29 January 2025
Nikita Mahendra
[FYI request #29395 email] Tēnā koe Nikita
Your request for official information, reference: HNZ00073871
Thank you for your email on 30 November 2024, transferred to Health New Zealand | Te Whatu
Ora from the Ministry of Health on 11 December 2024 for the following under the Official
Information Act 1982 (the Act):
I am writing to
A. seek stats on unit dose dispensing of the following drugs from 2019 to date as per year
stats.
1. Rivaroxaban
2. Amiodarone
3. Flecanide
4. Dabigatrin
B. The population age group using this drugs since 2019 to date as per year.
Response
Please refer to attached
HNZ00073871 Appendix One, called
“Count of publicly funded
dispensings and initial dispensings of Amiodarone hydrochloride, Dabigatran, Flecainide acetate
and Rivaroxaban by formulation, age group and calendar year between 1 January 2019 - 31
August 2024.
Please also note, this is provisional data. This is data has not undergone the validation process
that we use for published data. We recommend that caveats are consistently used, underscoring
that the data is provisional, not validated through a formal validation process, and could be subject
to change.
You can also access some information in our Pharmaceutical Collection Data tool, and we have
provided the links below for your information. Pease note though that the Pharmaceutical
Collection is a live dataset, whilst the Pharmaceutical Data Web Tool is a static extract. Comparing
the two extracts may result in different figure.
• Background information on the tool
Pharmaceutical Collection – Health New Zealand | Te
Whatu Ora
• Pharmaceutical Collection Data tool
tewhatuora.shinyapps.io/pharmaceutical-data-web-
tool/.
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[email address].
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Ombudsman. Information about how to do this is available at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or
by phoning 0800 802 602.
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release a copy of this response on our website. All requester data, including your name and
contact details, will be removed prior to release.
Nāku iti noa, nā
Stuart Bloomfield
Interim Director Data and Analytics
Planning, Funding and Outcomes
TeWhatuOra.govt.nz
Health NZ, PO Box 793,
Wellington 6140, New Zealand