Tēnā koe Rodney,

Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the
Act) to the Ministry of Health (Manatū Hauora) on 20 October 2024. 

The Ministry does not hold any information relating to your request;
however, I have been advised that this information is held by Health New
Zealand. For this reason, I have decided to transfer your request to their
agency under section 14(b)(i) of the Act. You can expect a response from
Health New Zealand ([1][email address]) 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: [2][email address] or by calling 0800
802 602.

Ngā mihi

 

OIA Services Team
Manatū Hauora | Ministry of Health
[3]Ministry of Health information releases 

 

 

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Tēnā koe, 

 

Thank you for contacting Health NZ, Te Whatu Ora. This is an automatic
reply to confirm that we have received your email.  Depending on the
nature of your request you may not receive a response for up to 20 working
days.  We will try to respond to your query as quickly as possible.

 

 

Ngā mihi

 

Health NZ, Te Whatu Ora.

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Kia ora Rodney

Thank you for your request for official information, received on 22
October 2024 for: 

 Recently the government outlined five key performance indicators of the
health system, and included national data over the past decade
   or so. This was created from data obtained from the national admitted
and non-admitted datasets, amongst others, which has the region
   and site in them. Please provide region and hospital-based data for
these five KPIs over the same period

In order to provide you with the information requested, could you please
clarify the information you are seeking. It is not clear what information
in particular you are after.
 
The Government announcement to which you refer is we believe, the March
2024 Government announcement of health targets for cancer treatment,
childhood immunisation, emergency departments and wait times for first
specialist assessments and elective treatment.
 
Can the first point of clarification be whether or not you are requesting
information about the health targets for cancer treatment, childhood
immunisation, emergency departments and wait times for first specialist
assessments and elective treatment?
 
Further information in what these targets are can be found on this
Ministry of Health webpage:
[1]https://www.health.govt.nz/statistics-re...
  and in the Health New Zealand Health targets fact sheet that accompanies
this email. See Attachment 1. HNZ00069420 Health Target Performance 2014
to 2024.  
 
In order to assess whether we can provide you with the information
requested, could you please refine the timeframe you are asking us to
consider? Ten years or so is not specific enough for us to consider
whether we can attempt to collate the information in a manner that is
feasible.
 
The data in Attachment 1 shows the performance of the system against the
targets for the 10 years to 2023/24. However, the system is not what you
have asked for. You have asked us to respond with region and
hospital-based data. 
 
Health New Zealand was created from the amalgamation of 20 district health
boards (DHBs). Some of these health boards were aligned into regional
groupings for the delivery of certain services. It is not clear to us
whether you seek information on targets that may still be held by the
Health New Zealand areas that were once DHBs; or whether it is from those
that were once in regional groupings.
 
We are therefore also asking you to consider the scope of this part of
your request:
 
     Please provide region and hospital-based data for these five KPIs
over the same period.
 
As it stands your request your request even once clarified. it is likely
to remain very broad and require substantial manual collation to locate
and prepare all the information within scope of your request. As such,
Health New Zealand may still refuse your request under section 18(f) of
the Act. Click or tap here to enter text.
We look forward to receiving your response. 
 

Ngā mihi, 

Mark Fenwick
Government Services
[2][email address]    

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora
 

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