Taranaki District Health Board
Private Bag 2016
New Plymouth 4620
New Zealand
Telephone 06 753 6139
Fax: 06 753 7770
Email: [email address]
www.tdhb.org.nz
Taranaki Base Hospital
Private Bag 2016
New Plymouth 4620
New Zealand
19 January 2022
Phone: 06 753 6139
Fax: 06 753 7710
Hāwera Hospital
Post Office Box 98
Hāwera
Andrew McGregor
New Zealand
Phone: 06 278-9929
Via emails:
[FYI request #17690 email]
Fax: 06 278 9910
[email address]
Stratford Health Centre Phone: 06 765 7189
[email address]
Opunake Medical Centre
(CoastalCare)
Phone: 06 761 7324
Dear Mr McGregor
Pātea Health Centre
Phone: 06 273 8088
Waitara Health Centre
Re:
Official Information Act
Phone: 06 754 7150
Mōkau Health Centre
Phone: 06 752 9723
I am responding on behalf of Taranaki District Health Board (DHB) to your OIA requests of
24 November 2021 which were transferred to Taranaki DHB on 22 December 2021 by the Ministry of Health.
You have requested the following information:
•
What are the official guidelines/procedures for urgent X-rays (24 hour)?
Taranaki DHB does not have any official guidelines for urgent x-rays as this is would be dependent on
the clinical scenario.
•
What are the guidelines/procedures for patients repeatedly admitted to the Emergency Department
with severe epigastric pain/and upper right and left quadrant pain?
Taranaki DHB does not have specific official guidelines for recurrent presentations for abdominal pain
as this would be dependent on the clinical scenario.
•
Guidelines/procedures for investigating possible Colonic Motility Dysfunction/Defecatory
Disorders/Anorectal Dysfunction.
Taranaki DHB does not have specific guidelines for motility disorders however can carry out the
following motility testing via nuclear medicine testing:
o Gastric emptying study
o Colonic motility study (an x-ray marker study can also be done for colonic motility)
Other tests are sent to other DHBs on a case by case basis e.g. oesophageal rectal manometry,
defecating proctograms, oesophageal impedence studies.
I trust the above information answers your OIA request.
Kind regards
Katy Sheffield
Chief Operating Officer (acting)