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11 December 2018
Thai Quoc Khanh
Email: [FYI request #9070 email] Dear Thai Quoc Khanh
RE Official Information Act request CDHB 9975
We refer to 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 buy the services from other DHBs, could you please provide the
sum of annual payments for other DHBs over the period from 2013 to 2017?
The table below outline total annual payment made to other DHBs over the period from 2013 to
2017
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
$'000's
$'000's
$'000's
$'000's
$'000's
Total Payments to Other DHBs
34,203
35,310
38,230
39,838
37,260
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?
There are two distinct differences between the two figures reported above. Firstly, the
Average
Year to Date Consolidated Accrued FTE includes all staff groupings within the DHB, whereas the
Medical and Nursing FTE is limited to both the Medical Personnel and Nursing Personnel only.
Secondly, the
Average Year to Date Consolidated Accrued FTE is a financial reporting measure
whereas the
Medical and Nursing FTE is a contracted FTE measure. Accrued FTE varies
depending upon a number of factors, including paid leave earned (the most common being
annual leave), paid leave taken, leave without pay, etc. Contracted FTE is a measure of the hours
that an employee is contracted to work, and ignores variations caused by leave, etc. A practical
guide to FTE calculations can be found on the web
at https://tas.health.nz/assets/SWS/HWIP/A-
practical-guide-to-FTE-reporting-2015.pdf;
I trust that this satisfies your interest in this matter.
Please note that this response, or an edited version of this response, may be published on the
Canterbury DHB website after your receipt of this response.
Yours sincerely
Carolyn Gullery
Executive Director
Planning, Funding & Decision Support