Police Withdrawal
Lauren Doocy made this Official Information request to Matt Doocey
The request was partially successful.
From: Lauren Doocy
Dear Matt Doocey,
Police withdraw from providing mental health responses on Monday 4th November 2024.
Provide:
- The minister's plan to adequately resource mental health and ambulance services, including the breakdown of additional budget allocation for personal protective equipment, training and education, additional funding for increased workload, and funding assigned to legal protection and aid for ambulance workers.
- Briefings the minister has received concerning ambulance and mental health services preparedness.
- Confirm whether you as Minister for Mental Health, are in agreement with the Minister of Police with this withdrawal going ahead without publicly available plans for how mental health and ambulance services will manage the unilateral withdrawal from police.
- Confirm whether your public statements have been based on advice or reflect your own views on the matter.
- Confirm whether ambulance services have agreed to a protocol for transfer of the service from police to ambulance services, and provide that protocol.
- Release minutes and briefings related to advice the minister has received concerning preparedness, including any policy impact statements.
- Release any minutes or briefings from either Te Whatu Ora or the Ministry of Health, which raise concerns about the safety of patients or workers, including any PCBU risks.
- Provide any advice ACC has given concerning PCBU risks in the context of the police withdrawal.
- Release any risk assessments undertaken by the Ministry of Health, Te Whatu Ora, ACC or Ambulance Organisations concerning the likelihood of excess mortality arising from both the withdrawal itself and also how the police have decided to withdraw.
- Release any consultation documents developed with ambulance services and workers, including Hato Hone St John, Life Flight and Wellington Free Ambulance.
- Explain the absence of any such documents, and why there wouldn't have been such a document produced before implementation if one doesn't exist.
Yours faithfully,
Lauren Doocy
From: Matthew Doocey (MIN)
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From: Matthew Doocey (MIN)
Matt Doocey
Dear Lauren,
Thank you for your email of 2/11/2024 in which you submitted an Official Information Act request as follows:
"- The minister's plan to adequately resource mental health and ambulance services, including the breakdown of additional budget allocation for personal protective equipment, training and education, additional funding for increased workload, and funding assigned to legal protection and aid for ambulance workers.
- Briefings the minister has received concerning ambulance and mental health services preparedness.
- Confirm whether you as Minister for Mental Health, are in agreement with the Minister of Police with this withdrawal going ahead without publicly available plans for how mental health and ambulance services will manage the unilateral withdrawal from police.
- Confirm whether your public statements have been based on advice or reflect your own views on the matter.
- Confirm whether ambulance services have agreed to a protocol for transfer of the service from police to ambulance services, and provide that protocol.
- Release minutes and briefings related to advice the minister has received concerning preparedness, including any policy impact statements.
- Release any minutes or briefings from either Te Whatu Ora or the Ministry of Health, which raise concerns about the safety of patients or workers, including any PCBU risks.
- Provide any advice ACC has given concerning PCBU risks in the context of the police withdrawal.
- Release any risk assessments undertaken by the Ministry of Health, Te Whatu Ora, ACC or Ambulance Organisations concerning the likelihood of excess mortality arising from both the withdrawal itself and also how the police have decided to withdraw.
- Release any consultation documents developed with ambulance services and workers, including Hato Hone St John, Life Flight and Wellington Free Ambulance.
- Explain the absence of any such documents, and why there wouldn't have been such a document produced before implementation if one doesn't exist."
Minister Doocey is considering your request in accordance with the Act, and you can expect a response by 29/11/2024.
Yours sincerely
Office of Hon Matt Doocey
Minister for ACC | Minister for Mental Health | Minister for Tourism and Hospitality | Minister for Youth |
Associate Minister of Health | Associate Minister of Transport
DDI: 04 817 6812
Email: [Matt Doocey request email] Website: www.Beehive.govt.nz
Private Bag 18041, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6160, New Zealand
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From: Matthew Doocey (MIN)
Matt Doocey
Dear Lauren
Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) to the Office of Hon Matt Doocey received on 2 November 2024 for:
- The minister's plan to adequately resource mental health and ambulance services, including the breakdown of additional budget allocation for personal protective equipment, training and education, additional funding for increased workload, and funding assigned to legal protection and aid for ambulance workers.
- Briefings the minister has received concerning ambulance and mental health services preparedness.
- Confirm whether you as Minister for Mental Health, are in agreement with the Minister of Police with this withdrawal going ahead without publicly available plans for how mental health and ambulance services will manage the unilateral withdrawal from police.
- Confirm whether your public statements have been based on advice or reflect your own views on the matter.
- Confirm whether ambulance services have agreed to a protocol for transfer of the service from police to ambulance services, and provide that protocol.
- Release minutes and briefings related to advice the minister has received concerning preparedness, including any policy impact statements.
- Release any minutes or briefings from either Te Whatu Ora or the Ministry of Health, which raise concerns about the safety of patients or workers, including any PCBU risks.
- Provide any advice ACC has given concerning PCBU risks in the context of the police withdrawal.
- Release any risk assessments undertaken by the Ministry of Health, Te Whatu Ora, ACC or Ambulance Organisations concerning the likelihood of excess mortality arising from both the withdrawal itself and also how the police have decided to withdraw.
- Release any consultation documents developed with ambulance services and workers, including Hato Hone St John, Life Flight and Wellington Free Ambulance.
- Explain the absence of any such documents, and why there wouldn't have been such a document produced before implementation if one doesn't exist.
In order to provide you with the information requested, could you please clarify the time frame of the scope of your request in order for us to scope the request and respond appropriately.
Please respond by 24 November in order for us to complete your request.
We look forward to receiving your response.
Yours sincerely
Office of Hon Matt Doocey
Minister for ACC | Minister for Mental Health | Minister for Tourism and Hospitality | Minister for Youth |
Associate Minister of Health | Associate Minister of Transport
DDI: 04 817 6812
Email: [Matt Doocey request email] Website: www.Beehive.govt.nz
Private Bag 18041, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6160, New Zealand
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From: Lauren Doocy
Dear Matthew Doocey (MIN),
The timeline of the police mental health withdrawal is very current, so the timeframe relates to this. The questions are reasonably specific and this is quite a significant government policy- an appropriate timeframe that your team feels answers the questions.
Yours sincerely,
Lauren Doocy
From: Matthew Doocey (MIN)
Matt Doocey
Dear Lauren,
Thank you for your request for Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) to the Office of Hon Matt Doocey received on 2 November 2024 for:
"- The minister's plan to adequately resource mental health and ambulance services, including the breakdown of additional budget allocation for personal protective equipment, training and education, additional funding for increased workload, and funding assigned to legal protection and aid for ambulance workers.
- Briefings the minister has received concerning ambulance and mental health services preparedness.
- Confirm whether you as Minister for Mental Health, are in agreement with the Minister of Police with this withdrawal going ahead without publicly available plans for how mental health and ambulance services will manage the unilateral withdrawal from police.
- Confirm whether your public statements have been based on advice or reflect your own views on the matter.
- Confirm whether ambulance services have agreed to a protocol for transfer of the service from police to ambulance services, and provide that protocol.
- Release minutes and briefings related to advice the minister has received concerning preparedness, including any policy impact statements.
- Release any minutes or briefings from either Te Whatu Ora or the Ministry of Health, which raise concerns about the safety of patients or workers, including any PCBU risks.
- Provide any advice ACC has given concerning PCBU risks in the context of the police withdrawal.
- Release any risk assessments undertaken by the Ministry of Health, Te Whatu Ora, ACC or Ambulance Organisations concerning the likelihood of excess mortality arising from both the withdrawal itself and also how the police have decided to withdraw.
- Release any consultation documents developed with ambulance services and workers, including Hato Hone St John, Life Flight and Wellington Free Ambulance.
- Explain the absence of any such documents, and why there wouldn't have been such a document produced before implementation if one doesn't exist."
The Office of Hon Matt Doocey has decided to extend the period of time available to respond to your request under section 15A of the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) as consultations necessary to make a decision on the request are such that a proper response to the request cannot reasonably be made within the original time limit.
You can now expect a response to your request on, or before, 19 December 2024.
You have the right, under section 28 of the Act, to ask the Ombudsman to review my decision to extend the time available to respond to your request.
Yours sincerely
Office of Hon Matt Doocey
Minister for ACC | Minister for Mental Health | Minister for Tourism and Hospitality | Minister for Youth |
Associate Minister of Health | Associate Minister of Transport
DDI: 04 817 6812
Email: [Matt Doocey request email] Website: www.Beehive.govt.nz
Private Bag 18041, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6160, New Zealand
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From: Matthew Doocey (MIN)
Matt Doocey
Dear Lauren,
On behalf of Hon Matt Doocey, please see the attached letter in response
to your request under the Official Information Act.
Yours sincerely
Office of Hon Matt Doocey
Minister for ACC | Minister for Mental Health | Minister for Tourism and
Hospitality | Minister for Youth |
Associate Minister of Health | Associate Minister of Transport
DDI: 04 817 6812
Email: [1][Matt Doocey request email] Website: [2]www.Beehive.govt.nz
Private Bag 18041, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6160, New Zealand
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From: Lauren Doocy
Dear Matthew Doocey (MIN),
You've refused extensive amounts of my request. I have copies of information you are saying doesn't exist, so refusing just makes it look jucier. I'm not certain whether it's more concerning that you're claiming it doesn't exist, or whether you're being told it doesn't exist, but that's something for you to consider (if your team share this message with you).
The reality, as well you know, is that there are to-date no actual plans to address these issues. Health scrambled to meet Police's deliverable but completely overlooked the fact that it means it is taking on more work. There's SOPs but they really haven't been consulted on, leaving everyone a bit embarrassed.
So, I'll ask you one more specific question. Outline what, if any, resourcing has been provided to health and ambulance services to address the mental health transition. A dollar figure will do. If the answer is $0, please just say so.
Yours sincerely,
Lauren Doocy
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