CORPORATE OFFICE
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CHRISTCHURCH 8011
15 June 2022
J Thomas-Maude
Email: [email address]; [FYI request #19530 email];
Dear J Thomas-Maude
RE Official Information Act request CDHB 10887
I refer to your email dated 31 May 2022 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act
from Canterbury DHB. Specifically:
1. The total number of PGY1 House Officer positions filled by the ACE matching system for each year between
2014 and 2022, and a breakdown of these by country of training of the candidate (e.g. New Zealand,
Australia).
2. The total number of PGY1 House Officer positions filled in by NZREX graduates for each year between 2014
and 2022.
3. The total number of PGY1 House Officer positions filled in by candidates from a Comparable Health System
(e.g. U.K., Ireland, U.S.A., Canada etc.) for each year between 2014 and 2022.
4. The total number of PGY1 House Officer positions that were available and advertised outside of the ACE
matching system for each year between 2014 and 2022.
Please refer to
Table one (below) for PGY1 House Officer positions.
Table one:
Positions advertised
Year
Positions filled through ACE
Positions filled by NZREX Positions filled by IMG
outside of ACE
2014
42
0
0
0
2015
44
3
0
3
2016
47
2
0
2
2017
48
0
0
0
2018
52
1
0
1
2019
53
0
0
0
2020
53
0
0
0
2021
53
1
0
1
2022
66
2
0
2
Note: We are declining to provide a breakdown of the country of training of the candidates pursuant to section
18(f) of the Official Information Act. This information is not held in an easily retrievable electronic system and we
would need to do a manual search which would take substantial time and resource.
You may, under section 28(3) of the Official Information Act, seek a review of our decision to withhold information
by the Ombudsman. Information about how to make a complaint is available a
t www.ombudsman.parliament.nz;
or Freephone 0800 802 602.
Please note that this response, or an edited version of this response, may be published on the Canterbury DHB
website after your receipt of this response.
Yours sincerely
Ralph La Salle
Senior Manager, OIAs
Canterbury DHB & West Coast DHB