Changes Instituted as a result of delayed Mental Health Assessment
Lee Trezise made this Official Information request to Ministry of Health
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From: Lee Trezise
Dear Ministry of Health,
In reference to the story of a woman commiting suicide while waiting for an urgent assessment, posted on October 19th, by NZHerald (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
Ministry of Health
Kia ora Lee Trezise
I am writing further to your request for official information:
"In reference to the story of a woman commiting suicide while waiting for
an urgent assessment, posted on October 19th, by NZHerald
([1]https://scanmail.trustwave.com/?c=15517&...)
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."
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Kia ora Lee,
Please find attached a letter regarding your request for information.
Ngā mihi
OIA Services
Government Services
Office of the Director-General
Ministry of Health
E: [1][email address]
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From: Lee Trezise
Dear OIA Requests,
Can you please confirm that your transfer of this OIA requests means the MoH conducted no such outreach to the DHBs.
If it does not, please provide all relevant documents.
Yours sincerely,
Lee Trezise
From: OIA Requests
Dear Lee,
I can confirm that the Ministry of Health conducted no such outreach to the DHBs.
Kind regards,
OIA Services
Government Services
Office of the Director-General
Ministry of Health
E: [email address]
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