Dear Health New Zealand,

Can you please provide in a machine readable CSV/Excel file, a count of the number of people vaccinated against COVID19 funded by the government of NZ and those who subsequently died of any cause - as measured by MoH record level patient or payment databases.
OIA1a) This OIA asks for repeat run of Ticket Reference RT-670 - with a revised date range and one age group boundary change - so that updated numbers can be made available to the public. My understanding is that this comes from the Aotearoa Immunisation Register (AIR).

OIA1b) For reference, a definition of the columns required are described below.
The following breakdown of each column is required:
Col1) Month of Death - from the first vaccination until the end of Sept 2024 [NOTE new date range]
Col2) Age Band of Patient – 0-20 inclusive, 21-40 inclusive, 41-60 inclusive, 61-80 inclusive, 81-99 inclusive, 100+ . [NOTE the small change to the 81-99, and 100+ categories]
Col3) Last COVID-19 dose number (eg 0, 1=1st, 2=2nd, 3=1st booster, 4=2nd booster etc) using a coding scheme used within the MoH
Col4) Days between last vaccination and death – N/A where Last COVID-19 dose number is 0, else each of the following categories should be calculated from the date of the patients’s most recent vaccine: <30 days inclusive, 31 days-90 days inclusive, 91-180 days, 181 days to 365 days, 366 days to 730 days inclusive, 731 to 1095 days inclusive, over 1096 days inclusive.
Col5) Count of people matching (when Grouping on) the above 4 columns
This OIA does not seek any personal or commercial information about patients or suppliers. Where a cell count is less than 5 please mark as “S”. Where a cell count is truely zero please mark this as suich in the dataset.

OIA2) For reconciliation and benchmarking purposes, please provide a simple count of the number of COVID vaccination records in the Aotearoa Immunisation Register (AIR) system as at the end of Sept 2024.

A Reasonable OIA with Precedent
This OIA should be possible by using simple queries on the entire datasets of COVID Vax Pay per Dose and National Minimum Dataset of Hospital data - matched using the NHI number.
This OIA does not ask for the creation of any information, just a rerun of a previous request which aggregates a data set the MoH already collects as a normal course of its business.
I am a NZ citizen, resident and taxpayer and am entitled to use the OIA.

Please raise any questions ASAP and do not leave it until near the end of the 20 working day period to respond.

Yours faithfully,

Chris Johnston