Taranaki District Health Board
Private Bag 2016
New Plymouth 4620
New Zealand
Telephone 06 753 6139
Fax: 06 753 7770
Email
: [email address]
www.tdhb.org.nz
Taranaki Base Hospital
Private Bag 2016
New Plymouth 4620
New Zealand
Phone: 06 753 6139
Fax: 06 753 7710
Hāwera Hospital
16 November 2020
Post Office Box 98
Hāwera
New Zealand
Phone: 06 278-9929
Fax: 06 278 9910
Stratford Health Centre Phone: 06 765 7189
D Griffiths
Opunake Medical Centre
Via Email:
[FYI request #13948 email]
(CoastalCare)
Phone: 06 761 7324
Pātea Health Centre
Phone: 06 273 8088
Waitara Health Centre
Phone: 06 754 7150
Dear Sir/Madam
Mōkau Health Centre
Phone: 06 752 9723
Re:
Official Information Act
I am responding on behalf of Taranaki District Health Board (DHB) to your OIA request of 10 October 2020,
which was transferred to Taranaki DHB by the Ministry of Health on 19 October 2020. You have requested
the following information:
1) What is the maximum bed occupancy in ICU (intensive care units) across all hospitals in New Zealand,
in total.
Taranaki DHB’s ICU has in total 16 beds; this includes 1 bed in a procedure room which can be utilised
if necessary.
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.
Date Period
Throughput Occupancy
15 Mar to 31 Mar 2020
48.53%
1 Apr - 30 Apr 2020
33.61%
1 May to 31 May 2020
50.54%
1 Jun to 30 Jun 2020
65.50%
1 Jul to 31 Jul 2020
57.90%
1 Aug to 31 Aug 2020
57.31%
1 Sep to 30 Sep 2020
62.28%
1 Oct 2020
53.33%
I trust the above information answers your OIA request.
Yours sincerely
Gillian Campbell
Chief Operating Officer