1 March 2024
Simon Tegg
Via email:
fyi‐request‐25632‐[email address]
Tēnā koe Simon
Request for information: GnRH agonist statistics
Thank you for your request dated 5 February 2024 under the Official Information Act 1982
(OIA) for information relating to GnRH agonists. You requested:
In response to a previous OIA request dated 28th August 2023 Pharmac supplied
statistics on the number of patients (PREVALENCE) dispensed of GnRH agonists
broken down by
YEAR: 2006 2022, CALENDAR year.
AGE: 017 by year, supplemented by the 1217 age category.
SEX: M, F
Thankyou for your timely response. I make the same request however this time
updated to be the years: 2006 2023.
IN ADDITION I request INCIDENCE data broken down by the same year, age, and
sex categories. To clarify by "incidence" I mean the number of patients who start on
GnRH agonist treatment the age and sex categories in a calendar year who were not
dispensed GnRH agonist the previous calendar year.
Attached you wil find:
The prescribing prevalence statistics by year and gender (female, male), ages 017
The prescribing prevalence statistics by year and gender (female, male), ages 1217
The prescribing incidence statistics by year and gender (female, male), ages 017
The prescribing incidence statistics by year and gender (female, male),ages 1217
You wil find the information you requested in the excel spreadsheet attached.
Please note that the NHI does not capture sex (‘assigned at birth’ or ‘natal sex’), instead it
only captures gender (‘gender identity’, relates to an individual’s experience of their own
gender). This can be updated by an individual by asking their regular health professional to
update the National Health Index (“NHI”) with this information.
If you would like more information on this please contact Te Whatu Ora as they are
responsible for
NHI records.
Where 6 or fewer people are counted, we have changed the number to "≤6" as we believe
this is necessary to protect the privacy of these people (section 9(2)(a) of the OIA).
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In making our decision, we have considered the public interest considerations in section 9(1) of
the Act. No public interest has been identified that would be sufficient to override the reasons
for withholding that information.
Please note, you have the right to make a complaint to the Ombudsman about our response
to your OIA, under section 28(3) of the OIA. Details of
how to make a complaint are on the
Ombudsman’s website.
To make information more freely available, we publish selected OIA responses (excluding
personal details) on our website. Please get in touch with us if you have any questions about
this.
Nāku noa, nā
Oliver Whitehead
Team Leader, Government Services
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