Kia ora   

  

Thank you for your email to the Minister of Health and Minister for
Pacific Peoples, Hon Dr Shane Reti.    

  

We will endeavour to respond to your email as soon as possible. However,
due to the high volume of emails, we may not be able to provide you with
an individualised response. Please note:  

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Ngâ mihi

 

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Minister of Health 
 
Minister for Pacific Peoples 
Email: [email address] 

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Kia Ora Rodney

 

Thank you for your request for official information under the Official
Information Act 1982 (the Act) to the Office of Hon Dr Shane Reti. You
requested:

 

“The government have announced an incremental increase in ambulance
funding last week:

- Outline what assessments the Government, Ministry, Te Whatu Ora or
Ambulance Services have provided about their assessed resource needs for
the next and subsequent years.

- Differentiate between what is an indexed uplift and what is a funded
uplift in activity- how have ambulance services been funded for both the
inflationary pressures over recent years and how have they been funded for
increased activity?

- Outline the government's approach to addressing any long-term shortfall
in ambulance funding.

- Outline how the government funds capital expenditure for ambulance
services, how it indexes this and supports funding and planning of
ambulance stations, ambulance vehicles and essential medical equipment.

- Address how the government will fund the increased activity incurred
through the mental health withdrawal from police and transfer of that
workload to ambulance services, and what has been put in place to ensure
consumers and ambulance workers are kept safe.

- Outline whether it's usual practice for the government to require
non-governmental organisations to fundraise for incomplete funding of
essential services, and please outline what the thinking is by requiring
ambulance organisations to either fundraise or charge the public for
ambulance services.

- Outline any reviews, reports or advice the government has received
contributing to its decision to continue to require the public to pay for
ambulance services.

- Outline any reviews, reports or advice the government has received in
terms of indexing ambulance services against the impacts of the relative
undersupply of primary care in certain regions throughout the country.”

 

The reference number for your request is: SROIA-351

As required under the Official Information Act 1982, the Office will
endeavour to respond to your request no later than 20 working days after
the day your request was received. You can expect a response by 26
November 2024.

 

Under section 28(3) of the Act you have the right to ask the Ombudsman to
review any decisions made under this request. The Ombudsman may be
contacted by email at: [1][email address] or by calling 0800
802 602. 

 

 

Ngâ mihi

 

 

Office of Hon Dr Shane Reti

Minister of Health

Minister for Pacific Peoples
Email: [2][email address]

Private Bag 18041, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6160, New Zealand

 

 

 

 

 

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Kia ora Rodney

 

Thank you for your request for official information under the Official
Information Act 1982 (the Act) to the Office of Hon Dr Shane Reti. You
requested:

 

“The government have announced an incremental increase in ambulance
funding last week:

- Outline what assessments the Government, Ministry, Te Whatu Ora or
Ambulance Services have provided about their assessed resource needs for
the next and subsequent years.

- Differentiate between what is an indexed uplift and what is a funded
uplift in activity- how have ambulance services been funded for both the
inflationary pressures over recent years and how have they been funded for
increased activity?

- Outline the government's approach to addressing any long-term shortfall
in ambulance funding.

- Outline how the government funds capital expenditure for ambulance
services, how it indexes this and supports funding and planning of
ambulance stations, ambulance vehicles and essential medical equipment.

- Address how the government will fund the increased activity incurred
through the mental health withdrawal from police and transfer of that
workload to ambulance services, and what has been put in place to ensure
consumers and ambulance workers are kept safe.

- Outline whether it's usual practice for the government to require
non-governmental organisations to fundraise for incomplete funding of
essential services, and please outline what the thinking is by requiring
ambulance organisations to either fundraise or charge the public for
ambulance services.

- Outline any reviews, reports or advice the government has received
contributing to its decision to continue to require the public to pay for
ambulance services.

- Outline any reviews, reports or advice the government has received in
terms of indexing ambulance services against the impacts of the relative
undersupply of primary care in certain regions throughout the country.”

 

The information you have requested is more closely connected with the
portfolio of Hon Casey Costello, Associate Minister of Health. Therefore,
this office has decided to transfer your request to Hon Costello under
section 14(b)(ii) of the Act. You can expect a response from Hon Costello
in due course.

 

Under section 28(3) of the Act, you have the right to ask the Ombudsman to
review any decisions made under this request. The Ombudsman may be
contacted by email at: [1][email address] or by calling 0800
802 602.

 

Ngâ mihi

 

 

Office of Hon Dr Shane Reti

Minister of Health

Minister for Pacific Peoples
Email: [2][email address]

Private Bag 18041, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6160, New Zealand

 

 

From: Shane Reti (MIN) <[3][email address]>
Sent: Friday, 1 November 2024 11:23 am
To: Rodney Parsons <[4][FOI #28960 email]>
Subject: SROIA-351: Acknowledgement of request for official information:
Ambulance Services

 

Kia Ora Rodney

 

Thank you for your request for official information under the Official
Information Act 1982 (the Act) to the Office of Hon Dr Shane Reti. You
requested:

 

“The government have announced an incremental increase in ambulance
funding last week:

- Outline what assessments the Government, Ministry, Te Whatu Ora or
Ambulance Services have provided about their assessed resource needs for
the next and subsequent years.

- Differentiate between what is an indexed uplift and what is a funded
uplift in activity- how have ambulance services been funded for both the
inflationary pressures over recent years and how have they been funded for
increased activity?

- Outline the government's approach to addressing any long-term shortfall
in ambulance funding.

- Outline how the government funds capital expenditure for ambulance
services, how it indexes this and supports funding and planning of
ambulance stations, ambulance vehicles and essential medical equipment.

- Address how the government will fund the increased activity incurred
through the mental health withdrawal from police and transfer of that
workload to ambulance services, and what has been put in place to ensure
consumers and ambulance workers are kept safe.

- Outline whether it's usual practice for the government to require
non-governmental organisations to fundraise for incomplete funding of
essential services, and please outline what the thinking is by requiring
ambulance organisations to either fundraise or charge the public for
ambulance services.

- Outline any reviews, reports or advice the government has received
contributing to its decision to continue to require the public to pay for
ambulance services.

- Outline any reviews, reports or advice the government has received in
terms of indexing ambulance services against the impacts of the relative
undersupply of primary care in certain regions throughout the country.”

 

The reference number for your request is: SROIA-351

As required under the Official Information Act 1982, the Office will
endeavour to respond to your request no later than 20 working days after
the day your request was received. You can expect a response by 26
November 2024.

 

Under section 28(3) of the Act you have the right to ask the Ombudsman to
review any decisions made under this request. The Ombudsman may be
contacted by email at: [5][email address] or by calling 0800
802 602. 

 

 

Ngâ mihi

 

 

Office of Hon Dr Shane Reti

Minister of Health

Minister for Pacific Peoples
Email: [6][email address]

Private Bag 18041, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6160, New Zealand

 

 

 

 

 

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Dear Rodney,

 

Thank you for your request for official information under the Official
Information Act 1982 (the Act) that was transferred to the Office of
Associate Minster for Health Hon Casey Costello. You requested:

 

“The government have announced an incremental increase in ambulance
funding last week:

- Outline what assessments the Government, Ministry, Te Whatu Ora or
Ambulance Services have provided about their assessed resource needs for
the next and subsequent years.

- Differentiate between what is an indexed uplift and what is a funded
uplift in activity- how have ambulance services been funded for both the
inflationary pressures over recent years and how have they been funded for
increased activity?

- Outline the government's approach to addressing any long-term shortfall
in ambulance funding.

- Outline how the government funds capital expenditure for ambulance
services, how it indexes this and supports funding and planning of
ambulance stations, ambulance vehicles and essential medical equipment.

- Address how the government will fund the increased activity incurred
through the mental health withdrawal from police and transfer of that
workload to ambulance services, and what has been put in place to ensure
consumers and ambulance workers are kept safe.

- Outline whether it's usual practice for the government to require
non-governmental organisations to fundraise for incomplete funding of
essential services, and please outline what the thinking is by requiring
ambulance organisations to either fundraise or charge the public for
ambulance services.

- Outline any reviews, reports or advice the government has received
contributing to its decision to continue to require the public to pay for
ambulance services.

- Outline any reviews, reports or advice the government has received in
terms of indexing ambulance services against the impacts of the relative
undersupply of primary care in certain regions throughout the country.”

 

The information you have requested is more closely connected with Health
NZ. Therefore, this office has decided to transfer your request to Health
NZ under section 14(b)(ii) of the Act. You can expect a response from them
in due course.

 

Under section 28(3) of the Act, you have the right to ask the Ombudsman to
review any decisions made under this request. The Ombudsman may be
contacted by email at: [1][email address] or by calling 0800
802 602.

 

 

Regards

 

Office of Hon Casey Costello 

 

Office of Hon Casey Costello

Minister of Customs | Minister for Seniors

Associate Minister of Immigration | Associate Minister of Health |
Associate Minister of Police

2.054 PH, Parliament Buildings,Wellington 6160, New Zealand

E: [2][email address]

 

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From: Shane Reti (MIN) <[3][email address]>
Sent: Tuesday, 12 November 2024 12:36 PM
To: [4][FOI #28960 email]
Subject: Transfer of your request for official information: SROIA-351

 

Kia ora Rodney

 

Thank you for your request for official information under the Official
Information Act 1982 (the Act) to the Office of Hon Dr Shane Reti. You
requested:

 

“The government have announced an incremental increase in ambulance
funding last week:

- Outline what assessments the Government, Ministry, Te Whatu Ora or
Ambulance Services have provided about their assessed resource needs for
the next and subsequent years.

- Differentiate between what is an indexed uplift and what is a funded
uplift in activity- how have ambulance services been funded for both the
inflationary pressures over recent years and how have they been funded for
increased activity?

- Outline the government's approach to addressing any long-term shortfall
in ambulance funding.

- Outline how the government funds capital expenditure for ambulance
services, how it indexes this and supports funding and planning of
ambulance stations, ambulance vehicles and essential medical equipment.

- Address how the government will fund the increased activity incurred
through the mental health withdrawal from police and transfer of that
workload to ambulance services, and what has been put in place to ensure
consumers and ambulance workers are kept safe.

- Outline whether it's usual practice for the government to require
non-governmental organisations to fundraise for incomplete funding of
essential services, and please outline what the thinking is by requiring
ambulance organisations to either fundraise or charge the public for
ambulance services.

- Outline any reviews, reports or advice the government has received
contributing to its decision to continue to require the public to pay for
ambulance services.

- Outline any reviews, reports or advice the government has received in
terms of indexing ambulance services against the impacts of the relative
undersupply of primary care in certain regions throughout the country.”

 

The information you have requested is more closely connected with the
portfolio of Hon Casey Costello, Associate Minister of Health. Therefore,
this office has decided to transfer your request to Hon Costello under
section 14(b)(ii) of the Act. You can expect a response from Hon Costello
in due course.

 

Under section 28(3) of the Act, you have the right to ask the Ombudsman to
review any decisions made under this request. The Ombudsman may be
contacted by email at: [5][email address] or by calling 0800
802 602.

 

Ngâ mihi

 

 

Office of Hon Dr Shane Reti

Minister of Health

Minister for Pacific Peoples
Email: [6][email address]

Private Bag 18041, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6160, New Zealand

 

 

From: Shane Reti (MIN) <[7][email address]>
Sent: Friday, 1 November 2024 11:23 am
To: Rodney Parsons <[8][FOI #28960 email]>
Subject: SROIA-351: Acknowledgement of request for official information:
Ambulance Services

 

Kia Ora Rodney

 

Thank you for your request for official information under the Official
Information Act 1982 (the Act) to the Office of Hon Dr Shane Reti. You
requested:

 

“The government have announced an incremental increase in ambulance
funding last week:

- Outline what assessments the Government, Ministry, Te Whatu Ora or
Ambulance Services have provided about their assessed resource needs for
the next and subsequent years.

- Differentiate between what is an indexed uplift and what is a funded
uplift in activity- how have ambulance services been funded for both the
inflationary pressures over recent years and how have they been funded for
increased activity?

- Outline the government's approach to addressing any long-term shortfall
in ambulance funding.

- Outline how the government funds capital expenditure for ambulance
services, how it indexes this and supports funding and planning of
ambulance stations, ambulance vehicles and essential medical equipment.

- Address how the government will fund the increased activity incurred
through the mental health withdrawal from police and transfer of that
workload to ambulance services, and what has been put in place to ensure
consumers and ambulance workers are kept safe.

- Outline whether it's usual practice for the government to require
non-governmental organisations to fundraise for incomplete funding of
essential services, and please outline what the thinking is by requiring
ambulance organisations to either fundraise or charge the public for
ambulance services.

- Outline any reviews, reports or advice the government has received
contributing to its decision to continue to require the public to pay for
ambulance services.

- Outline any reviews, reports or advice the government has received in
terms of indexing ambulance services against the impacts of the relative
undersupply of primary care in certain regions throughout the country.”

 

The reference number for your request is: SROIA-351

As required under the Official Information Act 1982, the Office will
endeavour to respond to your request no later than 20 working days after
the day your request was received. You can expect a response by 26
November 2024.

 

Under section 28(3) of the Act you have the right to ask the Ombudsman to
review any decisions made under this request. The Ombudsman may be
contacted by email at: [9][email address] or by calling 0800
802 602. 

 

 

Ngâ mihi

 

 

Office of Hon Dr Shane Reti

Minister of Health

Minister for Pacific Peoples
Email: [10][email address]

Private Bag 18041, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6160, New Zealand

 

 

 

 

 

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Tēnā koe, 

 

Thank you for contacting Health NZ, Te Whatu Ora. This is an automatic
reply to confirm that we have received your email.  Depending on the
nature of your request you may not receive a response for up to 20 working
days.  We will try to respond to your query as quickly as possible.

 

 

Ngā mihi

 

Health NZ, Te Whatu Ora.

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Kia ora Rodney,

Thank you for your request for official information, which was transferred
to us by the office of Hon Casey Costello on 12 November 2024, for: 

     The government have announced an incremental increase in ambulance
funding last week:

- Outline what assessments the Government, Ministry, Te Whatu Ora or
Ambulance Services have provided about their assessed resource needs for
the next and subsequent years.

- Differentiate between what is an indexed uplift and what is a funded
uplift in activity- how have ambulance services been funded for both the
inflationary pressures over recent years and how have they been funded for
increased activity?

- Outline the government's approach to addressing any long-term shortfall
in ambulance funding.

- Outline how the government funds capital expenditure for ambulance
services, how it indexes this and supports funding and planning of
ambulance stations, ambulance vehicles and essential medical equipment.

- Address how the government will fund the increased activity incurred
through the mental health withdrawal from police and transfer of that
workload to ambulance services, and what has been put in place to ensure
consumers and ambulance workers are kept safe.

- Outline whether it's usual practice for the government to require
non-governmental organisations to fundraise for incomplete funding of
essential services, and please outline what the thinking is by requiring
ambulance organisations to either fundraise or charge the public for
ambulance services.

- Outline any reviews, reports or advice the government has received
contributing to its decision to continue to require the public to pay for
ambulance services.

- Outline any reviews, reports or advice the government has received in
terms of indexing ambulance services against the impacts of the relative
undersupply of primary care in certain regions throughout the country.”

In order to provide you with the information requested, could you please
refine your request to a specific timeframe, in order for us to collate
the information in a manner that is feasibly retrievable. 

For example, are you asking for information from the current financial
year, or past five years, or a different time period?

Please get back to us by COB Friday 22 November.

Please note, under section 15 of the Official Information Act 1982, any
clarification or amendments made to a request within seven days after the
date it is received, that request may be treated as a new request and the
time limit for the response restarts. 

We look forward to receiving your response. 

Ngā mihi, 
 
Dave
Government Services Team

 

 

 

 

 

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Kia ora Rodney,
 

Thank you for your email of 19 November 2024, asking for the following
information under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act):

 

- Outline what assessments the Government, Ministry, Te Whatu Ora or 
Ambulance Services have provided about their assessed resource needs for 
the next and subsequent years.

 

 - Differentiate between what is an indexed uplift and what is a funded 
uplift in activity- how have ambulance services been funded for both
the inflationary pressures over recent years and how have they been funded
for  increased activity?

 

 - Outline the government's approach to addressing any long-term
shortfall  in ambulance funding.

 

 - Outline how the government funds capital expenditure for ambulance 
services, how it indexes this and supports funding and planning of 
ambulance stations, ambulance vehicles and essential medical equipment.

 

 - Address how the government will fund the increased activity incurred 
through the mental health withdrawal from police and transfer of that 
workload to ambulance services, and what has been put in place to ensure 
consumers and ambulance workers are kept safe.

 

 - Outline whether it's usual practice for the government to require 
non-governmental organisations to fundraise for incomplete funding of 
essential services, and please outline what the thinking is by requiring 
ambulance organisations to either fundraise or charge the public for 
ambulance services.

 

 - Outline any reviews, reports or advice the government has received 
contributing to its decision to continue to require the public to pay for 
ambulance services.

 

 - Outline any reviews, reports or advice the government has received in 
terms of indexing ambulance services against the impacts of the relative 
undersupply of primary care in certain regions throughout the country.

 

An appropriate timeframe relevant to the questions asked, at your
discretion.

 

This email is to let you know that Health NZ needs more time to make a
decision on your request.

 

The Act requires that we advise you of our decision on your request no
later than 20 working days after the day we received your request.
Unfortunately, it will not be possible to meet that time limit and we are
therefore writing to notify you of an extension of the time to make our
decision, to 24 January 2025.

 

This extension is required because the consultations necessary to make a
decision on your request are such that a proper response cannot reasonably
be made within the original time limit.

 

If you have any questions, please contact us
at [1][email address]

 

If you are not happy with this extension, 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.

 

Ngā mihi, 
 

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora 

 

Government Services

Office of the Chief Executive 

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora

 

 

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