Missing records in the AEFI Line listing for Comirnaty
Erika Whittome made this Official Information request to Ministry of Health
Response to this request is long overdue. By law Ministry of Health should have responded by now (details and exceptions). The requester can complain to the Ombudsman.
      From: Erika Whittome
      
    
    Dear Ministry of Health,
The AEFI listing on Medsafe's webpage for Comirnaty contains records for Adverse Events with a AEFI Case number. This is on https://www.medsafe.govt.nz/COVID-19/saf... This case number starts at AEFI-A-000000, AEFI-A-000001, AEFI-A-000002 and appears to sequentially increment by an integer number up to AEFI-A-079517 (dated Nov 2022).
Where are the following records which do not follow the sequence and appear to be gaps:
AEFI-A-000003 
AEFI-A-013886	(Aug-21) through to  AEFI-A-020096	(Aug-21) which is 6 thousand plus missing records
AEFI-A-000017 
AEFI-A-079490
AEFI-A-079493
AEFI-A-079505 
Yours faithfully,
Erika Whittome
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Kia ora
  
Thank you for your request for official information. The reference number
 for your request is: H2023020621
  
As required under the Official Information Act 1982, Manatū Hauora 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/  
  
If you have any queries related to this request, please do not hesitate to
 get in touch. 
 
Ngā mihi 
 
OIA Services Team 
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    Kia ora Erika,
 Please find attached a response to your request for information.
Ngā mihi 
  
OIA Services Team
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      From: Erika Whittome
      
    
    Dear OIA Requests,
1 Your response about medications errors:
The report was for a medication error
Are you saying that the medication error did NOT result in an adverse event? Which ID were these for please? I provided a list and you have not identified which IDs your responses apply to.
Sequence numbers get cached on nodes in a system for parallel processing and that would account for one or two records jumping the sequence. This is not a busy live transactional system in Salesforce.
However there is a sequential jump of 6000 in the date August 2021 which local caching would not explain because the jump in sequence is too high . Where are these missing records please?
Yours sincerely,
Erika Whittome
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    Kia ora Erika
  
  
 Thank you for your follow up request under the OIA. As required under the
 Official Information Act 1982, the Ministry will endeavour to respond to
 your request no later than 5 April 2023 being 20 working days after the
 day your request was received.  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 Team
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    Kia ora Erika,
 Please find attached a response to your request for information.
Ngā mihi 
  
OIA Services Team
Manatū Hauora | Ministry of Health
M[1]inistry of Health information releases 
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      From: Erika Whittome
      
    
    Dear OIA Requests,
You claim your software had a change made the jumps in sequence.  When your IT change assessment board reviewed this proposed change, was jumping sequence numbers up to 6000 records identified in the change’s impact assessment?
Yours sincerely,
Erika Whittome
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    Kia ora
  
Thank you for your request for official information. The reference number
 for your request is: H2023023138
  
As required under the Official Information Act 1982, Manatū Hauora 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/  
  
If you have any queries related to this request, please do not hesitate to
 get in touch. 
 
Ngā mihi 
 
OIA Services Team 
M[2]inistry of Health information releases 
 U[3]nite against COVID-19 
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    Tçnâ koe Erika, 
 
Thank you for your follow up request to Manatû Hauora (the Ministry of
 Health) on 4 April 2023 (H2023021449 refers). Please find a response to
 your request below: 
 
“You claim your software had a change made the jumps in sequence.  When
 your IT change assessment board reviewed this proposed change, was jumping
 sequence numbers up to 6000 records identified in the change’s impact
 assessment? 
 
No, this was not identified in the change impact assessment. It was an
 unknown effect of a change made and was fixed after it had been
 identified. 
 
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: [email address] or by calling 0800 802
 602. 
Ngâ mihi 
  
OIA Services Team
Manatû Hauora | Ministry of Health
M[1]inistry of Health information releases 
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