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From:        "Bruce Hamilton"
<[FOI #13604 email]>
To:        "OIA/LGOIMA requests at Ministry of Health" <[Ministry of Health request email]>
Date:        26/08/2020 09:34 pm
Subject:        Official Information request - Intentional self-harm
hospitalisations in New Zealand

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Dear Ministry of Health,

I am researching a business plan to assist New Zealanders with mental
health issues and need some important figures please:

Can you please provide the overall monthly figures from August 2019 till
August 2020 (by month) on Intentional self-harm hospitalisations in New
Zealand that were reported but did not end in mortality. Which location
these reports occurred in and a breakdown or graph of the ethnicity and
age of the above requests. In a numbers or excel document / including
graphs..

Can you also please add a columns to show the overall figures from August
2019 till August 2020 (By month) on Intentional self-harm hospitalisations
in New Zealand that were fatal. Which location these reports occurred in
and a breakdown or graph of the ethnicity and age of the above requests.

Can you advise how these were reported and to what department eg,
Helpline, GP in a separate column.

Can you provide In the same sheet / graph additional overall figures on
reporting of anxiety and depression from August 2019 till August 2020
(Month by month). Including a breakdown or graph of the ethnicity and age.
Please advise how these were reported and to what department eg, Helpline,
GP in a separate column.

Lastly please provide overall figures on the same sheet / graph also of
those who were prescribed medication to assist with their anxiety and
depression from August 2019 till August 2020 (By month). Including a
breakdown or graph of the ethnicity and age. Including the brand of the
prescribed medication.

If any of these figures are unavailable for the dates specified please
provide the most up-to-date figures you have.

Many thanks for your assistance.

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Hi Brian

 

Thank you for your request.  It takes a couple of months for the data we
collect to all be reported so I’ve amended the time period in what I’m
supplying to July 2019-June 2020.   That’s a complete financial year and
ensures that any of the changes implemented on July 1 (in the hospital
data) don’t impact your data. 

 

I’ve attached a spreadsheet which have the number of publicly funded
hospital discharges with any reported external cause code of intentional
self-harm in 2019/20 broken down by whether the patient was alive at
discharge, age and ethnicity.  I’d note that people hospitalised multiple
times (transfers, readmissions, multiple incidents) are counted each time.

 

I’ve also attached a spreadsheet with antidepressant and anxiolytic
scripts (a script is a first dispensing of a prescription for a given
chemical) by ethnicity and age.  There are some dispensings where the age
is recorded in the 0-4 age group.  I suspect that this is due to parents
who have their child with them when they get there prescription, and the
GP puts the wrong NHI number down. 

With pharmaceutical dispensings this year, when the lockdown was announced
there is a large spike in dispensings as patients made sure they had
enough of their regular medications to last through that period.  This
causes a large increase in dispensings in March.  Then April has less as
most of the people who normally would have got a new prescription in April
(as most prescriptions last a maximum of 3 months) had already got them so
there’s less dispensings this month.

 

We don’t hold much information on anxiety and depression.  We do have
hospitalisation data, and we have some mental health contact data but most
mental health services don’t report diagnosis information to us.

 

I hope this helps.  Please contact me if you have any questions.

Cheers

 

 

Chris Lewis

Information Analyst

Analytical Services, Ministry of Health

phone: +64-4-816-2869

fax: +64-4-816-2898

e-mail: [email address]

 

 

 

 

 

From: Laura Cleary <[email address]>
Sent: Thursday, 27 August 2020 8:36 am
To: Chris Lewis <[email address]>
Cc: Data-Enquiries <[email address]>
Subject: Intentional self-harm hospitalisations in New Zealand

 

Hi Chris

 

Are you please able to provide information for this request below? The OIA
team have agreed to treat this as a data request, rather than an OIA.

 

The requestors name is Brian Hamilton.

 

Apparently, because Brian submitted his request through some online
portal, the following is how we can contact him:
[1][FOI #13604 email]

 

Thanks

Laura

 

Dear Ministry of Health,

I am researching a business plan to assist New Zealanders with mental
health issues and need some important figures please:

Can you please provide the overall monthly figures from August 2019 till
August 2020 (by month) on Intentional self-harm hospitalisations in New
Zealand that were reported but did not end in mortality. Which location
these reports occurred in and a breakdown or graph of the ethnicity and
age of the above requests. In a numbers or excel document / including
graphs..

Can you also please add a columns to show the overall figures from August
2019 till August 2020 (By month) on Intentional self-harm hospitalisations
in New Zealand that were fatal. Which location these reports occurred in
and a breakdown or graph of the ethnicity and age of the above requests.

Can you advise how these were reported and to what department eg,
Helpline, GP in a separate column.

Can you provide In the same sheet / graph additional overall figures on
reporting of anxiety and depression from August 2019 till August 2020
(Month by month). Including a breakdown or graph of the ethnicity and age.
Please advise how these were reported and to what department eg, Helpline,
GP in a separate column.

Lastly please provide overall figures on the same sheet / graph also of
those who were prescribed medication to assist with their anxiety and
depression from August 2019 till August 2020 (By month). Including a
breakdown or graph of the ethnicity and age. Including the brand of the
prescribed medication.

If any of these figures are unavailable for the dates specified please
provide the most up-to-date figures you have.

Many thanks for your assistance.

[2]Inactive hide details for "Laura Cleary" ---27/08/2020 08:11:52
am---Morning Alisha. We would like to treat this as a data requ"Laura
Cleary" ---27/08/2020 08:11:52 am---Morning Alisha. We would like to treat
this as a data request please.

From: "Laura Cleary" <[3][email address]>
To: "OIA Requests/MOH" <[4][email address]>
Date: 27/08/2020 08:11 am
Subject: RE: Official Information request - Intentional self-harm
hospitalisations in New Zealand

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Morning Alisha.
 
We would like to treat this as a data request please.
 
Can you please send me the text of the original request, plus the
requestor’s contact details?
 
Thanks
Laura
 
From: Alisha Schmidt <[5][email address]> On Behalf Of OIA
Requests
Sent: Thursday, 27 August 2020 8:03 am
To: Laura Cleary <[6][email address]>
Cc: OIA Requests/MOH <[7][email address]>
Subject: Fw: Official Information request - Intentional self-harm
hospitalisations in New Zealand
 

Hi Laura
Just wanted to check if you wanted the below treated as a data request?
Thanks
Alisha
OIA Services
Government Services
Office of the Director-General
Ministry of Health
E: [8][email address]

[9]cid:1__=[email address]

----- Forwarded by Alisha Schmidt/MOH on 27/08/2020 08:02 am -----
From: "Bruce Hamilton"
<[10][FOI #13604 email]>
To: "OIA/LGOIMA requests at Ministry of Health" <[11][Ministry of Health request email]>
Date: 26/08/2020 09:34 pm
Subject: Official Information request - Intentional self-harm
hospitalisations in New Zealand

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Dear Ministry of Health,

I am researching a business plan to assist New Zealanders with mental
health issues and need some important figures please:

Can you please provide the overall monthly figures from August 2019 till
August 2020 (by month) on Intentional self-harm hospitalisations in New
Zealand that were reported but did not end in mortality. Which location
these reports occurred in and a breakdown or graph of the ethnicity and
age of the above requests. In a numbers or excel document / including
graphs..

Can you also please add a columns to show the overall figures from August
2019 till August 2020 (By month) on Intentional self-harm hospitalisations
in New Zealand that were fatal. Which location these reports occurred in
and a breakdown or graph of the ethnicity and age of the above requests.

Can you advise how these were reported and to what department eg,
Helpline, GP in a separate column.

Can you provide In the same sheet / graph additional overall figures on
reporting of anxiety and depression from August 2019 till August 2020
(Month by month). Including a breakdown or graph of the ethnicity and age.
Please advise how these were reported and to what department eg, Helpline,
GP in a separate column.

Lastly please provide overall figures on the same sheet / graph also of
those who were prescribed medication to assist with their anxiety and
depression from August 2019 till August 2020 (By month). Including a
breakdown or graph of the ethnicity and age. Including the brand of the
prescribed medication.

If any of these figures are unavailable for the dates specified please
provide the most up-to-date figures you have.

Many thanks for your assistance.

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This is an Official Information request made via the FYI website.

Please use this email address for all replies to this request:
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