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 19 October 2020
 
 
D. Griffiths 
 
 
By email:  [FYI request #13948 email] 
Ref:   
H202007726 
 
 
Dear D Griffiths 
 
Transfer of request for official information  
 
Thank you for your request for information under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) on 
10 October 2020 for: 
 
“ 1) What is the maximum bed occupancy in ICU (intensive care units) across all 
hospitals in New Zealand, in total. 
2) What has been the bed occupancy rate (% of beds occupied in ICUs) by week / 
month (which ever time period data is available) across the same hospitals in question 1 
above, for the period 15th March 2020 to 1st October 2020.” 

 
The Ministry of Health does not hold the information you have requested and believes 
information to answer your full request is held by the district health boards (DHBs) outlined in 
Table 1. As a result, I have decided to transfer your full request to the DHBs outlined in Table 1 
under section 14 of the Act. 
 
Northland DHB is only able to answer the following part of your request: 
 
“2) What has been the bed occupancy rate (% of beds occupied in ICUs) by week / month 
(which ever time period data is available) across the same hospitals in question 1 above, for the 
period 15th March 2020 to 1st October 2020.” 
 
As a result, I have decided to partially transfer part 2 of your request to Northland under section 
14 of the Act. 
 
You can expect a response in due course. 
 
You have the right, under section 28 of the Act to ask the Ombudsman to review  
my decision to transfer your request for information. 
 
Yours sincerely 
 
 
 
Nick Allan 
Manager OIA Services 
Office of the Director-General 


Table 1. List of DHBs accepting the full request 
Auckland 
Waitematā 
Counties Manukau 
Lakes 
Bay of Plenty 
Waikato 
Tairāwhiti 
Taranaki 
MidCentral 
Hawke’s Bay 
Whanganui 
Wairarapa 
Capital and Coast 
Hutt Valley 
Nelson Marlborough 
Canterbury 
West Coast 
South Canterbury 
Southern 
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From:  "DG" <[FYI request #13948 email]> 
To: 
"OIA/LGOIMA requests at Ministry of Health" <[Ministry of Health request email]> 
Date:  10/10/2020 10:11 pm 
Subject: 
Official Information request - Occupancy rate of ICU in NZ hospitals 
Dear Ministry of Health, 
I would like to know: 
1) What is the maximum bed occupancy in ICU (intensive care units) across all
hospitals in New Zealand, in total.
2) What has been the bed occupancy rate (% of beds occupied in ICUs) by week
/ month (which ever time period data is available) across the same hospitals
in question 1 above, for the period 15th March 2020 to 1st October 2020
Yours faithfully, 
D.Griffiths
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