Dear Privacy Commissioner,
I refer to a "news" communication dated 15 October 2021 from the Waikato DHB called Staff Advisory - Order Requiring Healthcare Workers to be Vaccinated Against
COVID-19
This "news" says:

The DHB received permission from the Ministry of Health to access the Covid Immunisation Register for those staff where we did not have a vaccination status. It has been agreed it is essential for us to understand our workforce’s vaccination status so we can rapidly and safely deploy staff to where they are needed most for our public health response to this outbreak and to manage the risk of a wider community outbreak. This access was granted after the Ministry of Health consulted the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, which confirmed the Ministry could apply Rule 11(2)(d) of the Health Information Privacy Code to allow disclosure of this private health information to DHBs to support the public health response for this current outbreak.

Would you kindly share the memos, consultation documents, correspondence, emails and any other communications regarding this consultation back in October 2021 to the Privacy Commissioner.

Yours faithfully,

Erika Whittome