Southern District Health Board
Dunedin Hospital
201 Great King Street
Private Bag 1921
DUNEDIN 9054
Chief Executive Officer
Phone 03-476 9456 Fax 03-476 9450
29 June 2022
Emma Vitz
Email: fyi-request-19607-52a6afd1@reque
Dear Ms Vitz
Re:
Official Information Act Request # 2430
I refer to your Official Information Act request received on 16 June 2022 in which you specifically
requested the fol owing:
I would like to request the fol owing information for each of the DHBs in New Zealand, split by
DHB.
1. The total number of procedures outsourced by year (including the year to date) for the past
five years.
2017/18
2018/19
2019/20
2020/21
2021/22
Forecast
to May
to June
YTD
2022
Outsourced 780
964
1179
1,560
1,461
1,596
cases
2. For each year, provide a breakdown of the type of procedure.
Please refer to the table below.
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3. For each year, provide the total spend on outsourced elective surgeries.
Southern DHB outsourcing expenditure
2018
2019
2020
2021 2022 (11 months) 2022 (extrapolated)
$5,019,802 $7,176,078 $7,385,063 $10,541,060
$12,126,706
$13,229,133
4. For each year, provide the amount that these surgeries would have cost the DHBs if they had
not been outsourced.
Due to the complex nature of pricing an operation, which includes many variables and is affected
by the DHB’s economies of scale, we’re not able to confidently provide you with an accurate
answer to this question.
You have the right to seek an investigation and review of our decision by the Ombudsman. The
Ombudsman's Office can be contacted on 0800 802 602 or on-line at
http://www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/.
Yours sincerely
Chris Fleming
Chief Executive Officer
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