H202100486.pdf

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PO Box 5013
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New Zealand
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Daryl Trask

By email:  [FYI request #14566 email]
Ref:
H202100496

Dear Daryl Trask

Response to your request for official information

Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) to the Ministry of
Health (the Ministry) on 29 January 2021 for:

“Please forward me copies of all the information or directives from government
organisations regarding procedures and directives and policy guidelines for general
practitioners in NZ regarding covid.
Please include schedule of payments or funding for general practitioners for their actions
related to covid".”

Your request for all information from government organisations regarding COVID-19
procedures, directives and policy guidelines for general practitioners in New Zealand is refused
under section 18(f) as the information requested cannot be made available without substantial
collation or research.
Forty documents have been identified within the scope of your request for general practitioners
COVID-19 funding. Copies of these documents are attached to this letter and have all been
released to you in full.
Further information can be found on the Ministry’s website: www.health.govt.nz/our-
work/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-information-health-
professionals/covid-19-primary-care

I trust this information fulfils your request. Under section 28(3) of the Act you have the right to
ask the Ombudsman to review any decisions made under this request. The Ombudsman may
be contacted by email at: [email address] or by calling 0800 802 602.

Please note that this response, with your personal details removed, may be published on the
Ministry website at: www.health.govt.nz/about-ministry/information-releases/responses-official-
information-act-requests.

Yours sincerely

Monique Burrows
Group Manager, Primary Health Care System Improvement and Innovation
Health System Improvement and Innovation

Appendix One: List of documents for release

#  Date
Title
Decision on release
1  15 June 2020
Funding Package 1
Released with some information withheld
Auckland DHB: COVID- under section 9(2)(b)(i ) where its release
19 Primary Care
would likely unreasonably prejudice the
commercial position of the person who
2  6 April 2020
Funding Package 1 Bay  supplied the information.
of Plenty DHB: COVID-

19 Primary Care
3  6 April 2020
Funding Package 1
Canterbury DHB:
COVID-19 Primary Care
4  N/A
Funding Package 1
Capital and Coast DHB:
COVID-19 Primary Care
5  3 April 2020
Funding Package 1
Counties Manukau DHB:
COVID-19 Primary Care
6  N/A
Funding Package 1
Hawke’s Bay DHB:
COVID-19 Primary Care
7  N/A
Funding Package 1 Hutt
Valley DHB: COVID-19
Primary Care
8  3 April 2020
Funding Package 1
Lakes DHB: COVID-19
Primary Care
9   20 April 2020
Funding Package 1 Mid-
Central DHB: COVID-19
Primary Care
10  3 April 2020
Funding Package 1
Nelson Marlborough
DHB: COVID-19 Primary
Care
11  N/A
Funding Package 1
Northland DHB: COVID-
19 Primary Care
12  6 April 2020
Funding Package 1
South Canterbury DHB:
COVID-19 Primary Care
13  14 May 2020
Funding Package 1
Southern DHB: COVID-
19 Primary Care
14  6 April 2020
Funding Package 1
Tairawhiti DHB: COVID-
19 Primary Care
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#  Date
Title
Decision on release
15  20 April 2020
Funding Package 1
Released with some information withheld
Taranaki DHB: COVID-
under section 9(2)(b)(i ) where its release
19 Primary Care
would likely unreasonably prejudice the
commercial position of the person who
16  18 May 2020
Funding Package 1
supplied the information.
Waikato DHB: COVID-19
Primary Care
17  13 July 2020
Funding Package 1
Wairarapa DHB: COVID-
19 Primary Care
18  9 April 2020
Funding Package 1
Waitemata DHB: COVID-
19 Primary Care
19  6 April 2020
Funding Package 1 West
Coast DHB: COVID-19
Primary Care
20  3 April 2020
Funding Package 1
Whanganui DHB:
COVID-19 Primary Care
21  21 October 2020
Funding Package 2
Auckland DHB –
Sustainability Funding
22  22 October 2020
Funding Package 2 Bay
of Plenty DHB -
Sustainability Funding
23  N/A
Funding Package 2
Canterbury DHB:
COVID-19 Primary Care
24  N/A
Funding Package 2
Capital and Coast DHB -
Sustainability Funding
25  21 October 2020
Funding Package 2
Counties Manukau DHB:
COVID-19 Primary Care
26  N/A
Funding Package 2
Hawke’s Bay DHB -
Sustainability Funding
27  10 November 2020   Funding Package 2 Hutt
Valley DHB -
Sustainability Funding
28  21 October 2020
Funding Package 2
Lakes DHB -
Sustainability Funding
29  27 October 2020
Funding Package 2 Mid-
Central DHB -
Sustainability Funding
30  21 October 2020
Funding Package 2
Nelson Marlborough
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#  Date
Title
Decision on release
DHB - Sustainability
Funding
31  N/A
Funding Package 2
Released with some information withheld
Northland DHB -
under section 9(2)(b)(i ) where its release
Sustainability Funding
would likely unreasonably prejudice the
commercial position of the person who
32  21 October 2020
Funding Package 2
supplied the information.
South Canterbury DHB -
Sustainability Funding
33  22 December 2020   Funding Package 2
Southern DHB -
Sustainability Funding
34  21 October 2020
Funding Package 2
Tairawhiti DHB -
Sustainability Funding
35  20 April 2020
Funding Package 2
Taranaki DHB -
Sustainability Funding
36  18 May 2020
Funding Package 2
Waikato DHB -
Sustainability Funding
37  13 July 2020
Funding Package 2
Wairarapa DHB -
Sustainability Funding
38  24 November 2020   Funding Package 2
Waitemata DHB -
Sustainability Funding
39  22 October 2020
Funding Package 2 West
Coast DHB -
Sustainability Funding
40  23 October 2020
Funding Package 2
Whanganui DHB -
Sustainability Funding

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