Te Whatu Ora Taranaki
Private Bag 2016
New Plymouth 4620
New Zealand
Telephone 06 753 6139
Fax: 06 753 7770
Email
: [email address]
www.tdhb.org.nz
Taranaki Base Hospital
Private Bag 2016
New Plymouth 4620
New Zealand
Phone: 06 753 6139
Fax: 06 753 7710
Hāwera Hospital
8 July 2022
Post Office Box 98
Hāwera
New Zealand
Phone: 06 278-9929
Fax: 06 278 9910
Stratford Health Centre Phone: 06 765 7189
Ms Emma Vitz
Opunake Medical Centre
Via Email
: [FYI request #19607 email]
(CoastalCare)
Phone: 06 761 7324
Pātea Health Centre
Phone: 06 273 8088
Waitara Health Centre
Dear Ms Vitz
Phone: 06 754 7150
Mōkau Health Centre
Phone: 06 752 9723
Re:
Official Information Act
I am responding on behalf of Te Whatu Ora Taranaki to your OIA request of 7 June 2022. You have requested the
following information:
1. The total number of procedures outsourced by year (including the year to date) for the past five years.
Please see
Table 1 in the
Appendix.
2. For each year, provide a breakdown of the type of procedure.
Please see
Table 2 in the
Appendix.
3. For each year, provide the total spend on outsourced elective surgeries.
Please see
Table 3 in the
Appendix.
4. For each year, provide the amount that these surgeries would have cost the DHBs if they have not been
outsourced.
Please see
Table 4 in the
Appendix.
Please note: The outsourced price does not include administration and other overheads born by Te Whatu Ora
Taranaki.
Please note that this response, or an edited version of this response, may be published on the Te Whatu Ora Taranaki
website no less than one week after the response has been provided to you. Any personal or identifying information
will be redacted from any response published online. Te Whatu Ora Taranaki will endeavour to resolve any concerns
you should raise but, subject to any legal grounds for withholding, ultimately reserves the right to publish any
information.
I trust the above information answers your OIA request.
Kind regards
Katy Sheffield
Acting Chief Operating Officer
APPENDIX
Table 1
Total number
Total number other
Year
Private
DHB
2017-2018
0
0
2018-2019
0
0
2019-2020
204
0
2020-2021
273
35
2021-2022
466
0
Table 2
Year
Specialty
Procedures carried out
Total
2019-
ENT
ADENOIDECTOMY WITHOUT TONSILLECTOMY
156
2020
CORRECTION OF AUDITORY CANAL STENOSIS
EXAM NASAL CAVITY &/OR POSTNASAL SPACE
EXCISION OF LESION OF TONGUE
EXCISION OF LESION SSCT, EAR
EXCISION OF LESION SSCT, LIP
EXCISION OF SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND
FIBREOPTIC EXAMINATION OF PHARYNX
INSPECTION TYMPANIC MEMBRANE, BILATERAL
INSPECTION TYMPANIC MEMBRANE, UNILATERAL
LARYNGOSCOPY
MICROLARYNGOSCOPY
MYRINGOPLASTY POSTAURAL OR ENDAURAL APPR
MYRINGOPLASTY W OSSICULAR CHAIN RECON
NASENDOSCOPY
PANENDOSCOPY TO DUODENUM WITH BIOPSY
PARTIAL EXCISION OF PAROTID GLAND
R/O EXOSTOSIS FROM EXT AUDITORY MEATUS
REMOVAL OF NASAL POLYP
REVISION SCAR FACE <= 3CM IN LENGTH
SEPTOPLASTY
TONSILLECTOMY WITH ADENOIDECTOMY
TONSILLECTOMY WITHOUT ADENOIDECTOMY
GROMMETS
Orthopaedics
HEMIARTHROPLASTY OF KNEE
48
TOTAL ARTHROPLASTY OF HIP, BILATERAL
TOTAL ARTHROPLASTY OF HIP, UNILATERAL
TOTAL ARTHROPLASTY OF KNEE, UNILATERAL
2020-
ENT
ADENOIDECTOMY WITHOUT TONSILLECTOMY
223
2021
CAUTERISATION PERFORATED TYMPANIC MEMB
ENDOSCOPIC BALLOON DILATION OESOPHAGUS
EXAM NASAL CAVITY &/OR POSTNASAL SPC, BX
EXCISION LESION OF SSCT, NECK
EXCISION OF LESION SSCT, EAR
EXCISION OF LESION SSCT, NOSE
EXCISION OF PRE-AURICULAR SINUS
INSPECTION TYMPANIC MEMBRANE, BILATERAL
INSPECTION TYMPANIC MEMBRANE, UNILATERAL
LARYNGOSCOPY
MICROLARYNGOSCOPY
MODIFIED RAD MASTOIDECTOMY W MYRGOPLY
MYRINGOPLASTY POSTAURAL OR ENDAURAL APPR
MYRINGOPLASTY W OSSICULAR CHAIN RECON
Year
Specialty
Procedures carried out
Total
NASENDOSCOPY
OSSICULAR CHAIN RECONSTRUCTION
PANENDOSCOPY TO DUODENUM WITH BIOPSY
PARTIAL TURBINECTOMY, BILATERAL
R/O EXOSTOSIS FROM EXT AUDITORY MEATUS
R/O FB FROM AUDITORY CANAL WO INCISION
SEPTOPLASTY
TONSILLECTOMY WITH ADENOIDECTOMY
TONSILLECTOMY WITHOUT ADENOIDECTOMY
GROMMETS
General Surgery
LAP REPAIR INGUINAL HERNIA, UNILATERAL
9
LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY
REPAIR OF INGUINAL HERNIA, UNILATERAL
REPAIR OF OTHER ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA
REPAIR OF UMBILICAL HERNIA
Orthopaedic
HEMIARTHROPLASTY OF KNEE
58
TOTAL ARTHROPLASTY OF HIP, BILATERAL
TOTAL ARTHROPLASTY OF HIP, UNILATERAL
TOTAL ARTHROPLASTY OF KNEE, UNILATERAL
Urology
EXCISION OF HYDROCELE
5
MALE CIRCUMCISION
Gynaecology
HYSTEROSCOPY
13
TOTAL ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY
REPAIR OF CYSTOCELLE
VAGINAL REPAIR FOR STRESS INCONTINENCE
DIAGNOSTIC LAPAROSCOPY AND CYSTECOMY
TOTAL LAPAROSCOPIC HYSTERECTOMY
2021-
ENT
ADENOIDECTOMY WITHOUT TONSILLECTOMY
111
2022
CORRECTION OF AUDITORY CANAL STENOSIS
EXAM NASAL CAVITY &/OR POSTNASAL SPACE
EXCISION OF LESION OF TONGUE
EXCISION OF LESION SSCT, EAR
EXCISION OF LESION SSCT, LIP
EXCISION OF SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND
FIBREOPTIC EXAMINATION OF PHARYNX
INSPECTION TYMPANIC MEMBRANE, BILATERAL
INSPECTION TYMPANIC MEMBRANE, UNILATERAL
LARYNGOSCOPY
MICROLARYNGOSCOPY
MYRINGOPLASTY POSTAURAL OR ENDAURAL APPR
MYRINGOPLASTY W OSSICULAR CHAIN RECON
NASENDOSCOPY
PANENDOSCOPY TO DUODENUM WITH BIOPSY
PARTIAL EXCISION OF PAROTID GLAND
R/O EXOSTOSIS FROM EXT AUDITORY MEATUS
REMOVAL OF NASAL POLYP
REVISION SCAR FACE <= 3CM IN LENGTH
SEPTOPLASTY
TONSILLECTOMY WITH ADENOIDECTOMY
TONSILLECTOMY WITHOUT ADENOIDECTOMY
GROMMETS
General surgery
CHOLECYSTECTOMY
125
EXCISION OF LESION SSCT, LEG
LAP REPAIR INGUINAL HERNIA, BILATERAL
LAP REPAIR INGUINAL HERNIA, UNILATERAL
LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY
REPAIR OF EPIGASTRIC HERNIA
Year
Specialty
Procedures carried out
Total
REPAIR OF INGUINAL HERNIA, BILATERAL
REPAIR OF INGUINAL HERNIA, UNILATERAL
REPAIR OF UMBILICAL HERNIA
REPAIR OTHER ABDO WALL HERNIA W PROSTH
MASTECTOMY
Gynaecology
LAPAROSCOPIC OOPHORECTOMY, UNILATERAL
5
LAPAROSCOPIC SALPINGECTOMY, BILATERAL
LAPAROSCOPIC SALPINGO-OOPHORECTOMY, UNI
Orthopaedics
ARTHROSCOPIC RECONSTRUCTION OF SHOULDER
135
HEMIARTHROPLASTY OF KNEE
PATELLOFEMORAL STABILISATION
TOTAL ARTHROPLASTY OF HIP, BILATERAL
TOTAL ARTHROPLASTY OF HIP, UNILATERAL
TOTAL ARTHROPLASTY OF KNEE, BILATERAL
TOTAL ARTHROPLASTY OF KNEE, UNILATERAL
Urology
CYSTOSCOPY
90
ENDOSC URETC CATH FLUOROSC IMAGE UT BIL
ENDOSC URETC CATH FLUOROSC IMAGE UT UNI
ENDOSCOPIC BIOPSY OF BLADDER
ENDOSCOPIC REMOVAL OF URETERIC STENT
EPIDIDYMECTOMY, UNILATERAL
EXCISION OF EPIDIDYMAL CYST, UNILATERAL
EXCISION OF HYDROCELE
MALE CIRCUMCISION
PERCUTANEOUS [NEEDLE] BIOPSY OF PROSTATE
URETEROSCOPY
TURP
Table 3
Year
Total Spend
2019-2020
$1,304,480.47
2020-2021
$1,812,425.90
2021-2022
$4,094,470.90
Table 4
Year
DHB price
2019-2020
$1,705,157.98
2020-2021
$2,824,546.74
2021-2022
$5,578,147.89
