Adverse events

Heather Darby made this Official Information request to Accident Compensation Corporation

The request was partially successful.

From: Heather Darby

Dear Accident Compensation Corporation,

1. Kindly provide the total number of treatment injury adverse events claims that have been submitted after people have received the Covid-19 Pfizer jab.

2. How many of these treatment injury adverse events claims have been accepted?

Yours faithfully,

Heather Darby

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From: Government Services
Accident Compensation Corporation

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From: Government Services
Accident Compensation Corporation

Kia ora Heather,
 
Thank you for your email of 26 January 2022.  You can find the information
relating to Covid-19 vaccinations on our website here [1]Covid 19 data
release for January). This data is updated each month, and was extracted
on 12 January 2022 and includes claims lodged between 18 February 2021,
when New Zealand began Covid vaccinations, and 8 January 2022. 
 
There is also datasets published on [2]data.govt.nz  here [3]Vaccine
Injury compensation - Dataset - data.govt.nz - discover and use data.
 
We also publish OIA responses on various topics here [4]Resources
(acc.co.nz).  
 
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[5][email address]. If you are not happy with this response,
you have the right to make a complaint to the Ombudsman. Information about
how to do this is available at [6]www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or by
phoning 0800 802 602.
 
Ngā mihi

 

​Sasha Wood, 

Manager, OIA Services , ACC

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From: Heather Darby

Dear Accident Compensation Corporation,

The answer you supplied does not provide answers to my questions.

1. Kindly provide the TOTAL NUMBER OF TREATMENT INJURY ADVERSE EVENTS CLAIMS that have been submitted after people have received the Covid-19 Pfizer jab.

2. How many of these treatment injury adverse events claims have been accepted / actioned?

Yours faithfully,

Heather Darby

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From: Government Services
Accident Compensation Corporation

Kia ora

 

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The information you have requested may involve documents which contains
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Ngâ mihi,

Government Engagement and Support Team

 

 

Government Engagement and Support, ACC

' 0800 101 996
* Box 242, Wellington 6011

[5]www.acc.co.nz

 

 

 

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Accident Compensation Corporation

Kia ora Heather,

All the information you have requested is provided in the links in our response to you of 27 January 2021. This includes the total number of claims lodged up until 8 January 2022, as well as accepted, declined and held claims. The next refresh of data will be released in February.

Therefore your request is refused under section 18(d) of the OIA as the information is publicly available.

If you are not happy with this response, you have the right to make a complaint to the Ombudsman. Information about how to do this is available at www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or by phoning 0800 802 602.

Ngā mihi,

Government Services

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From: Heather Darby

Dear Government Services,

I'm so sorry. The links that have been given to me do not take me to the requested info. I wonder if there is an error in the links.

Yours sincerely,

Heather Darby

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From: Government Services
Accident Compensation Corporation

Kia ora

 

Thank you for contacting ACC; this is an automatic reply to confirm we
have received your email.

 

In cases where ACC’s response provides information that is identified to
be of general public interest, the response may also be published on the
ACC’s website. If ACC publishes the response to your OIA request, all
personal information, including your name and contact details, will be
removed.

 

The information you have requested may involve documents which contains
the names of our staff. Please let us know whether you require these
names. We may need to consult our staff before deciding whether we can
release this information, and this may take a bit more time. If we do not
hear from you, we will assume that you do not require staff names.

 

Our [1]website provides up to date news and information about our work.
You can also follow us on [2]Facebook and [3]Twitter. Further information
about how to contact us is also available [4]here.

 

Ngâ mihi,

Government Engagement and Support Team

 

 

Government Engagement and Support, ACC

' 0800 101 996
* Box 242, Wellington 6011

[5]www.acc.co.nz

 

 

 

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Kia ora Heather,

You can find it here https://www.acc.co.nz/assets/oia-respons...

Ngā mihi,

Government Services

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