Planning and Funding
P O Box 1600,
Telephone: 0064 3 364 4130
CHRISTCHURCH
Fax: 0064 3 364 4165
[email address]
2 June 2020
Ms Amy Van Wey Lovatt
Email: [FYI request #12976 email]
Dear Ms Van Wey Lovatt
RE Official information request CDHB 10325 and WCDHB 9433
We are writing to acknowledge your email dated 30 May 2020 requesting the following information under the
Official Information Act from Canterbury DHB and West Coast DHB re publication of all DHB Policies, Protocols
and Best Practice Documents. Specifically:
Request 1:
Thus, I respectfully request that your DHB make ALL of your DHB policies, protocols and best practice
documents publicly available.
While on the face of it, my request may seem like a time consuming task; however, this should not be the
case. Currently, DHB policies, protocols and best practice documents are held electronically and are available
on your DHB intranet (employee access only), and in many cases, there are already hyper-links between
policies, protocols and best practice documents. Thus, in order to change the setting to the policies, protocols
and best practice documents from private (intranet and employee access only) to public ought to be
accomplished by a click of a button (or, at most, a line or two of code). Upon completion, I respectfully request
a response with the website address to the DHB policies.
Request 2:
Is your DHB laboratory and radiology departments, or the agencies your DHB has contract out pathology and
radiology services, IANZ accredited?
Request 3:
In the event that your DHB, or the agencies your DHB has contracted out pathology and radiology services, is
IANZ accredited, I respectfully request ALL of the documentation submitted to IANZ for accreditation by your
DHB (or contracted agencies) be made publicly available upon your DHB website (or as a link to your
contracted agencies website). Again, while this may appear to be a daunting task on the face of it, this
information ought to be in electronic form and have been collated prior to submission to IANZ. Thus, again, my
request ought to be accomplished by a click of a button or at most, a few lines of code to link the website to
the appropriate folder on your internal systems.
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.)
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.]
Accordingly, and taking into account the public holiday for Queens Birthday weekend, we will notify you, no
later than 30 June 2020, 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 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.]
