Planning and Funding
Telephone: 0064 3 364 4130
P O Box 1600,
Fax: 0064 3 364 4165
CHRISTCHURCH
[email address]
20 November 2018
Thai Quoc Khanh
Email: [FYI request #9070 email] Dear Thai Quoc Khanh
RE Official Information Act request CDHB 9975
We are writing to acknowledge your email dated 18 November 2018 requesting the following information under
the Official Information Act from Canterbury DHB.
I have been examining your annual reports but it seems that the payments to others DHBs were not
presented. In case you did by the services from others DHBs, could you please provide the sum of
annual payments for other DHBs over the period from 2013 to 2017?
Besides, according to a report on "District Health Board clinical staffing numbers (March 2017)"
prepared by Ministry of Health, medical and nursing full-time equivalents (FTE) at Canterbury was
4,347. However, according to "SCHEDULE 4: Average Year to Date Consolidated Accrued Full Time
Equivalents (FTEs)", the total FTEs at your DHBs by 30 June 2017 was 7,843. Could you please kindly
explain how these two figures on FTEs are different? Is it the number of "medical and nursing full-time
equivalents (FTE)” is counted on the provider arms only?
We will consider your request against the provisions of the Official Information Act (see below) and advise you
of our decision regarding the release of information within 20 working days (being the statutory timeframe
provided within the Act.)
Accordingly, we will notify you, no later than 17 December 2018, of our decision.
Your request is being handled by Kathleen Smitheram. If you have any queries, please feel free to contact
either myself (details above) or Kathleen.
([email address]) Phone 03 364 4134). Please refer to the OIA number above when phoning or emailing.
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.
Yours sincerely
Wayne Turp
Project Specialist
15 Decisions on requests
(1) Subject to this Act, the department or Minister of the Crown or organisation to whom a request is made in accordance wit
h section 12
or is transferred in accordance wit
h section 14 of this Act o
r section 12 of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act
1987 shall, as soon as reasonably practicable, and in any case not later than 20 working days after the day on which the request is received
by that department or Minister of the Crown or organisation,—
(1)(a) decide whether the request is to be granted and, if it is to be granted, in what manner and for what charge (if any); and
(1)(b) give or post to the person who made the request notice of the decision on the request
[If we are unable to make a decision on your request by the date noted above, we will notify you of an extension of that timeframe.]