Covid 19 Modelling and other reports
Helen Wallis made this Official Information request to Ministry of Health
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From: Helen Wallis
Dear Ministry of Health,
Please send me the updated reports as stated below as the ones available on your publications website are all over 18 months old:
Consequences and mitigation strategies for COVID-19 control measures
Control measures to deliver COVID-19 strategie
COVID-19 in childrens: Education sector evidence review
Potential Worse Case Health Impacts from the COVID-19 Pandemic for New Zealand if Eradication Fails
Rationale for Border Control Interventions and Options to Prevent or Delay the Arrival of Covid-19 in New Zealand
Supporting the COVID-19 pandemic response: Surveillance and Outbreak Analytics
Alternatively please send me any reports that are covering the same content and are current.
Yours faithfully,
Helen Wallis
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[4]Ministry of Health information releases
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Kia ora Helen,
Thank you for your request for official information, received on24
November 2021 requesting:
“Consolidated request: Please send me the updated reports as stated below
as the ones available on your publications website are all over 18 months
old:
Consequences and mitigation strategies for COVID-19 control measures
Control measures to deliver COVID-19 strategie
COVID-19 in childrens: Education sector evidence review
Potential Worse Case Health Impacts from the COVID-19 Pandemic for New
Zealand if Eradication Fails
Rationale for Border Control Interventions and Options to Prevent or Delay
the Arrival of Covid-19 in New Zealand
Supporting the COVID-19 pandemic response: Surveillance and Outbreak
Analytics
Alternatively please send me any reports that are covering the same
content and are current.
Please provide me the report showing the breakdown of vaccinated vs
un-vaccinated (including 1st dose, 2nd dose etc) for hospitalisations from
the 7th August 2021 until the 24 November 2021.
Please provide me with the number reported co-morbidities per
hospitisation/death (eg. 2,3,1,2,3 to not give reference to a date and or
patient) and a non patient specific list of these co-morbidities to not
break patient confidentiality.
If these are too specific then a total number per month is also
acceptable.”
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You can now expect a response to your request on, or before, 21 February
2022.
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Ministry of Health
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From: Helen Wallis
Dear OIA Requests,
i submitted these two requests separately as they are two different sets of information. Please respond separately to each.
I also call into question a delay of over two months for you to provide me with this information.
This information is surely held on hand as you publish this information on your website and it is reasonable to expect that this information should be kept as up to date as possible.
As an example if a company was to be using your website to source information for a Health and Safety risk assessment and were looking to keep themselves up to date with the official government (the government declared that the only reliable data and evidence will come from them as a source) information as they are required to in the HSAW Act 2015 then they would be expecting to see the latest information.
Also you obviously want to keep the NZ public up to date with the latest information as it is relevant for a whole variety of reasons including effecting the Bill of rights, human rights, decisions effecting a persons health, mental health, family decisions, family planning, unemployment, the roll out of vaccines to 5-11 year olds etc.
Based on this I don't see how there needs to be a large search for information. I am only requesting documents that you should have, not requesting any new documents to be constructed.
In regards to the information about the breakdown of vaccinated/unvaccinated hospitalizations and co-morbidities I do not believe that this is information that you do not have to hand as this is information presented regularly, if in redacted form, to the public during the information releases that you make on a regular basis.
I request that you review your delay and respond as soon as reasonably practicable. If you wish to maintain the delay please give a full disclosure explanation for each question as to why the delay is necessary including the limiting factors etc.
Again as a final request please respond to these requests separately.
Yours sincerely,
Helen Wallis
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Kia ora,
Thank you for your Official Information Act (the Act) request. This is
an automatic reply to let you know we received it.
Due to the COVID-19 global pandemic response, the Ministry is experiencing
significantly higher volumes of queries and requests for information. We
will endeavour to acknowledge your request as soon as possible. Further
information about COVID-19 can be found on our
website: [1]https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/dise...
Please be advised that due dates for requests received from 29 November
2021 onwards take into account the following periods:
Christmas (25 December 2021)
Summer Holidays (25 December to 15 January)
New Year's Day (1 January 2022)
Day after News Year's Day (2 January 2022)
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Ngā mihi
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[4]Ministry of Health information releases
[5]Unite against COVID-19
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Tēnā koe Helen,
Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the
Act) to the Ministry of Health (the Ministry) on 24 November 2021 for
updates on reports from our website.
You specifically requested:
Consequences and mitigation strategies for COVID-19 control measures
Control measures to deliver COVID-19 strategies
This information is publicly available here:
o [1]www.health.govt.nz/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-response-planning/covid-19-minimisation-and-protection-strategy-aotearoa-new-zealand
o [2]www.health.govt.nz/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-response-planning/covid-19-community-response-framework
o [3]www.health.govt.nz/publication/covid-19-modelling-and-other-commissioned-reports
COVID-19 in childrens: Education sector evidence review
Information regarding COVID-19 and education is publicly available here:
o [4]https://covid19.govt.nz/assets/Proactive...
o [5]https://covid19.govt.nz/assets/Proactive...
o [6]https://covid19.govt.nz/about-our-covid-...
Further information about COVID-19 and education can be found on the
Ministry of Education website at: [7]www.education.govt.nz/covid-19/
Potential Worse Case Health Impacts from the COVID-19 Pandemic for New
Zealand if Eradication Fails
This information is publicly available
here: [8]https://journal.nzma.org.nz/journal-arti...
Rationale for Border Control Interventions and Options to Prevent or Delay
the Arrival of Covid-19 in New Zealand
Information regarding border control is publicly available here:
o [9]www.health.govt.nz/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-response-planning/covid-19-border-controls
o [10]https://covid19.govt.nz/assets/resources...
o [11]https://covid19.govt.nz/assets/Proactive...
o [12]https://covid19.govt.nz/assets/Proactive...
o [13]https://covid19.govt.nz/assets/Proactive...
o [14]https://covid19.govt.nz/about-our-covid-...
Supporting the COVID-19 pandemic response: Surveillance and Outbreak
Analytics
This information is publicly available
here: [15]www.health.govt.nz/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-response-planning/covid-19-surveillance-strategy
Alternatively please send me any reports that are covering the same
content and are current.
Please provide me the report showing the breakdown of vaccinated vs
un-vaccinated (including 1st dose, 2nd dose etc) for hospitalisations from
the 7th August 2021 until the 24 November 2021.
Please provide me with the number reported co-morbidities per
hospitisation/death (eg. 2,3,1,2,3 to not give reference to a date and or
patient) and a non patient specific list of these co-morbidities to not
break patient confidentiality.
The Ministry continues to improve on its reporting of national
hospitalisation data related to COVID-19. Initially that will involve
comprehensive reporting of all cases in hospital with COVID-19 for the
Northern region – Northland DHB and the three Auckland metro DHBs. This
can be used as an early indicator of demand on our hospitals. We expect
to begin this in February 2022.
Subsequently we will be reconciling those figures with discharge data and
supplementing our reporting to reflect those in hospital with a primary
cause of COVID-19 for the Northern region. We expect to start this is
March. Over time similar reporting for other regions will be added to the
national reporting.
The Ministry will be updating death data on our website in due course.
Under section 28(3) of the Act, you have the right to ask the Ombudsman to
review any decisions made under this request. The Ombudsman may be
contacted by email at: [16][email address] or by calling 0800
802 602.
Ngā mihi
OIA Services Team
[17]Ministry of Health information releases
[18]Unite against COVID-19
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4. https://covid19.govt.nz/assets/Proactive...
5. https://covid19.govt.nz/assets/Proactive...
6. https://covid19.govt.nz/about-our-covid-...
7. http://www.education.govt.nz/covid-19/
8. https://journal.nzma.org.nz/journal-arti...
9. http://www.health.govt.nz/covid-19-novel...
10. https://covid19.govt.nz/assets/resources...
11. https://covid19.govt.nz/assets/Proactive...
12. https://covid19.govt.nz/assets/Proactive...
13. https://covid19.govt.nz/assets/Proactive...
14. https://covid19.govt.nz/about-our-covid-...
15. http://www.health.govt.nz/covid-19-novel...
16. mailto:[email address]
17. https://www.health.govt.nz/about-ministr...
18. https://covid19.govt.nz/
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