05 April 2023
Jai Ganesh
[FYI request #22134 email]
Tēnā koe Jai,
Your request for official information reference: HNZ00014190
Thank you for your email of 23 March 2023 asking for the following which has been considered
under the Of icial Information Act 1982 (the Act). You have specifically requested:
“Please provide all hospitalisations and deaths information broken down by age group and
covid vaccination status from 2020-2023.”
The hospitalisation and death data held by Te Whatu Ora does not include any information on
vaccination status. To consider linkage between vaccination data this would requires substantial
manual collation to locate, analyse and review. As such, we refuse your request under section
18(f) of the Act. The greater public interest is in the effective and efficient administration of the
public service.
Te Whatu Ora has considered whether we would be able to respond to your request given extra
time, or the ability to charge for the information requested. We have concluded that, in either case,
our ability to undertake its work would stil be prejudiced.
How to get in contact
If you have any questions, you can contact us at
[email address].
If you are not happy with this response, you have the right to make a complaint to the
Ombudsman. Information about how to do this is available at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or
by phoning 0800 802 602.
Nāku iti noa, nā
Sasha Wood
Interim Lead OIA & Proactive Release
Government Partnership and Risk
TeWhatuOra.govt.nz
Te Whatu Ora, PO Box 793,
Wel ington 6140, New Zealand