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Kia ora Julia
 
Thank  you for your request for official information, received on 2 August
2024 for: 
 
I would like to know what the:
1) testing protocols
2) budget for testing
3) expenditure for testing
 
for Covid plus respiratory illnesses in public hospitals were in the last
budget period and the current budget period. Please provide the financial
information I am requesting per hospital as well as provided overall. Are
there any projections for the next budget period?
 
In order to provide you with the information requested, could you please
refine your request to the information Health NZ may hold in order for us
to assess whether collation of the information is feasible. Please note
that as it is currently worded, your request is likely to require a
significant amount of collation and consultation across 20 Health NZ
districts/local areas and Health NZ would need to divert personnel from
their core duties. While projects to standardise data collection and
reporting across Aotearoa are underway at Health NZ,  these will take time
and they are not yet in a position to produce data, particularly in the
year recorded by local districts/areas.
 
To assist you, we have provided examples below of how your request for
information may be limited to produce information we hold. We believe
these examples would satisfy your request:  
 
 

* - limit to single Health NZ district or local area; and/or 

* - limit to information that we can provide at a national level –
without commissioning to multiple local areas.    

 
Please note that some of what you seek is publicly available - COVID-19
Testing Protocols for example. The current budget period is the 2023/24
financial year and the current national testing protocols for COVID-19
are: [1]Operational COVID-19 Testing Guidance 
 
Please also note there are many other respiratory illnesses besides
COVID-19. Asthma, bronchiectasis, childhood bronchiolitis, childhood
pneumonia and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are
examples. Could you also please consider refining your request to
information Health NZ may hold about a specific respiratory illness. As
above, please refine this to Health NZ information rather than hospital
information.
 
We appreciate you are under no obligation to amend your request, but
requests that require substantial collation may be refused under section
18(f) of the Act.  We want to work with you to avoid this and ensure we
are able to provide a response that best meets your needs.   

  

Please let us know before 16 August 2024 whether you are prepared to amend
or clarify your request and, if so, how. Please note, if you do amend or
clarify your request, this will be considered as a new request for the
purpose of calculating the maximum statutory timeframe for response. 

 

Ngā mihi, 

Mark Fenwick
Government Services
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Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora

 
 
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