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Kia ora Chris,
 
Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the
Act) for:
 

"Can you please provide in a machine readable CSV/Excel file, a count of
the number of people vaccinated against COVID19 funded by the government
of NZ and those who subsequently died of any cause - as measured by MoH
record level patient or payment databases.
OIA1a) This OIA asks for repeat run of Ticket Reference RT-670 - with a
revised date range and one age group boundary change - so that updated
numbers can be made available to the public. My understanding is that this
comes from the Aotearoa Immunisation Register (AIR).

OIA1b) For reference, a definition of the columns required are described
below.  
The following breakdown of each column is required:
Col1) Month of Death - from the first vaccination until the end of Sept
2024 [NOTE new date range]
Col2) Age Band of Patient – 0-20 inclusive, 21-40 inclusive, 41-60
inclusive, 61-80 inclusive, 81-99 inclusive, 100+ .  [NOTE the small
change to the 81-99, and 100+ categories]
Col3) Last COVID-19 dose number (eg 0, 1=1st, 2=2nd, 3=1st booster, 4=2nd
booster etc) using a coding scheme used within the MoH
Col4) Days between last vaccination and death – N/A where Last COVID-19
dose number is 0, else each of the following categories should be
calculated from the date of the patients’s most recent vaccine: <30 days
inclusive, 31 days-90 days inclusive, 91-180 days, 181 days to 365 days,
366 days to 730 days inclusive, 731 to 1095 days inclusive, over 1096 days
inclusive.
Col5) Count of people matching (when Grouping on) the above 4 columns This
OIA does not seek any personal or commercial information about patients or
suppliers. Where a cell count is less than 5 please mark as “S”. Where a
cell count is truely zero please mark this as suich in the dataset.

OIA2) For reconciliation and benchmarking purposes, please provide a
simple count of the number of COVID vaccination records in the Aotearoa
Immunisation Register (AIR)  system as at the end of Sept 2024.

A Reasonable OIA with Precedent
This OIA should be possible by using simple queries on the entire datasets
of COVID Vax Pay per Dose and National Minimum Dataset of Hospital data -
matched using the NHI number.
This OIA does not ask for the creation of any information, just a rerun of
a previous request which aggregates a data set the MoH already collects as
a normal course of its business.
I am a NZ citizen, resident and taxpayer and am entitled to use the OIA."
 

Pursuant to section 15(1)(a) of the Act, Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora,
is writing to advise you that a decision has been made on your request;
however, it will take us some more time to prepare the information for
release. 
 
We apologise for the delay, and endeavour to send you the information by
16 December 2024. 
 
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: [1][email address] or by calling 0800
802 602. 

 

 Ngâ mihi

 

Obaid (He/him)

Ministerial Advisor 
Government Services
Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora

TeWhatuOra.govt.nz

 

 

 

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Kia ora Chris, 
 
Thank you for your request for information. Please find attached our
response to your request.
 
If you have any questions, please get in touch at
[1][email address].
 
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complaint to the Ombudsman. Information about how to do this is available
at [2]www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or by phoning 0800 802 602.
 
 

Ngā mihi

 

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Ministerial Advisor 
Government Services
Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora

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