Level 2, H Block
The Princess Margaret Hospital
Telephone: 0064 3 364 4160
Cashmere Road
Fax: 0064 3 364 4101
CHRISTCHURCH
[email address]
11 June 2015
Mr Alex Harris
Email:
[FYI request #2672 email];
OFFICIAL INFORMATION ACT (OIA) REQUEST CDHB/G 9081a
We refer to your request dated 30 April 2015 under the Official Information Act (1982) requesting the
following information relating to Canterbury District Health Board:
Copies of all staff hospitality/conflict of interest forms submitted during 2014.
Staff employed by Canterbury DHB (CDHB) are expected to maintain appropriate professional standards
and relationships with other services and providers at all times. The CDHB expects its clinical staff to act
ethically and appropriately in prescribing medications as part of the professional standards required
under their registration and according to the practitioner’s competency requirements. This requires the
identification and declaration of any actual or potential conflict of interest that may occur in their day to
day business activities or contact.
Please see the CDHB policy on staff accepting gifts and hospitality (attached as
appendix one). This
policy applies to all circumstances where individuals have received gifts in any form or nature. This
entails staff to declare gifts and hospitality (declaration from attached as
appendix two). All such staff
declarations are held at a Head of Department/Service Manager level and this information is not
currently held in a central repository.
The CDHB is therefore declining to provide an answer on the number of staff who have accepted gifts
under Section 18(f) of the OIA on the basis that: “… the information requested cannot be made
available without substantial collation or research.” In the event that you disagree with our decision
you may, under section 28(3) of the Act, seek an investigation and review of our decision from the
Ombudsman.
Yours sincerely
Greg Hamilton
for Carolyn Gullery
General Manager
Planning, Funding & Decision Support