Cancer and Maternal and Neonatal stats since 2019
Matthew Shelton made this Official Information request to Ministry of Health
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From: Matthew Shelton
Dear Ministry of Health,
Please supply the most up to date data on cancers, and maternal & neonatal morbidity and mortality statistics, beyond the publicly posted data that seems to be only up to 2019.
Clearly the lag is unconscionable and releasing up to date data will go a long way to informing and hopefully reassuring the NZ public.
Yours faithfully,
Dr Matthew Shelton
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Tēnā koe Dr Shelton,
Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the
Act) to the Ministry of Health-Manatū Hauora on 2 May 2024.
The Ministry does not hold any information relating to your request;
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From: Matthew Shelton <[FOI #26610 email]>
Sent: Thursday, 2 May 2024 22:37
To: OIA Requests <[email address]>
Subject: Official Information request - Cancer and Maternal and Neonatal
stats since 2019
Dear Ministry of Health,
Please supply the most up to date data on cancers, and maternal & neonatal
morbidity and mortality statistics, beyond the publicly posted data that
seems to be only up to 2019.
Clearly the lag is unconscionable and releasing up to date data will go a
long way to informing and hopefully reassuring the NZ public.
Yours faithfully,
Dr Matthew Shelton
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Kia ora Matthew,
Thank you for your request for information regarding Cancer and Maternal
and Neonatal stats since 2019 on 6 May 2024. Please find attached our
response to your request.
If you have any questions, please get in touch at
[1][email address].
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complaint to the Ombudsman. Information about how to do this is available
at [2]www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or by phoning 0800 802 602.
Ngā mihi,
Government Services
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From: Matthew Shelton
Dear hnzOIA,
The refusal is unwarranted. Very few cancer deaths will require a coroner's enquiry. I am asking for raw numbers at the least, plus the diagnosis and age data you will have. You will have the majority of the cause of death codes as cancer deaths are clear at the time. The cause of death is obvious. Similarly, miscarriage and most pregnancy outcomes will not be held up by the coroner, and the data is collected and made available for service providers to audit and plan service delivery
Yours sincerely,
Matthew Shelton
From: Matthew Shelton
Dear Gaynor Bradfield at hnzOIA,
There is much strong anecdotal evidence from New Zealand and overseas, as well as insurance industry data and chemotherapy expenditure data, all pointing to a very significant rise in cancer incidence, type, rapidity, as well as a change in the demographic towards younger people, starting in 2021. This should have been anticipated following the release of a novel gene therapy using modified RNA designed to stay much longer in the body, produce frameshifted transcription errors resulting in mutant 'nonsense' proteins, and containing promoter code from a known cancer-causing virus, SV40. All this information has been provided to Medsafe and relevant Ministers.
Your previous refusal to provide up to date data is illogical, on the grounds you gave. Hardly any cancer deaths get referred to the coroner, so the vast majority will have been coded already. To withhold important public interest data on these grounds does not instill public confidence in TWO's transparency and trustworthiness. Timely release according to OIA legislation could avoid accusations of any cover-up, for instance.
Under the OIA,
1. please provide all the data previously requested, however raw, up to the present, as previously requested, including still birth and miscarriage data, which never involve the coroner in the latter case, and rarely in the former.
2. please provide any internal TWO and government correspondence regarding this request so far.
Yours sincerely,
Matthew Shelton
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Kia ora Matthew,
Thank you for your request for information regarding still birth and
miscarriage data on 19 July 2024. Please find attached our response to
your request.
If you have any questions, please get in touch at
[1][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 [2]www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or by phoning 0800 802 602.
Ngā mihi,
Alex
Government Services
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