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 Canterbury District Health Board
Response to this request is long overdue. By law Canterbury District Health Board should have responded by now (details and exceptions). The requester can complain to the Ombudsman.
From: Marie Daly
Dear Canterbury 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
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From: Kathleen Smitheram
Canterbury District Health Board
Kind regards
Kathleen Smitheram
Canterbury District Health Board and West Coast District Health Board
Official Information Act Co-ordinator, Planning and Funding
Level 2, 32 Oxford Terrace
PO Box 1600
Christchurch 8140
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From: Kathleen Smitheram
Canterbury District Health Board
Kind regards
Kathleen Smitheram
Canterbury District Health Board and West Coast District Health Board
Official Information Act Co-ordinator, Planning and Funding
Level 2, 32 Oxford Terrace
PO Box 1600
Christchurch 8140
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From: Kathleen Smitheram
Canterbury District Health Board
Kind regards
Kathleen Smitheram
Canterbury District Health Board and West Coast District Health Board
Official Information Act Co-ordinator, Planning and Funding
Level 2, 32 Oxford Terrace
PO Box 1600
Christchurch 8140
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From: Marie Daly
Dear Kathleen Smitheram,
I am aware that DHBs receive a huge number of OIA requests that must be very demanding to respond to. However, as Canterbury DHB has one of the largest rural populations, we'd really like to be able to include your response to our OIA in our summary of them all.
Can you give me an indication of when you might be able to provide the information we have requested?
Yours sincerely,
Marie Daly
From: Kathleen Smitheram
Canterbury District Health Board
Dear Marie
I have spoken with the person writing the responses for both DHBs and while he couldn't give me a definite date he told me he is actively working on these for you.
I'm sorry I can't give you more than that at this time.
Kind regards
Kathleen
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From: Marie Daly [mailto:[FOI #9741 email]]
Sent: Monday, 29 April 2019 3:09 p.m.
To: Kathleen Smitheram <[email address]>
Subject: Re: RE Official Information Act requests CDHB 10047 & WCDHB 9289
Dear Kathleen Smitheram,
I am aware that DHBs receive a huge number of OIA requests that must be very demanding to respond to. However, as Canterbury DHB has one of the largest rural populations, we'd really like to be able to include your response to our OIA in our summary of them all.
Can you give me an indication of when you might be able to provide the information we have requested?
Yours sincerely,
Marie Daly
-----Original Message-----
Kind regards
Kathleen Smitheram
Canterbury District Health Board and West Coast District Health Board
Official Information Act Co-ordinator, Planning and Funding
Level 2, 32 Oxford Terrace
PO Box 1600
Christchurch 8140
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From: Marie Daly
Dear Kathleen Smitheram,
Thanks Kathleen
We are working with the GMs P&F to bring the rural hospital sector together for a Summit probably next month and so want to be able to have the data collated for that session. As your DHB has such a significant rural sector, and some quite targeted rural services (the only one with a Rural PHO!) it would be useful to include the information for that session.
Kind regards
Marie Daly
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