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From: [Redacted]

Sent: Sunday, 19 January 2025 16:02
To: OIA Requests <[2][email address]>
Subject: Official Information request - Enrolled Children for Dental care
and Overdue

 

Dear Ministry of Health,

Please provide me with:

- total by year (and by region/DHB if possible) of children 0 - 8 years
old enrolled for publicly funded dental care since 2017.

- total by quarter and region/DHB of enrolled children who are overdue by
6 months, 1 year+ for an appointment with a school/community dental
service.

Yours faithfully,

[Redacted]

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Tçnâ koe Jensen, 

Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the
Act) to the Ministry of Health-Manatû Hauora on 19 January 2025.

 

The Ministry does not hold any information relating to your request;
however, I have been advised that this information is held by Health New
Zealand (Te Whatu Ora – [1][email address]). For this reason, I
have decided to transfer your request to Health New Zealand under section
14(b)(i) of the Act. You can expect a response from their agency 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: [2][email address] or by calling 0800
802 602.

 

Ngâ mihi 
  

OIA Services Team

Manatû Hauora | Ministry of Health

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Kia ora J Jensen

Thank you for your request for official information, received on 21
January 2025 for: 
 
"-total by year (and by region/DHB if possible) of children 0 - 8 years
old enrolled for publicly funded dental care since 2017.
-total by quarter and region/DHB of enrolled children who are overdue by 6
months, 1 year+ for an appointment with a school/community dental
service."
 
In order to provide you with the information requested, could you please
clarify the information you are seeking- 
 

* Do you want the two measures by district/region, or a national total?
* What timeframe do you want the overdue data for?

– your request states by quarter (but we only hold annual data
centrally, and to note we only hold the annual data for Calendar Years
2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023.

As the timeframes for response do not pause while we are waiting for this
clarification, I would be grateful if you could get back to us by 5.00PM
Tuesday 18 February. If I do not hear back from you by this date, we will
have to proceed with your request on the basis of the information we do
have readily available. 
 
Ngâ mihi, 

Maree
Government Services (OIA)
[1][email address]
Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora
 
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Kia ora J Jensen

Thank you for your email dated 17 February 2025 to refine your request for
official information, received on 21 January 2025 for: 

"-total by year (and by region/DHB if possible) of children 0 - 8 years
old enrolled for publicly funded dental care since 2017.
-total by quarter and region/DHB of enrolled children who are overdue by 6
months, 1 year+ for an appointment with a school/community dental
service."
Based on our preliminary work, point 2 would require a significant amount
of collation and consultation across the 20 Health NZ local areas.
 
Therefore, in the interests of providing you with information in a timely
manner, we would like to give you the opportunity to amend or clarify the
scope of this part of your request in order for us to determine if the
information is available in a manner that is more readily retrievable from
our system.
 
To assist you, the information we can provide at a national level is the
total number of enrolled children 0 – 8 years old who are overdue, by
calendar year from 2019 – 2023 and by district/region, that we believe
would satisfy this part of your request.
 
We appreciate you are under no obligation to amend your request, but
requests that require substantial collation may be refused under section
18(f) of the Official Information Act 1982.
 
We want to work with you to avoid this and ensure we are able to provide a
response that best meets your needs.
 
Please let us know before Tuesday 25 February 2025 whether you are
prepared to amend or clarify point 2 of your request and, if so, how.

We look forward to receiving your response. 

Ngâ mihi

Maree
Government Services (OIA)
[1][email address]
Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora
 
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