Taranaki District Health Board
Private Bag 2016
New Plymouth 4620
New Zealand
Telephone 06 753 6139
Fax: 06 753 7770
Email: [Taranaki District Health Board request email]
www.tdhb.org.nz
Taranaki Base Hospital
Private Bag 2016
New Plymouth 4620
15 November 2021
New Zealand
Phone: 06 753 6139
Fax: 06 753 7710
Amy S Van Wey Lovatt
Hāwera Hospital
Post Office Box 98
Hāwera
[FYI request #16698 email]
New Zealand
Phone: 06 278-9929
Fax: 06 278 9910
Dear Amy
Stratford Health Centre Phone: 06 765 7189
Opunake Medical Centre
Re: Official Information Act
(CoastalCare)
Phone: 06 761 7324
Pātea Health Centre
I am responding on behalf of Taranaki District Health Board (DHB) to your request Phone: 06 273 8088
dated 19 October 2021 for further information in relation to the Waikato DHB
Waitara Health Centre
Phone: 06 754 7150
cyberattack and specifically, if the Datix Midland Integrated Quality and Risk system
Mōkau Health Centre
Phone: 06 752 9723
was compromised.
1. I have requested copies of all contracts with companies who provide servers (cloud and physical
services). However you have not given me a legal justification for denying my request. Please
provide me with the legal justification: section and clause of the OIA for the refusal.
This request is declined under Section 9(2)(c) of the Act – ‘...the withholding of the information is
necessary to avoid prejudice to measures protecting the health or safety of members of the public’.
2. I have requested a copy of the formal investigation into the matter of whether the Datix system had
been compromised. However you have not given me a legal justification for denying my request.
Please provide me with the legal justification: section and clause of the OIA for the refusal.
This request is declined under Section 18(e) of the Act – ‘…that the document alleged to contain the
information requested does not exist or, despite reasonable efforts to locate it, cannot be found’.
3. I have requested the locations of the servers on which information on the Datix system are stored.
However you have not given me a legal justification for denying my request. Please provide me with
the legal justification: section and clause of the OIA for the refusal.
This request is declined under Section 9(2) (c) of the Act – ‘...the withholding of the information is
necessary to avoid prejudice to measures protecting the health or safety of members of the public’.
4. Please provide me with a copy of your DHB’s protocol, manual, guideline, etc for reporting incidents
to the HQSC, if it is not sent electronically through the Datix system, as asserted by the HQSC.
This request is declined under Section 18(e) of the Act – ‘…that the document alleged to contain the
information requested does not exist or, despite reasonable efforts to locate it, cannot be found’.
Yours sincerely
Lisa Varga
Personal Assistant to Chief Executive