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Our reference number for your request is: 2017/229.

Kind regards,

Annabella Gamboni
Communications Assistant | Communications Unit | Capital & Coast District Health Board | Ūpoko ki te uru hauora
M: 027 558 8886 | T: 04 806 2280 | Ext: 82280 | www.ccdhb.org.nz | www.facebook.com/CCDHB 

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From: Health Sector Workers Network [mailto:[FOI #6688 email]]
Sent: Wednesday, 11 October 2017 3:02 p.m.
To: OIA [CCDHB]
Subject: Official Information request - Capital and Coast DHB Shorter Stays in the ED and Use of ED Observation Unit

Dear Capital and Coast District Health Board,

Kia ora

Health Sector Workers Network is asking your DHB to provide information to the following questions:

1. What are the percentages of patients presenting to the Emergency Departments that were admitted, discharged or transferred within six hours of presentation for each month of the year June 2016 to June 2017?

2. Please provide any DHB policy concerning guidelines and use of the ED observation unit? By “ED observation unit”, we are referring to the usage defined by the Ministry Of Health in the paper Streaming and the use of Emergency Department Observation Units and Inpatient Assessment Units.

3. What percentage of total ED presentations for each month of the year June 2016 to June 2017 utilised the ED Observation unit?

4. What percentage of patients utilising the ED observation unit were discharged home from this location for each month of the year June 2016 to June 2017?

5. What is your DHB’s expected length of stay for the patients utilising the ED observation unit?

6. What percentage of patients for each month of the year June 2016 to June 2017 exceeding the length of stay given in question 5?

Yours faithfully,

Health Sector Workers Network

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Good afternoon

 

Please find attached our response to your OIA request relating to
Emergency Department (ED) presentations and the use of an ED Observation
Unit.

 

Kind regards

Andrea

 

 

Andrea Martin

Personal Assistant to:

Carey Virtue, Executive Director, Operations

Dr Anna Ranta, Executive Director, Clinical

Dr Grant Pidgeon, Executive Director, Clinical

 

Medicine, Cancer & Community Directorate | Level 6, Grace Neill Block,
Wellington Regional Hospital | Capital & Coast District Health Board |
Ūpoko ki te uru hauora

T: 04 806 2586 | Ext: 82586 | [1]www.ccdhb.org.nz |
[2]www.facebook.com/CCDHB 

 

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