew McGregor
Private/Individual
Email:
[FYI request #17687 email]
Dear Andrew
Official Information Act Request for – Declined Gastro-intestinal Referrals
I write in response to your Official Information Act request received by us by way of transfer from the
Ministry of Health on the 2nd December 2021, you requested the following information:
1. The percentage of patients that have been declined referrals from multiple internal and
external requests for gastro-intestinal department. Multiple being more than 3 separate
GP/Doctor referrals
Counties Manukau Health Response:
For context Counties Manukau Health (CM Health) employs over 8,500 staff and provides health and
support services to people living in the Counties Manukau region (approx. 601,490 people). We see over
118,000 people in our Emergency Department each year, and over 2,000 visitors come through
Middlemore Hospital daily.
1. The percentage of patients that have been declined referrals from multiple internal and
external requests for gastro-intestinal department. Multiple being more than 3 separate
GP/Doctor referrals
For the time period 1st January 2010 through to 1st November 2021 out of 84,076 gastro-
intestinal patients, 44 patients had more than 3 separate referrals declined, which is a
percentage of 0.05%.
I trust this information answers your request. You are entitled to seek a review of the response by the
Ombudsman under section 28(3) of the Official Information Act. Information about how to make a
complaint is available at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or Freephone 0800 802 602.
Please note that this response or an edited version of this may be published on the Counties Manukau
Health website. If you consider there are good reasons why this response should not be made publicly
available, we will be happy to consider this.
Yours sincerely
Fepulea’i Margie Apa
Chief Executive Officer
Counties Manukau Health Counties Manukau Health
Private Bag 93311, Otahuhu, Auckland
T: 09 276 0000 | cmdhb.org.nz
