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Due to the COVID-19 global pandemic response, the Ministry is experiencing
significantly higher volumes of queries and requests for information. This
means we may take some time in responding to your request. The Ministry
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Kia ora John,

 

Thank you for your request for official information. The Ministry's
reference number for your request is: H202203018

 

As required under the Official Information Act 1982, the Ministry will
endeavour to respond to your request no later than 20 working days after
the day your request was received. If you'd like to calculate the
timeframe, you can use the Ombudsman's online calculator
here: [1]http://www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/

 

Due to the COVID-19 global pandemic response, the Ministry is experiencing
significantly higher volumes of queries and requests for information. If
we are unable to respond to your request within this time frame, we will
notify you of an extension of that time frame.

 

If you have any queries related to this request, please do not hesitate to
get in touch.

 

Ngā mihi

 

OIA Services

Government Services

Office of the Director-General

Ministry of Health

E: [2][email address]

 

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Tçnâ koe John

 

Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the
Act) to the Ministry of Health (the Ministry) on 23 February 2022 for:

 

“how you are currently capturing the numbers for those people "in
hospital" with Covid-19, and/or "hospitalised" with Covid-19?

 

i.e. Are they captured in the data because they went to hospital to be
treated for Covid-19, or are they captured in the data due to being in
hospital for any reason within a certain number of days of testing
positive for Covid-19? Also, are those who are already in hospital for
something else and subsequently test positive for Covid-19, captured in
this data?”

 

Hospitalisation data captures all patients who have been hospitalised with
COVID-19.  The daily number of people, reported in the media statement, in
hospital with COVID-19 includes every active COVID-19 reported to be in a
hospital (ED & inpatient admissions) at 9am that morning.

 

Hospitalisations as reported on the case demographics page includes people
reported to the Ministry of Health as requiring hospital level care in the
EpiSurv data base and anyone hospitalised for more than 24 hours in the
Northern region district health boards. There is some lag in this
reporting and there is ongoing work to address this.

 

As you may be aware, information regarding hospitalisations is available
on the Ministry’s
website: [1]www.health.govt.nz/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-data-and-statistics/covid-19-case-demographics.
However, this does not make the distinction of hospitalised ‘with’ or
‘from’ COVID-19. You may wish to contact district health board’s (DHBs)
directly for data with a greater level of detail than is provided on the
Ministry’s website. You can find a list of DHB’s
here: [2]www.health.govt.nz/new-zealand-health-system/key-health-sector-organisations-and-people/district-health-boards/district-health-board-websites. 

 

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: [3][email address] or by calling 0800
802 602.

 

Nga mihi,

 

OIA Services

Government Services

Office of the Director-General

Ministry of Health

E: [4][email address]

 

 

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