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Kia ora,  

  

Thank you for your request for official information received on 25 May
2022 for: 

  

"I request a summary of correspondence between the Pharmacy Guild of NZ
and the Ministry of Health between 1 January 2022 and 1 May 2022.” 

  

A secondary request for official information was received on 25 May 2022
for:  

  

           “Are you please able to provide data on the number of
pharmacies in New Zealand, month-by-month from January 2019 to May 2022

Including if possible the number of closures and opening of new
pharmacies in this time.” 

  

The Ministry of Health has consolidated your requests under reference
number: H202206897.  

  

As required under the Official Information Act 1982, the Ministry will
endeavour to respond to your request no later than 23 June 2022, being 20
working days after the day your first request was received. 

  

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. 

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Kia ora  J S

Thank you for your request for official information, received on 25 May
2022 for: 

     
“ data on the number of pharmacies in New Zealand, month-by-month from
January 2019 to May 2022.Including if possible the number of closures
and opening of new pharmacies in this time. This data should be held by
the Ministry of Health as the licensing agent for pharmacies in Aotearoa
and:
- Summary of correspondence between the Pharmacy Guild of NZ and the
Ministry of Health between 1 January 2022 and 1 May 2022.

We are contacting you in accordance with section 18B of the Official
Information Act 1982 (the Act) as your request, as it is currently worded,
is for a very large volume of information. Your request may be refused
under section 18(f) of the Act as the information requested cannot be made
available without substantial collation or research. 

 If it is possible for you to narrow the scope of your request by:

* specifying a specific time frame of emails you are after.
* Are you after all emails sent to the Pharmacy Guild, including ones
that the Pharmacy Guild may have been CC'ed in, or just emails sent
directly to them?
* specifying a topic of emails you are requesting, and we may be able to
provide you with information.

Please respond by 2 June 2022 so that we can consider your refinement in
our response to your request. 

Please note, under section 15 of the Official Information Act 1982, any
clarification or amendments made to a request within seven days after the
date it is received, that request may be treated as a new request and the
time limit for the response restarts. 

We look forward to receiving your response. 

Nga mihi

OIA Services

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Kia ora JS
Please find attached the response to your request for official
information.

Ngā mihi 

  

OIA Services Team 

M[1]inistry of Health information releases 
U[2]nite against COVID-19 

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