24 January 2025
Chris Johnston
[FYI request #28619 email] Tēnā koe Chris
Your request for official information, reference: HNZ00075154
Thank you for your email of 2 October 2024, following on from your earlier request HNZ00067356,
asking Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora for information under the Official Information Act 1982
(the Act):
Response
Please find HNZ00061156 embedded below, which contains the data “as is”. As stated previously,
the data should not have been released without including the relevant appropriate caveats.
The apparent large rise over the last six years is due to incomplete data collection which did not
include all districts, not an actual rise in chest pain ED presentations.
As noted in our response HNZ00067356, 2024 is the only year that all districts at Health NZ were
recording this data in this format and only a few districts (two-four) were contributing to this dataset
prior to 2020.
Additionally, not all 20 districts use the same code for recording this data, so no complete and
meaningful data set is available.
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In regard to consultation, we do not consider that consulting would have assisted, as there is no
obligation under the Act to consider consulting the requester on requests for information that we do
not hold. Section 18B of the Act relates to refusals under section 18(e) or 18(f), not 18(g).
The remainder of the HNZ00061156 response is included below for your reference.
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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
Head of Government Services
Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora
TeWhatuOra.govt.nz
Health NZ, PO Box 793,
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Wellington 6140, New Zealand