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From: Lemm [[3]mailto:[FOI #4548 email]]

Sent: Monday, 5 September 2016 10:07

To: HBDHB CEO

Subject: Official Information request - Number of breast cancer papients
waiting for reconstruction or symmetry after breast surgery

 

Dear Hawke's Bay District Health Board,

 

I would like to request the district health board minutes and documents
dating back as far as 2012 please..

 

I would also like to request information on How many women are waiting on
post mastectomy reconstruction.?  Apparently women who have reconstruction
at the time of mastectomy are ok, but those for very valid reasons are not
able to, have to wait indefinitely and are less likely to go on a waiting
list.

 

Hospital waiting lists will not reflect the real numbers of women who are
waiting.  As when I wrote the MOH they stated in their letter that they
did not hold this information.

 

I first had a mastectomy and reconstruction on 18 March 2013 and
subsequently had to wait three years and five months to have a reduction
operation for symmetry.  I would have preferred to have had a prophylactic
mastectomy and reconstruction of the right breast.  As I had met other
women who developed breast cancer in their other breast and now it was too
late. 

 

I think women should have the right to choose what is the best possible
outcome for their health and that this option in not only available for
those with medical insurance.

 

How many women are waiting for prophylactic contralateral mastectomy? 

 

How many women are waiting for breast reduction for symmetry following a
trans flap mastectomy or other preference of reconstruction?

 

Only the surgeons will know this information and it should be recorded to
the MOH each year at present this information is not.  General Practice
doctors are not the ones that should report this information.  It  should
be the responsibility of surgeons to record this data and send it to the
MOH.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Evelyn Lemm

14 Chaucer Road South

Hospital Hill

Napier

 

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Dear Ms Lemm
 
Please find attached a response to your Official Information Act request
dated 5 September 2016.
 
Regards
 
Kathy Shanaghan | Executive Assistant to CEO
Hawke’s Bay District Health Board
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Good Morning Evelyn

 

Please see the attached response to your OIA request.

 

Kind regards

Tricia

 

Tricia Caughley

Executive Administrator

Executive Reception,

Chief Executive Office

Pilmuir House

Hutt Valley District Health Board

Lower Hutt

 

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