Kia Ora Lee

Thank you for your email request.  It has been passed on to the team who
deal with such requests, one of whom should be in contact in due course in
further correspondence please use E20HDC01788 as a reference

Nāku iti noa, nā

Paul Brown
Complaints Administrator

Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner

Level 10, Tower Centre, 45 Queen Street, Auckland 1010
PO Box 1791, Auckland 1140
[1]Health & Disability Commissioner 
[2]http://www.hdc.org.nz
PPlease consider the environment before printing this email.

From:        Lee Trezise <[FOI #14003 email]>
To:        OIA/LGOIMA requests at Health and Disability Commissioner
<[Health and Disability Commissioner request email]>
Date:        19/10/2020 06:54 p.m.
Subject:        Official Information request - DHB Mental Health Changes
Instituted after Patient Suicide

--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dear Health and Disability Commissioner,

In reference to the story of a woman commiting suicide while waiting for
an urgent assessment, posted on October 19th, by NZHerald
([3]https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/suicide-fa...)

Please provide any documentation, correspondance, notes, meeting minutes,
etc regarding;

* Investigations as to whether other DHBs had sufficient standards,
protocols, etc that would avoid this happening in their DHB

* Whether any corrective actions were made at the other 19 DHBs as a
direct result of this case.

Yours faithfully,

Lee Trezise

-------------------------------------------------------------------

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

Please use this email address for all replies to this request:
[FOI #14003 email]

Is [Health and Disability Commissioner request email] the wrong address for Official Information requests to
Health and Disability Commissioner? If so, please contact us using this
form:
[4]https://fyi.org.nz/change_request/new?bo...

Disclaimer: This message and any reply that you make will be published on
the internet. Our privacy and copyright policies:
[5]https://fyi.org.nz/help/officers

If you find this service useful as an Official Information officer, please
ask your web manager to link to us from your organisation's OIA or LGOIMA
page.

-------------------------------------------------------------------

*************************************************************

The information contained in this document is confidential to the intended
recipient and may be legally privileged. You may not copy or disclose this
email to anyone without the written permission of the sender. It is not
necessarily the view nor an official communication of the Health and
Disability Commissioner. If you have received this email in error, please
notify the sender immediately and delete this message.

*************************************************************

References

Visible links
2. http://www.hdc.org.nz/
3. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/suicide-fa...
4. https://fyi.org.nz/change_request/new?bo...
5. https://fyi.org.nz/help/officers

hide quoted sections

Good afternoon,

Thank you for your information request. Please find attached our response.

Kind regards,

Legal Team
Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner

Telephone: 0800 11 22 33
PO Box 11934, Wellington 6142
Level 11, TechnologyOne House, 86 Victoria Street, Wellington 6011
[1]Health & Disability Commissioner 
*************************************************************

The information contained in this document is confidential to the intended
recipient and may be legally privileged. You may not copy or disclose this
email to anyone without the written permission of the sender. It is not
necessarily the view nor an official communication of the Health and
Disability Commissioner. If you have received this email in error, please
notify the sender immediately and delete this message.

*************************************************************

References

Visible links

hide quoted sections