Tuesday, 17 November 2020
D. Griffiths
[FYI request #13948 email] Re: Official Information Act Request - ICU occupancy rates
Kia ora D. Griffiths
Thank you for your request for information under the Official Information Act 1982.
Hauora Tairāwhiti’s response to your request is as follows:
1. What is the maximum bed occupancy in ICU (intensive care units) across all hospitals in New Zealand
in total?
Hauora Tairāwhiti has a combined ICU (Intensive Care Unit), CCU (Critical Care Unit) and HDU (High
Dependency Unit) facility containing 6 commissioned beds.
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 15 March 2020
to 1 October?
March 2020
40.20%
April 2020
24.44%
May 2020
51.08%
June 2020
66.11%
July 2020
62.37%
August 2020
46.77%
September 2020
62.22%
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602.
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to consider this.
Ngā mihi
Jim Green
Chief Executive
Hauora Tairāwhiti