Chief Executive’s Office
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[Auckland District Health Board request email]
09 February 2022
Paul Blackham
By email: [FYI request #18304 email]
Dear Paul
Re:
Official Information Act request – Presentation and Admission for Heart Disease - ADHB Ref:
20220110-1146
I refer to your Official Information Act request dated 25 January 2022 requesting the fol owing information:
I am seeking the number of people that have visited any/al hospitals and doctor's surgeries
within the ADHB for any/al heart related issues, (including but not limited to pericarditis,
myocarditis, heart attacks and strokes). The data requested is for the 11 month period from
February 2021 until December 2021 inclusive, displayed in month by month format, and
compared to the monthly data for the previous three years.
Response
We do not col ect the primary care data you have requested and Auckland DHB does not hold this
information. This part of your request is therefore refused on the basis that the documents asserted to
contain the information requested do not exist and, despite reasonable efforts to locate them, cannot be
found or are not held by this agency. We do so citing s18(e) of the Official Information Act.
The table below is the combined inpatient and outpatient events. Please note these inpatient events are
based on a coded heart or stroke related patient event. To have a coded diagnosis the patient must have a
stay of greater than three hours and have been discharged as coding is completed after the patient is
discharged.
The outpatient events are based on the specialty the patient was seen under as outpatient events are not
coded. “Heart related” specialties are included with the exception of strokes. It is not possible to identify
outpatient events relating to stroke as these patients may be seen by a variety of specialties and these
specialties do not exclusively treat stroke patients.
Table 1. Heart Related Presentations
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
2018 4,215 4,961 4,205 5,074 4,348 4,600 4,892 4,344 5,012 5,336 4,110
2019 4,418 5,033 4,548 5,298 4,305 5,085 4,517 4,397 4,610 4,771 4,120
2020 4,337 4,814 3,345 4,549 5,268 5,405 4,863 5,544 5,198 5,128 4,597
2021 4,568 5,860 4,921 5,556 5,402 5,405 4,693 4,412 4,585 5,212 4,515
Yours sincerely,
Ailsa Claire, OBE
Chief Executive
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