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
[email address]
22 February 2022
Andrew McGregor
By email:
[FYI request #17690 email]
Dear Andrew
Re: Official Information Request for Treatment Protocols
I refer to your official information requests dated 24 November 2021 and transferred to Auckland DHB 22
December for the following information:
1) Guidelines/procedure for investigating possible Colonic Motility Dysfunction/Defecatory
Disorders/Anorectal Dysfunction
2) What are the Guidelines/procedures for patients repeatedly admitted to Emergency Department
with severe epigastric pain/ and upper right and left quadrant pain
3) What are the official Guidelines/procedures for urgent X-rays (24 hour)
Response
1) Anorectal Dysfunction
See Attachment 1. Anorectal Malformations and Attachment 2. Proctitis 2020 ASHS
We are refusing your request for Guidelines/procedures for investigating possible Colonic Motility
Dysfunction/Defactory Disorders as we do not hold this information.
2) Severe epigastric pain/ and upper right and left quadrant pain
We are refusing your request for Guidelines/procedures for patients repeatedly admitted to
Emergency Department with severe epigastric pain/ and upper right and left quadrant pain as we
do not hold this information.
3) Urgent X-rays (24 hour)
See Attachment 3. Radiology-Fast-Track-Chest-X-Ray-AED-and-APU_2018-02-13, Attachment 4.
X-Ray-Requests-By-Nurses_2020-02-18 and Attachment 5 Observation and Monitoring in AED/CDU
Those parts of your request that are refused are done so citing under s18(e) Official Information Act – the
information requested does not exist.
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.
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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
Encl.
Attachment 1. Anorectal Malformations
Attachment 2. Proctitis 2020 ASHS
Attachment 3. Radiology-Fast-Track-Chest-X-Ray-AED-and-APU_2018-02-13
Attachment 4. X-Ray-Requests-By-Nurses_2020-02-18
Attachment 5. Observation and Monitoring in AED-CDU
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