Chief Executive’s Office
Level 12, Building 01
Auckland City Hospital
P O Box 92189
Auckland 1142
(09) 630-9943 ext 22342
Fax: 375 3341
[Auckland District Health Board request email]
30 November 2021
Christopher Auld
By email to: [FYI request #17436 email]
Dear Christopher
Re: Official Information Request for Isolation at Home Information
I refer to your official information request dated 09 November 2021 for the following information
Please provide the fol owing information as at 2nd November 2021.
1. Al documentation relating to the processes and procedures for managing persons
isolated at home under the ‘Overseas Arrivals At Home MIQ trial’ currently underway.
Please ensure this includes, but is not limited to, the documentation of processes and
procedures for;
a. The assessment of individual risk-factors for compliance with the requirements of at
home isolation. Please ensure that you include details as to whether assessment
inquires as to criminal convictions or membership of a gang (as gang is defined in s2
of the Prohibition of Gang Insignia in Government Premises Act 2013)
b. Testing for Covid-19 including how samples are to be col ected.
c. Monitoring for health symptoms including any diagnostic instruments such as
thermometers provided to isolated persons.
d. Monitoring for ‘stay home’ compliance including any technology used to support
this.
e. Monitoring for ‘no visitors’ compliance including any technology used to support this
f. Procedures to be fol owed if an isolated person tests positive for Covid-19 including
how they are evaluated against the criteria for quarantining at home as a positive
case.
2. Al documentation relating to the processes and procedures for persons who have
tested positive for Covid-19 and who are quarantined at home.
Please ensure this includes, but is not limited to, the documentation of processes and
procedures for;
a. How individuals The assessment of individual and/or group risk-factors for compliance
with at home quarantine. Please ensure that you include details as to whether
assessment inquires as to criminal convictions or membership of a gang (as gang is
defined in s2 of the Prohibition of Gang Insignia in Government Premises Act 2013)
b. Determining whether an individual or group is to be quarantined qualifies for at home
quarantine or wil be moved to an MIQ facility
c. Testing for Covid-19 including how samples are to be col ected.
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d. Monitoring for health symptoms including any diagnostic instruments such as
thermometers provided to isolated persons.
e. Monitoring for ‘stay home’ compliance including any technology used to support this.
f. Monitoring for ‘no visitors’ compliance including any technology used to support this
g. Determining that an individual or group is to be moved to an MIQ facility based on any
change in health status or non-compliance with the requirements of at home quarantine
We are unable to provide a response within the normal timeframes due to our response to COVID-
19, as our clinicians, managers and staff are concentrating on measures to manage the current
COVID-19 Delta outbreak in the region.
Given these circumstances you wil , therefore, understand that we do not currently have the
capacity to respond with our normal timeliness to OIA requests and, depending on how the outbreak
spreads, we may not have the capacity for some time to come.
It is therefore necessary to extend the time required to make a decision on your request for
information in accordance with section 15A of the Official Information Act. This is because the
information cannot reasonably be identified, collated or reviewed by the necessary people within 20
working days without unreasonably interfering with our operations. As such, we expect that a
decision wil be made on your request and communicated to you by 21 December (ten working days
from the due date of your request). However, we wil endeavour to get the response to you as soon
as possible within this timeframe, if possible.
You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of this decision.
Information about how to make a complaint is available
at www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or
freephone 0800 802 602.
Please note that this response, or an edited version of this response, may be published on the
Auckland DHB website.
Yours sincerely,
Ailsa Claire, OBE
Chief Executive
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