133 Molesworth Street
PO Box 5013
Wellington 6140
New Zealand
T+64 4 496 2000
15 March 2023
Sam Hadley-Jones
By email:
[FYI request #22019 email]
Ref:
H2023021392
Tēnā koe Sam
Transfer of your request for official information Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) to Manatū Hauora
(the Ministry of Health) on 7 March 2023. You requested:
“The total number of GP and nurse practitioner attended consultations, per year for 10
years, per PHO, per practice.
The total number enrolled, per year for 10 years, per PHO, per practice.
The public funding allocated to primary care, per year for 10 years, per PHO.
The public funding allocated to primary care of exclusive groups, per year for 10 years,
per PHO.
The PHO reported maximum booking times, per year for 10 years.”
The requested information is more closely connected to the functions of Te Whatu Ora – Health
New Zealand. For this reason, I have decided to transfer your request to Te Whatu Ora under
section 14(b)(ii) of the Act. You can expect a response from their agency in due course.
Under section 28(3) of the Act, you have the right to ask the Ombudsman to review any
decisions made under this request. The Ombudsman may be contacted by email at:
[email address] or by calling 0800 802 602.
Nāku noa, na
Jan Torres
Acting Manager, OIA Services
Government and Executive Services | Te Pou Whakatere Kāwanatanga
COPY OF OIA REQUEST
From: Sam Hadley-Jones
<[FYI request #22019 email]> Sent: Tuesday, 7 March 2023 10:48
To: OIA Requests
<[email address]> Subject: Official Information request - Data on patients enrolled at all GP practices, number of
visits and booking delays.
Dear Ministry of Health,
Wait times to see my GP are untenable. I've moved practice twice to reduce booking wait times
but only found the situation worse. One practice was 24,000 enrolled patients seen between 4
GPs, at most. I tried to enroll at my local practice but they have 1 GP seeing 6000 patients. If
the GP was seeing 3 patients an hour, full time (highly unlikely), that equates to an average of 1
patient visit per year.
I think that the public would be interested to know how our general practice service is
performing, if it is getting better or worse and where the problems are.
I would like to see the following dataset:
The total number of GP and nurse practitioner attended consultations, per year for 10 years, per
PHO, per practice.
The total number enrolled, per year for 10 years, per PHO, per practice.
The public funding allocated to primary care, per year for 10 years, per PHO.
The public funding allocated to primary care of exclusive groups, per year for 10 years, per
PHO.
The PHO reported maximum booking times, per year for 10 years.
Yours faithfully,
Sam Hadley-Jones.
Shannon.
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