16 August 2017
Mr Antony Andrews
E‐mail: fyi‐request‐6237‐[email address]
Dear Mr Andrews
Official Information Act Request
I write in response to your Official Information Act Request dated 19 July 2017. You requested the
following information:
Count of monthly adverse events from July 2006 to June 2016 for Counties Manukau District
Health Board. Please note that prior to 2012 the term used for adverse events was ‘serious and
sentinel events’.
CM Health has not captured the information you have requested in a central repository for the full
time period you have requested. We have been able to provide a monthly count of events from
July 2009.
Please note:
CM Health, in conjunction with the Health Quality and Safety Commission (HQSC), releases an
annual serious adverse event report which is available on our website. Please refer to this
information for official, validated information on serious adverse events that have occurred at
CM
Health.
http://www.countiesmanukau.health.nz/about‐us/performance‐and‐
planning/serious‐adverse‐events/
The information provided is captured and recorded manually in a spreadsheet. Over the years
the spreadsheet has changed, and accordingly the nature of the information captured has
varied somewhat.
Please note the data we have provided relates to all serious adverse events.
The information provided in the attached table has not been verified. To do this, a manual
review of each event would need to be undertaken and would involve a check of varying
systems and records, whether the event was notified to the HQSC, the outcome of each case,
and confirmed against the minutes of the Serious and Sentinel Events Committee meetings.
We estimate this exercise to take approximately 10‐15 minutes per incident, which would
equate to around 70 hours.
CM Health has a policy of allowing the first five hours of staff time expended on responding to
an OIA request to be provided free of charge. Thereafter, costs accumulate at a rate of $38
per half hour or part thereof. Please advise whether you wish to proceed on this basis.
Counties Manukau District Health Board
19 Lambie Drive, Manukau, Auckland 2104 | Private Bag 94052, Manukau, Auckland 2241
T: 09 276 0000 | cmdhb.org.nz
The information we are able to provide is presented in an appended table.
If you are not satisfied with this response you are entitled to seek a review of the response by the
Ombudsman under section 28(3) of the Official Information Act.
Yours sincerely
Dr Gloria Johnson
Acting Chief Executive
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2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
January
4
6
2
5
4
5
2
February
8
7
2
3
5
9
3
March
6
5
2
4
6
6
9
8
April
4
5
2
2
3
4
5
7
May
10
4
2
1
3
8
4
1
June
7
4
3
3
2
7
2
5
July
3
7
4
8
2
7
4
3
2
August
4
12
4
10
6
4
3
6
3
September
5
6
1
2
10
7
4
5
8
October
10
3
4
6
3
6
6
1
7
November
4
2
3
2
4
6
3
5
1
December
2
2
2
2
7
1
4
2
5
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