Temporary medical exemption statistics
B. White made this Official Information request to Ministry of Health
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From: B. White
Dear Ministry of Health,
Can you please provide data in relation to the numbers of temporary medical exemptions that have been applied for, and the numbbers subsaquently granted under the process oulined in the link on your website listed below.
Please provide the data in a informative way similar to the data that the Ministry supplies in relation to COVID-19 vaccination. It would be useful to see the data split by the following:
- DHB
- Time series (by day, or by week)
- Ethnicity
- Age
- Criteria for Temporary COVID-19 Vaccine Medical Exemption (as outlined in the Clinical Guidance)
Although this request is only for data up to present, I expect there will be public interest in this topic, and if the Ministry intends to publish this data on an ongoing basis I would suggest that renewals of temporary exemptions are also reported on in a seperate but similar manner when they start being recieved.
https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/dise...
Yours faithfully,
B. White
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Hi there,
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Yours faithfully,
B. White
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From: B. White <[FOI #18148 email]>
Sent: Wednesday, 9 February 2022 13:25
To: OIA Requests <[email address]>
Subject: Re: Official Information request - Temporary medical exemption
statistics
Hi there,
With only 3.5 working days left on the standard timeframe for this
request - can you please confirm that you are working on it and expect to
respond within the normal timeframes?
Please note - I have checked in with the team who run FYI, and they have
confirmed that this request was successfully delivered to the MoH server
on 11 Jan, and accepted for delivery.
Yours faithfully,
B. White
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Yours sincerely,
B. White
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From: B. White <[FOI #18148 email]>
Sent: Wednesday, 16 February 2022 15:41
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Can you please provide details on when I should expect the information to
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Yours sincerely,
B. White
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Hi all,
I have used a PDF to Excel converter to get the data in an accessable format.
I have run some basic add accross and add down checks and corrected a couple of errors introduced by the software - but I would reccomend checking against the PDF if anything looks out.
Google docs link below.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...
Link to this