Kia ora   

  

Thank you for your email to the Minister of Health and Minister for
Pacific Peoples, Hon Dr Shane Reti.    

  

We will endeavour to respond to your email as soon as possible. However,
due to the high volume of emails, we may not be able to provide you with
an individualised response. Please note:  

* If you are an Whangârei constituent contacting the Minister about an
issue related to his electorate, your email will be passed to his
electorate office for consideration.  
* Invitations and requests to meet with the Minister will be considered
and his office will be in touch with you in due course.  
* Requests for official information will be managed in accordance with
provisions of the Official Information Act 1982, which may include a
transfer to a more relevant Minister or agency.  

 

If your email falls outside of the Minister's portfolio responsibilities,
expresses a personal view, or is copied to multiple Members of Parliament,
then your email will be noted and may be transferred to another Minister’s
office, or there may be no further response to you.  

 

If your email relates to matters including:  

* Smokefree 2025, smoking or vaping - these matters fall within the
portfolio responsibilities of Hon Casey Costello, Associate Minister
of Health. You can contact her by emailing
[1][email address].  
* Mental health & ACC - these matters fall within the portfolio
responsibilities of Hon Matt Doocey, Minister for ACC, Minister for
Mental Health, and Associate Minister of Health. You can contact him
by emailing [2][email address].  
* Pharmac, Medsafe or medicines funding - these matters fall within the
portfolio responsibilities of Hon David Seymour, Associate Minister of
Health. You can contact him by emailing
[3][email address].  

 

Further delegations details of Associate Ministers of Health can be found
[4]here.  

Please do not expect a response from this office if your email relates to
the above matters.   

  

If it’s a medical emergency – call 111  

* This can include chest pain or tightness, difficulty breathing,
choking, severe bleeding or bleeding that won’t stop, sudden weakness
or difficulty talking, fainting or unconsciousness.  

  

Vaccination advice  

* Call the Vaccination Healthline for information about COVID-19, flu,
MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella), Boostrix (whooping cough) on 0800
28 29 26 8AM – 6PM Monday to Friday.  
* You can also visit: [5]bookmyvaccine.health.nz/.  

  

Other health support and services  

* Healthline – call free on 0800 611 116   

* if you’re concerned or not sure about something  
* if you can’t access a GP or you don’t have one  
* for advice about what’s happening for you and next steps  
* if you want advice on finding services near visit [6]Healthpoint.
 

* Healthcare services and support [7]available in New Zealand.  
* Contact your doctor or clinician.  
* Need to talk? Free call or text 1737 any time for support from a
trained counsellor.   
* Call the COVID-19 Healthline on 0800 358 5453.  
* For disability health and wellbeing support:  

* visit the Whaikaha [8]website  
* with any general health concerns, including managing COVID-19,
call the Disability Helpline on 0800 11 12 13 or text 8988.  

Ngâ mihi

 

Office of Hon Dr Shane Reti 

Minister of Health 
 
Minister for Pacific Peoples 
Email: [email address] 

Private Bag 18041, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6160, New Zealand 

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Kia Ora Rodney

 

Thank you for your request for official information under the Official
Information Act 1982 (the Act) to the Office of Hon Dr Shane Reti. You
requested:

 

“The government have announced an incremental increase in ambulance
funding last week:

- Outline what assessments the Government, Ministry, Te Whatu Ora or
Ambulance Services have provided about their assessed resource needs for
the next and subsequent years.

- Differentiate between what is an indexed uplift and what is a funded
uplift in activity- how have ambulance services been funded for both the
inflationary pressures over recent years and how have they been funded for
increased activity?

- Outline the government's approach to addressing any long-term shortfall
in ambulance funding.

- Outline how the government funds capital expenditure for ambulance
services, how it indexes this and supports funding and planning of
ambulance stations, ambulance vehicles and essential medical equipment.

- Address how the government will fund the increased activity incurred
through the mental health withdrawal from police and transfer of that
workload to ambulance services, and what has been put in place to ensure
consumers and ambulance workers are kept safe.

- Outline whether it's usual practice for the government to require
non-governmental organisations to fundraise for incomplete funding of
essential services, and please outline what the thinking is by requiring
ambulance organisations to either fundraise or charge the public for
ambulance services.

- Outline any reviews, reports or advice the government has received
contributing to its decision to continue to require the public to pay for
ambulance services.

- Outline any reviews, reports or advice the government has received in
terms of indexing ambulance services against the impacts of the relative
undersupply of primary care in certain regions throughout the country.”

 

The reference number for your request is: SROIA-351

As required under the Official Information Act 1982, the Office will
endeavour to respond to your request no later than 20 working days after
the day your request was received. You can expect a response by 26
November 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

 

 

Office of Hon Dr Shane Reti

Minister of Health

Minister for Pacific Peoples
Email: [2][email address]

Private Bag 18041, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6160, New Zealand

 

 

 

 

 

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