22 April 2026
John
[FYI request #34340 email]
Tēnā koe John
Your request for official information, reference: HNZ00202313
Thank you for your email 01 April 2026, asking Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora for the
following under the Official Information Act 1982 (the OIA):
The annual numbers of landings at the helipads for each of the following five hospitals.
1. Auckland Hospital
2. Waikato Hospital
3. Wellington Regional Hospital
4. Christchurch Hospital
5. Dunedin Hospital
Can the yearly totals for each year between 2015 and 2025 be provided for each of the five
hospitals.
Is there data on the type of emergency or medical event/condition associated for each
landing which is available as yearly totals for categories such as cardiac arrest, traffic
collision, stoke, etc?
Can your organisation supply the above data in tables containing yearly totals for each
medical category for helicopter arrivals at each of the five hospitals?
Can the above data be provided for yearly totals for each year between 2015 and 2025, for
each of the five hospitals and for each medical event/condition category routinely recorded?
Response
The annual numbers of landings at the helipads for each of the following five hospitals.
1. Auckland Hospital
2. Waikato Hospital
3. Wellington Regional Hospital
4. Christchurch Hospital
5. Dunedin Hospital
Can the yearly totals for each year between 2015 and 2025 be provided for each of the five
hospitals.
Health NZ is only able to provide the number of landings for the hospitals listed for the period
01/07/2019 - 31/12/2025 by financial year noting that the period 01/07/2025 - 31/12/2025 is for six
months data.
Information prior to 01 July 2019 is not available. Therefore, section 18(g) of the Act applies to your
request, the information you have requested is not held by Health NZ and we have no grounds to
believe that the information is held by another entity subject to the OIA.
The available information is attached in
Appendix One Tab 1
. This data includes all missions
where the destination is hospitals mentioned above.
Is there data on the type of emergency or medical event/condition associated for each
landing which is available as yearly totals for categories such as cardiac arrest, traffic
collision, stoke, etc?
Can your organisation supply the above data in tables containing yearly totals for each
medical category for helicopter arrivals at each of the five hospitals?
Can the above data be provided for yearly totals for each year between 2015 and 2025, for
each of the five hospitals and for each medical event/condition category routinely recorded?
Health NZ can only provide the category-based information from 01 July 2022 as information prior
to this date is not available. Therefore, section 18(g) of the Act applies to your request, the
information you have requested is not held by Health NZ and we have no grounds to believe that
the information is held by another entity subject to the OIA.
The available information has been listed by hospital/category for the period 01/07/2022 -
31/12/2025 by financial year and is attached in
Appendix One Tab 2.
Please Note this is provisional data. This is data which has not undergone the validation process
that we use for published data. We recommend that caveats are consistently used, underscoring
that the data is provisional; not validated through a formal validation process; and could be subject
to change. We cannot guarantee that information is free from errors due to the different reporting
systems and functionalities of those systems currently used across Health NZ.
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www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or
by phoning 0800 802 602.
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contact details, will be removed prior to release.
Nāku iti noa, nā
Danielle Coe Manager (OIA) Government Services
TeWhatuOra.govt.nz
Health NZ, PO Box 793,
Wellington 6140, New Zealand
