28 November 2024
Rodney Parsons
By email:
[FYI request #28834 email]
Tēnā koe Mr Parsons
Re:
Information request
Our ref:
E24HDC01426/SHO
Thank you for your information request
of
20 October 2024 requesting “reports on
the HDC by any third-parties, as well as internal reviews, that have occurred over time.
Provide reports on changes in strategy, change in FTE and funding over time. Report
on the number and type of complaints to HDC over time, and explain how they've
changed. Report on the number and type of complaints about HDC to other agencies
over time, and how they've been addressed or changed.”
We have considered your request under the Official Information Act 1982.
Please find
enclosed the information requested. Please note that pursuant to Principle
7 of the Privacy Act 2020 you may request correction of your personal information.
Refusal of aspect of request
We refuse to provide reports on funding, FTE, strategy changes, and the number and
type of complaints made to HDC pursuant to section 18(d) of the Official Information
Act, as the information is publicly available and can be found in HDC’s annual reports
which are published on ou
r website, and in HDC’s responses to the Select Committee’s
Annual Review questions which is on the parliament website. Please find a list of links
to the past six years of responses from HDC to the Select Committee’s written
questions at the end of this letter.
We refuse to provide some information relating to review of HDC pursuant to section
18 (a) of the Official Information Act, due to an obligation of confidence.
We also refuse to provide information pursuant to section 18(d) of the Official
Information Act regarding the complaints made about HDC to other agencies as this
information is publicly available on the website of the Office of the Ombudsman.
Question about HDC appearing to ask providers to explain the health system despite
this being the role of HDC and its advisors
HDC does not expect the provider who has been complained about to explain the
health system to us, instead if a complaint is made about a provider one of the actions
HDC may take when assessing a complaint is to ask the provider to share their side of
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the story and provide clinical notes. If HDC deems it appropriate we may seek clinical
advice from an independent peer or expert advisor. The role of this advisor is to
provide HDC with clinical advice on professional and ethical standards and issues.
These independent advisors are asked if there is any real or perceived conflict of
interest prior to providing advice.
We do not seek this advice to ‘push work onto providers’, but instead to assist the
decision maker in deciding how to resolve a complaint or in the case of an
investigation, decide if there has been a breach of the Code.
You may seek a review of this decision from the Office of the Ombudsman.
Nāku iti noa, nā
Dave Corry
Senior Legal Advisor
HDC’s responses to the Select Committee’s Annual Review questions
2022/2023 Annual review responses to
Find responses here
Health Committee Written questions
Find additional response
s here
2021/2022 Annual review responses to Find respon
ses here
Health Committee written questions
2021/2020 Annual review responses to Find respon
ses here
Health Committee written questions
2020/2019 Annual review responses to Find respon
ses here
Health Committee written questions
2019/2018 Annual review responses to Find respon
ses here
Health Committee written questions
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s here
2018/2017 Annual review responses to Find respon
ses here
Health Committee written questions