The NZ Rural Hospital Network wants to clearly understand each DHB's process for allocating, monitoring and reporting the annual DHB Rural Adjuster fund.
Marie Daly made this Official Information request to Wairarapa District Health Board
The request was successful.
From: Marie Daly
Dear Wairarapa District Health Board,
1. For each of the past three years ending June 2016, June 2017 and June 2018 what was the DHBs Rural Adjuster funding component of the PBFF funding pool?
2. Does the DHB fund and provide rural hospital services?
If Yes, continue to answer questions 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3. If no, go to question 3
2.1 Provide the following information about the rural hospitals in your DHB.
If there are none, please report this.
• Name or location of hospital
• List of services the hospital provides
• The business structure of the hospital eg DHB owned and operated / NGO or Iwi owned and operated
• Annual Budget
2.2 How is the annual budget for each of the rural hospitals listed in the table in 2.1 set?
2.3 How does the DHB apply the annual rural adjuster funding to the benefit of each of the rural hospitals listed in the table in question 2.1?
3. Does the DHB fund and provide rural community services?
If yes, continue to answer questions 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3. If no, go to question 3
3.1 Provide the following information about the rural community services in your DHB.
If there are none, please report this.
• Location of services
• List of Community services in each location
• The business structure of the service provider eg DHB owned and operated / NGO or Iwi owned and operated
• Annual Budget.
3.2 How is the annual budget for the community services listed in the table in 3.1 set?
3.3 How does the DHB apply the annual rural adjuster funding to the benefit of each of the rural community listed in the table in question 3.1?
4. For each of the past three years, under each of the components of the Rural Adjuster, quantify the allocation of Rural Adjuster funding through the DHBs contracts with its contracted providers or Service Level Alliance Teams.
• Small hospital facilities
• Community services
• Offshore Islands
• Travel and Accommodation
• Inter hospital transfers
• Governance
• Rural GP/PHO payments
5. i. Does the DHB include reporting requirements specific to the use of rural adjuster funding in its contracts with service providers whose contract includes rural adjuster funding.
ii. If yes, provide a list of the reporting requirements included in the DHB contracts with these providers.
Yours faithfully,
Marie Daly
On behalf of the NZ Rural Hospital Network Executive Committee
From: OIA Request [WrDHB]
Wairarapa District Health Board
Dear Marie
Official information request.
I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your official information request
dated 28 February 2019 regarding DHB Rural Adjuster Fund.
We received your request on 28 February 2019. We will endeavour to respond
to your request as soon as possible and in any event no later than 28
March 2019, being 20 working days after the day your request was received.
If we are unable to respond to your request by then, we will notify you of
an extension of that timeframe.
If the information requested cannot be made available without substantial
collation, under section 18(f) and section 18A(1)(a) of the Official
Information Act 1982 we may refuse the request or fix a charge under
section 15. If your request falls into this category we will inform you as
soon as possible.
If any additional factors come to light that are relevant to your request,
please do not hesitate to contact us so that these can be taken into
account.
Please note that, like all DHBs across New Zealand, Wairarapa DHB has
adopted a model of proactive disclosure which sees OIA responses publicly
available on our website no less than one week after they have been
released.
If you believe there are any special reasons why proactive disclosure
should not apply to your response, we will be happy to consider this.
Yours sincerely
Caroline van Deventer
Communications Administrator
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From: OIA Request [WrDHB]
Wairarapa District Health Board
Hi
Please find attached the signed partial transfer letter.
Thank you
Caroline
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From: OIA Request [WrDHB]
Wairarapa District Health Board
Hi
Please find attached the signed response to your recent OIA request.
Many thanks
Caroline
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