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133 Molesworth Street
PO Box 5013
Wellington 6140
New Zealand
T +64 4 496 2000
Shay McGuinness
By email: fyi-req uest-1412 5-e4381 aa2@req uests. fyi. org. nz
Ref:
H202008214
Dear Shay
Decision to your request for official information
I refer to your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) received on 13
November 2020 for information relating to communications on the provision of helicopter air
ambulance services.
You specifically requested:
"Please provide all communications {Including but not limited to: emails, letters, memos,
reports, papers and text messages) between the following senior individuals in the
Ministry of Health (MoH) and Auckland District Health Board (ADHB) regarding the
provision of helicopter air ambulance services.
ADHB
1. Ailsa Claire
MoH
1. Ashley Bloomfield
2.
Keriana Brooking
Note:
1. Applicable dates are 117/2019 to 13/11/2020
2. Emails include those sent, received or cc'd and include any attachments".
The Ministry have identified documents within the scope of your request. This includes
information requested within the dates between 1 July 2019 and 13 November 2020 and
individuals named in your request. This information is currently being administratively processed
and will be provided to you in due course.
In our response we have only included the emails between the named respondents. Some
emails between named respondents refer to earlier emails in an email trail. Those emails
in the email trail that were not between the named respondents have been excluded from
the email documents. Information that is referenced in the email collation but is not
attached in the email correspondence has been excluded from the release of information.
Date & Document
Type of Correspondence
Decision on release
Name
8
1 July 2019 and 13
Emails
Released documents with some
November 2020
redactions. Some information has
been withheld pursuant to the
H202008214 Compiled
following sections of the Act:
•
Email Correspondence
Section 9(2)(a) to protect
the privacy of natural
persons
• Section 9(2)(b )(ii) to protect
information where the
making available of the
information would be likely
unreasonably to prejudice
the commercial position of
the person who supplied or
who is subject of the
information.
Please note some emails have been deemed 'out of scope' and removed accordingly. The email
dated 5 August 2019 refers to an email attachment. We have endeavored to search for the
attachment referenced in this email, however due to it not being attached in the original
correspondence, it cannot be found.
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