25 November 2024
Jackie Thorne
[FYI request #29096 email]
Tēnā koe Jackie
Your request for official information, reference: HNZ00071007
Thank you for your email on 7 November 2024, asking Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora for the
following under the Of icial Information Act 1982 (the Act):
There were mass events for Covid-19 vaccination on 16 Oct 2021 for the Super Saturday
These were at large venues which would have required event ambulances.
How many event ambulances were required at each super Saturday venues?
How many event ambulances were booked for each event center?
How many frontline ambulances were requested through the 111 call center to respond to
to the Super Saturday vaccination centers?
Kindly provide the forms for the risk profile of the event at these various premises. For
example, a motocross event would require more ambulances than say the quilting
convention based on the risk profile of the event taking place.
What was the cost for pre-booking the ambulances for the 16 Oct 2021 Super Saturday
events?
Response
Super Saturday took place before the establishment of Health NZ on 1 July 2022.
A general information release about Super Saturday on 2 May 2022 is available at this link
https:/ www.health.govt.nz/information-releases/super-saturday-and-vaxathon-information and
although there does not appear to be any reference to ambulance requirement at the various
vaccination sites in this Super Saturday release, Health NZ understands that some larger
vaccination sites may have had an ambulance presence. Many established vaccination sites were
expected to see increased volumes but not to the extent that would have required an event
ambulance.
Further information about Super Saturday would be held by Wellington Fee Ambulance or St John.
We are therefore refusing your request under section 18(g) of the Act as the information you have
requested is not held by Health NZ and we have no grounds to believe that the information is either
held or connected more closely with the functions of another organisation subject to the Act.
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Nāku iti noa, nā
Danielle Coe
Manager (OIAs) Government Services
TeWhatuOra.govt.nz
Health NZ, PO Box 793,
Wel ington 6140, New Zealand
