Kia ora Chris,

  

Thank you for your request for official information. The reference number
for your request is: H2024055630

  

As required under the Official Information Act 1982, The Ministry of
Health will endeavour to respond to your request no later than 20 working
days after the day your request was received. If you'd like to calculate
the timeframe, you can use the Ombudsman's online calculator
here: [1]http://www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/  

  

If you have any queries, please feel free to contact the OIA Services Team
on [2][email address]. If any additional factors come to light which
are relevant to your request, please do not hesitate to contact us so that
these can be taken into account.  

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: [3][email address] or by calling 0800
802 602.

 

Ngā mihi 

 

OIA Services Team 

[4]Ministry of Health information releases 

 

 

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Kia ora,
Thank you for your requests for official information received on 9
November 2024, requesting:
“Request 1
1) Please provide the latest Evidence Briefs created by the Ministry’s
Evidence, Research and Innovation Directorate on community water
fluoridation and Long COVID-19.
2) If work on the Evidence Briefs requested in (1) is currently underway
and cannot be released then please provide the correspondence that
initiated the work - including the terms of reference, any instructions on
objectives and scope etc, and any resulting communication (eg clarifying
questions, meeting minutes and instructions for delegated work packages).
Please also provide the planned completion date.
3) Please identify which group within the MoH is "undertaking the Bill of
Rights analysis of the directions to ensure that section 11 of the New
Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 is considered".  Please provide the
correspondence that initiated the work - including the terms of reference,
any instructions on objectives and scope etc, and any resulting
communication (eg clarifying questions, meeting minutes and instructions
for delegated work packages). Please also provide the planned completion
date.
4) Please provide any evidence that the Evidence Briefs by Ministry’s
Evidence, Research and Innovation Directorate on Community fluoridation
and the review regarding the Bill of Rights are coordinated. This could
for example be an email trail confirming that the two teams are
communicating, or possibly a revised Evidence Brief being provided to the
Bill of Rights review.  There may be other ways to provide this evidence -
eg a project plan showing that the draft outcomes of both work streams
will be considered together before either complete.
Request 2
In OIA H2024053399 it was stated that "The Ministry’s Evidence, Research
and Innovation Directorate was established in July 2022."
Please provide a list of all the Evidence Briefs created, delivered or
underway by the Evidence Research and Innovation Directorate since it was
established in July 2022.
Against each Evidence Brief please indicate:
- Status (eg completed, underway)
- Who requested it (eg Minister, GM of another Directorate)
- A short description of the problem or question being addressed by the
work (which for example could be extracted from the intro or executive
summary).
If it is easier from an OIA workload perspective, I am happy to receive
all the completed Evidence Briefs, and a separate list of those underway
with a short description."
The Ministry of Health has decided to extend the period of time available
to respond to your request under section 15A of the Official Information
Act 1982 (the Act) as consultations necessary to make a decision on the
request are such that a proper response to the request cannot reasonably
be made within the original time limit.
You can now expect a response to your request on, or before, 24 January
2024.
You have the right, under section 28 of the Act, to ask the Ombudsman to
review my decision to extend the time available to respond to your
request.
Ngâ mihi  

OIA Services Team

Manatû Hauora | Ministry of Health

M[1]inistry of Health information releases 

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