9 November 2018
Thai Quoc Khanh
[email address]
Ref: H201806936
Dear Thai
Thank you for your enquiry of 13 October 2018 to the Ministry of Health and the
subsequent partial transfer of your request which was notified to you 19 October
2018.
The following questions from your enquiry have been transferred to MidCentral DHB
for response, being:
I have been searching for the number of bed at DHB and found that the
statistics on bed count by DHB from 20013 to 2015 are available. However, it
seems that the bed count at each DHB in 2016 and 2017 have not been
updated.
Could you please kindly provide me the number of available beds as well as
occupancy rate at each DHB in 2016 and 2017.
The following table is based upon the information currently available for MidCentral
DHB bed statistics
Year
Total Occupied
Total Available
Occupancy
Bed Days
Bed Days
Rate
2016
108,142
125,260
86.3%
2017
111,476
127,254
87.6%
Please note that this response, or an edited version of this response, may be
published on the MidCentral DHB website ten working days after your receipt of this
response.
Yours sincerely
Neil Wanden
General Manager, Finance & Corporate Services
Finance & Corporate Services
MidCentalDHB, PO Box 2056, Palmerston North Central, 4440.