Dear Robert Harrison

Thank you for your request for official information, received by the
Ministry of Health on 4 January 2017. The Ministry's reference number for
your request is: H20170 0018

You requested:

I request all information, documentation, costings, advice sought &
provided, correspondence between suppliers, manufacturers, pharmacy
wholesalers, regarding the management of supply of Stelazine
(trifluoperazine).
I also request all documentation & advise received/sought from patients,
customers, MPs, pharmacists/pharmacies, doctors, nurses/all health care
professionals regarding the supply of Stelazine (trifluoperazine) in
recent times. The names/addresses can be blanked out.

Your request has been received and logged.  You can expect a reply no
later than 13 February 2017 as required under the Official Information Act
1982.

Please note that a working day is defined in the Act as ‘any day of the
week other than a Saturday, Sunday, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Anzac Day,
Labour Day, the Sovereigns birthday, Waitangi Day and a day in the period
commencing 25 December in any year and ending 15 January in the following
year.

If a large amount of information has been requested or if the Ministry
needs to consult in order to make a decision, we may need to extend this
date (this is provided for in section 15A of the Act).  We will advise you
if such an extension is necessary.

With respect to this request and your two other requests, my apologies but
this is the first record I have of your request having been made. It's
standard practise to send an acknowledgement letter to the requester,
which includes a statement of the request as we understand it, an expected
due date, and a reference number for the particular request. In the
absence of that, we are treating this as a new request made by you as of
today's date. The due date I've given you is in accordance with the
non-working day period as laid out in the Act, and made using the
calculator that is located on the Ombudsman's website.

We have notified FYI.org that there appears to be an issue with requests
being submitted by some users from their site.

Yours sincerely,

Chris Fletcher l OIA Co-ordinator
[MOH request email]
Government Relations l Ministerial, Executive and Government Services l
Office of the Director General

[1]http://www.health.govt.nz

From:        WGRH <[FOI #5009 email]>
To:        OIA/LGOIMA requests at MOH <[MOH request email]>,
Date:        28/12/2016 09:01 a.m.
Subject:        Re: Official Information request - Management of supply of
Stelazine (trifluoperazine)

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Dear Ministry of Health,

By law, the Ministry of Health should have normally responded promptly to
my OIA request, and have done so by the 22nd day of December 2016.

I acknowledge that it is close to Christmas, and am willing to give a
slight extension to my request. Please get back to me by the first week of
Jan 2017.

Yours faithfully,

Dr W G R Harrison

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Dear Robert Harrison

Please find attached a letter regarding your request for official
information.

Regards,

Chris Fletcher l OIA Co-ordinator
[MOH request email]     l  
Government Relations l Ministerial, Executive and Government Services l
Office of the Director General

[1]http://www.health.govt.nz

From:        OIA Requests/MOH
To:        WGRH <[FOI #5009 email]>,
Cc:        OIA Requests/MOH@MOH
Date:        04/01/2017 04:35 p.m.
Subject:        Acknowledgment of your OIA request - H20170 0018
Sent by:        Christopher Fletcher

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Dear Robert Harrison

Thank you for your request for official information, received by the
Ministry of Health on 4 January 2017. The Ministry's reference number for
your request is: H20170 0018

You requested:

I request all information, documentation, costings, advice sought &
provided, correspondence between suppliers, manufacturers, pharmacy
wholesalers, regarding the management of supply of Stelazine
(trifluoperazine).
I also request all documentation & advise received/sought from patients,
customers, MPs, pharmacists/pharmacies, doctors, nurses/all health care
professionals regarding the supply of Stelazine (trifluoperazine) in
recent times. The names/addresses can be blanked out.

Your request has been received and logged.  You can expect a reply no
later than 13 February 2017 as required under the Official Information Act
1982.

Please note that a working day is defined in the Act as ‘any day of the
week other than a Saturday, Sunday, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Anzac Day,
Labour Day, the Sovereigns birthday, Waitangi Day and a day in the period
commencing 25 December in any year and ending 15 January in the following
year.

If a large amount of information has been requested or if the Ministry
needs to consult in order to make a decision, we may need to extend this
date (this is provided for in section 15A of the Act).  We will advise you
if such an extension is necessary.

With respect to this request and your two other requests, my apologies but
this is the first record I have of your request having been made. It's
standard practise to send an acknowledgement letter to the requester,
which includes a statement of the request as we understand it, an expected
due date, and a reference number for the particular request. In the
absence of that, we are treating this as a new request made by you as of
today's date. The due date I've given you is in accordance with the
non-working day period as laid out in the Act, and made using the
calculator that is located on the Ombudsman's website.

We have notified FYI.org that there appears to be an issue with requests
being submitted by some users from their site.

Yours sincerely,

Chris Fletcher l OIA Co-ordinator
[MOH request email]
Government Relations l Ministerial, Executive and Government Services l
Office of the Director General

[2]http://www.health.govt.nz

From:        WGRH <[FOI #5009 email]>
To:        OIA/LGOIMA requests at MOH <[MOH request email]>,
Date:        28/12/2016 09:01 a.m.
Subject:        Re: Official Information request - Management of supply of
Stelazine (trifluoperazine)

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Dear Ministry of Health,

By law, the Ministry of Health should have normally responded promptly to
my OIA request, and have done so by the 22nd day of December 2016.

I acknowledge that it is close to Christmas, and am willing to give a
slight extension to my request. Please get back to me by the first week of
Jan 2017.

Yours faithfully,

Dr W G R Harrison

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Please use this email address for all replies to this request:
[FOI #5009 email]

Disclaimer: This message and any reply that you make will be published on
the internet. Our privacy and copyright policies:
[3]http://scanmail.trustwave.com/?c=5305&am...

If you find this service useful as an Official Information officer, please
ask your web manager to link to us from your organisation's OIA or LGOIMA
page.

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distribute or copy this message or attachments.
If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender
immediately and delete this message.
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