CORPORATE OFFICE
Level 1
32 Oxford Terrace
Telephone: 0064 3 364 4160
Christchurch Central
Fax: 0064 3 364 4165
CHRISTCHURCH 8011
[email address]
18 August 2017
Destiny Wiringi
Email: [FYI request #6204 email];
Dear Destiny
RE Official information request CDHB 9666
I refer to your Official Information Act request dated 13 July 2017 requesting the following information.
We endeavoured to get some clarification from you on 21 July 2017 and some narrowing of the scope of
your request (including the 21 year time frame) as did other DHBs via DHB Shared Services on 19 July
2017. To date we have not received a response.
Can you please give me the figures of patients (from 1996 to 2016) with the below
symptoms/diagnoses below:-
-
Diagnosis of bipolar disorder
-
Seizures
-
Abnormal bleeding
-
Depression
-
Suicidal thoughts / attempts
-
Death by suicide
-
Insomnia
-
Anxiety
The Canterbury DHB does not hold the information pertaining to your request for the years prior to
2000, we are therefore declining to provide this under section 18(g) of the Official Information Act.
Canterbury DHB has interpreted the scope of your request as asking for inpatient events, therefore our
response does not include people who have had contact with community services or any other DHB
service (including ED) with any of the symptoms or diagnoses to which your request refers.
The Canterbury DHB does not have a code for abnormal bleeding or suicidal thoughts (symptoms used
in the formulation of a diagnosis and only available in clinical notes). To provide this information would
require substantial time and resource to go through individual patient files and we are declining to do
this under section 18(f) of the Official Information Act.
Death by suicide: The Coroner determines and reports suicide statistics in New Zealand, by district, and
given the specified 21 year timeframe you might consider sourcing information from Coronial Services
https://coronialservices.justice.govt.nz/. We can, however, provide you with information for Bipolar disorder, Seizures (epilepsy), Depression,
Anxiety and Insomnia. Please refer to
Appendix 1 Table one, Table two and
Fig.1 (attached) for
information pertaining to these services between calendar years 2000 and 2016. These tables outline
the count of discharges by year (
Table one) and distinct patients (
Table two) who were discharged by
year. (
Note: some people had more than one discharge within the same year).
Fig.1 is a graph portraying the information provided in
Table one.
If you disagree with our decision to decline any information you may, under section 28(3) of the Act,
seek an investigation and review of our decision from the Ombudsman.
I trust that this satisfies your interest in this matter.
Yours sincerely
Carolyn Gullery
General Manager
Planning, Funding & Decision Support
Appendix 1 9666
Table one: Number of discharges 2000 – 2016 (calendar year)*
Diagnosis Group
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
Anxiety
512
451
565
858
994
625
578
504
561
535
748
802
1043
989
1160
1142
1210
Bipolar disorder
676
675
641
633
591
569
571
519
414
498
454
417
481
527
531
527
516
Depression
1368
1566
1567
1624
1381
1245
1237
1184
1178
1036
1120
1094
1395
1396
1509
1459
1181
Insomnia
15
24
39
114
91
23
15
32
19
39
44
63
95
95
84
57
103
Seizures
584
546
681
562
589
510
475
465
438
407
436
510
527
508
547
461
487
(Epilepsy)
Table two: Number of patients 2000 – 2016 (calendar year)*
Diagnosis Group
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
Anxiety
435
371
469
669
715
512
484
441
488
442
620
687
865
815
907
912
930
Bipolar disorder
420
394
391
383
355
346
350
354
269
298
290
268
305
318
288
316
286
Depression
900
957
1019
1039
918
847
816
750
736
647
715
684
837
879
842
751
672
Insomnia
14
23
39
98
85
23
15
28
18
34
43
62
94
93
84
55
101
Seizures
448
412
458
388
396
342
350
357
330
307
314
362
367
379
380
324
361
(Epilepsy)
*
Please note: The Canterbury DHB does not hold this information for the years prior to 2000 we are therefore declining to provide this under section 18(g) of the Official
Information Act.
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