Missing records in the AEFI Line listing for Comirnaty
Erika Whittome made this Official Information request to Ministry of Health
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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 Erika,
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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
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From: Erika Whittome <[FOI #21874 email]>;
Received: Wed Mar 08 2023 06:11:58 GMT+1300 (New Zealand Daylight Time)
To: OIA Requests <[email address]>; OIA <[email address]>;
Subject: Re: Response to your request for official information, ref:
H2023020621
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,
Please find attached a response to your request for information.
Ngā mihi
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Kia ora Erika,
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Ngā mihi
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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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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
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