Wairarapa DHB mental healthcare service use
Elodie Green made this Official Information request to Wairarapa District Health Board
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From: Elodie Green
Dear Wairarapa District Health Board,
I am seeking information on the performance and service of DHBs for their provision of mental health services. I would like data for the following:
For Community Mental Health; Child and adolescent metal health; and (Te Haika) Mental Health Crisis response:
• 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
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
• 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.
Yours faithfully,
Elodie Green
From: OIA Request [WrDHB]
Wairarapa District Health Board
Dear Elodie
Official information request regarding Wairarapa DHB mental healthcare
services W21-601
I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your official information request
dated 23 April 2021, received by this office on 23 April 2021, for
information on Wairarapa DHB mental healthcare services [our reference
W21-601].
We will endeavour to respond to your request as soon as possible and in
any event no later than 24 May 2021, being 20 working days after the day
your request was received. If we are unable to respond to your request by
then, we will notify you of an extension of that timeframe.
If the information requested cannot be made available without substantial
collation, under section 18(f) and section 18A(1)(a) of the Official
Information Act 1982 we may refuse the request or fix a charge under
section 15. If your request falls into this category we will inform you as
soon as possible.
If any additional factors come to light that are relevant to your request,
please do not hesitate to contact us so that these can be taken into
account.
Please note that, like all DHBs across New Zealand, Wairarapa DHB has
adopted a model of proactive disclosure which sees OIA responses publicly
available on our website no less than one week after they have been
released.
If you believe there are any special reasons why proactive disclosure
should not apply to your response, we will be happy to consider this.
Kind regards
Georgie Ross | OIA Coordinator | Wairarapa DHB
Phone 06 946 9800 (x5840)
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