Corporate Services
7 May 2021
Elodie Green
Email: [FYI request #14944 email]
Dear Elodie
YOUR OFFICIAL INFORMATION ACT (1982) REQUEST HBDHB REF: OIA2021026
I refer to your Official Information Act request dated 18 March 2021 where you requested information from
Hawke’s Bay District Health Board (HBDHB). Your questions and HBDHB’s response is provided below:
For Community Mental Health; Child and adolescent metal health; and (Te Haika) Mental Health Crisis
response:
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Number of distinct new entries/cases per month, by age group (five year bands if possible*),
2015 – 2020 calendar year
•
Number of total new entries/cases per month, by age group (five year bands), 2015 – 2020
calendar year
•
Number of distinct cases open at month end, by age group (five year bands), 2015 – 2020
calendar year
•
Number of distinct exits per month, by age group (five year bands if possible*), 2015 – 2020
calendar year
•
Number of total new exits per month, by age group (five year bands), 2015 – 2020 calendar
year
The above request requires many hours of searching electronic records and significant involvement by our
information systems team. Therefore, your request is declined under Section 18(f) of the Official Information Act
relating to substantial collation or research.
Note: Hawke’s Bay DHB follows the Government guidelines set out by the Ministry of Justice for charging for the
purposes of release of information under the Official Information Act. Staff time is charged at $38.00 per half hour or
part thereof, after the first hour which is free. The rate applies to all staff dealing with requests, irrespective of
seniority or grade, the charges include GST. The DHB can advise the estimated time and cost associated with this
request, if required.
For the DHB:
•
Number of hospitalisations for mental health per year, by age group (five year bands), 2015 –
2020 calendar year
•
Number of people waitlisted to see a psychologist per year, by age group (five year bands),
2015 – 2020 calendar year
•
C H I E F E X E C U T I V E ’ S O F F I C E
Hawke’s Bay District Health Board
Telephone 06 878 8109 Fax 06 878 1648 Email:
[email address]; www.hawkesbay.health.nz
Corporate Office, Cnr Omahu Road and McLeod Street, Private Bag 9014, Hastings 4156, New Zealand
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Number of people seeing a psychologist, per year, by age group (five year bands), 2015 – 2020
calendar year
•
Number of psychologists employed by the DHB at year end (split by part time, full time,
contracted) by year, 2015 – 2020 calendar year
*Five year bands are ideally 0 – 5, 6 – 10, 11 -15, 16- 20, 21 – 25, 26 -30, etc. If there is too much
suppression in those age bands can it please be in ten year age bands.
Number of hospitalisations for mental health per year, by age group (five year bands), 2015 – 2020
calendar year
10 year age
bands
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
11-20 yrs
90
82
91
75
68
60
21-30 yrs
121
161
140
131
171
159
31-40 yrs
95
87
93
72
75
91
41-50 yrs
104
90
110
104
68
77
51-60 yrs
122
76
98
68
77
81
61-70 yrs
69
44
29
22
33
21
71-80 yrs
20
10
11
15
6
23
81-90 yrs
7
6
6
2
4
0
91+ yrs
0
0
1
0
0
1
Total:
628
556
579
489
502
513
Number of people waitlisted to see a psychologist per year, by age group (five year bands), 2015 – 2020
calendar year
The DHB is unable to pull specific data to your question due to record tranfers onto a central system.
Previously psychologists in some services managed cases using different systems.
The work required to manually retrieve, review and collate the information requests from a vast number of
patient clinical notes would need to be done by a health professional. Therefore, your request is declined
under Section 18(f) of the Official Information Act relating to information that cannot be made available
without substantial manual collation or research.
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Number of people seeing a psychologist in the DHB’s Mental Health Service, per year, by age group (five
year bands), 2015 – 2020 calendar year.
10 year age
bands
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
0-10 yrs
64
41
23
41
42
58
11-20 yrs
136
89
81
106
114
123
21-30 yrs
93
107
134
103
71
86
31-40 yrs
51
68
73
65
52
82
41-50 yrs
42
57
79
61
31
74
51-60 yrs
34
34
38
33
30
38
61-70 yrs
15
16
14
16
14
16
71-80 yrs
2
2
3
4
6
3
81+ yrs
0
0
1
0
0
0
Total:
437
414
446
429
360
480
Number of psychologists employed by the DHB at year end (split by part time, full time, contracted) by year,
2015 – 2020 calendar year
Full-time
Part-time
Total Comment
31-Dec-2015
9
5
14
31-Dec-2016
8
6
14
31-Dec-2017
8
10
18 Includes:
2 parental leave - x1 full and x1 part
2 Interns - both part-time
31-Dec-2018
5
12
17 Includes 1 parental leave
(Part-time)
31 Dec-2019
6
10
16 Includes 2 parental leave
(x1 full-time x1 part-time)
31-Dec-2020
7
10
17 Includes 1 parental leave
(Part-time)
I trust this information meets your needs. If you would like any further information or clarification please phone me. If
you are not satisfied with this response you may contact the Office of the Ombudsman, phone 0800 802 602.
Please note that this response, or an edited version of this response, may be published on the Hawke’s Bay DHB
website after your receipt of this response.
Yours sincerely
Chris Ash
Chief Operating Officer, Provider Services
TE PUNI RATONGA
cc:
Ministry of Health via email: [email address] - [Hawke's Bay District Health Board request email]
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