Dear Marie

 

Re  Official Information Act – Annual FDHB Rural Funding process

 

I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your official information request
of 27 February 2019 regarding the Annual FDHB Rural Funding process as
follows:

 

1.                   For each of the past three years ending June 2016,
June 2017 and June 2018 what was the DHBs Rural Adjuster funding component
of the PBFF funding pool?

 

2.                   .       Does the DHB fund and provide rural hospital
services?

If Yes, continue to answer questions 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3. If no, go to
question 3

2.1 Provide the following information about the rural hospitals in your
DHB.

If there are none, please report this.

•     Name or location of hospital

•     List of services the hospital provides

•     The business structure of the hospital eg DHB owned and operated /
NGO or Iwi owned and operated

•     Annual Budget

2.2 How is the annual budget for each of the rural hospitals listed in the
table in 2.1 set?

2.3  How does the DHB apply the annual rural adjuster funding to the
benefit of each of the rural hospitals listed in the table in question
2.1?

 

3.                   Does the DHB fund and provide rural community
services?

If yes, continue to answer questions 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3. If no, go to
question 3

3.1 Provide the following information about the rural community services
in your DHB.

If there are none, please report this.

•     Location of services

•     List of Community services in each location

•     The business structure of the service provider eg DHB owned and
operated / NGO or Iwi owned and operated

•     Annual Budget.

3.2 How is the annual budget for the community services listed in the
table in 3.1 set?

3.3  How does the DHB apply the annual rural adjuster funding to the
benefit of each of the rural community listed in the table in question
3.1?

 

4.                   For each of the past three years, under each of the
components of the Rural Adjuster, quantify the allocation of Rural
Adjuster funding through the DHBs contracts with its contracted providers
or Service Level Alliance Teams.

•     Small hospital
facilities                                               

•     Community services                                      

•     Offshore Islands                                             

•     Travel and Accommodation                                      

•     Inter hospital transfers                                

•     Governance                                      

•     Rural GP/PHO payments

 

5.                   i. Does the DHB include reporting requirements
specific to the use of rural adjuster funding in its contracts with
service providers whose contract includes rural adjuster funding.

ii. If yes, provide a list of the reporting requirements included in the
DHB contracts with these providers.

 

We received your request and will endeavour to respond as soon as possible
and, in any event, no later than 27 March 2019. If we are unable to
respond to your request by then, we will notify you of an extension.

 

Please note Auckland DHB has adopted a model of proactive disclosure where
OIA responses are publically available on our website. We are willing to
consider reasons for not publishing them on the website.

 

Warren Inkster

OIA Manager

 

 

Warren.Inkster OIA Manager

Corporate Business Services

( (09) 630-9943  ext 22365 Cell Phone:021 505934 | *
[1][email address]

Auckland District Health Board | Level 1 |  Building 37 | Auckland City
Hospital | Park Road | Auckland

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Dear Marie

 

I am writing to advise we have made a partial transfer to the Ministry of
Health for question one of your Official Information Act request of 27
February 2019 regarding the Annual FDHB Rural Funding process.

 

The question “For each of the past three years ending June 2016, June 2017
and June 2018 what was the DHBs Rural Adjuster funding component of the
PBFF funding pool?” has been transferred for the attention of Byron Gill,
Team Leader, DHB Funding at the Ministry of Health.

 

The MOH will be in touch with you.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Warren Inkster

OIA Manager

 

Warren Inkster

OIA Manager

Corporate Business Services

( (09) 630-9943  ext 22365 Cell Phone:021 505934 | *
[1][email address]

Auckland District Health Board | Level 1 |  Building 37 | Auckland City
Hospital | Park Road | Auckland

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Dear Marie

Thank you for your request for official information, partially transferred
from all District Health Boards (DHBs), and received by the Ministry of
Health on 6 March 2018.
The Ministry's reference number for your request is: H201901252. If you
need to contact us at any stage about your request, please quote this
reference number in your correspondence.

You requested:

For each of the past three years ending June 2016, June 2017 and June 2018
what was the DHBs Rural Adjuster funding component of the PBFF funding
pool?

As required under the Act we will endeavour to respond to your request no
later than 3 April 2018, being 20 working days after the day your request
was received.  

If we are unable to respond to your request within this time frame, we
will notify you of an extension of that time frame.

If you have any queries related to this request, please do not hesitate to
get in touch.

Yours sincerely,

Jan Torres
Advisor
Ministerial Support Services
[email address]
Ministerial Services  l  Government Services  l  Office of the Director
General

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Dear Marie Daly

Please see the attached response to your request for Official Information.

Kind Regards

Ministerial Services (OIA)
[email address]  

Government Services
Office of the Director-General
Ministry of Health
[1]www.health.govt.nz

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