Planning and Funding
Telephone: 0064 3 364 4130
P O Box 1600,
Fax: 0064 3 364 4165
CHRISTCHURCH
[email address]
18 April 2019
Te Ringa Mangu Mihaka
Email: [FYI request #9896 email];
Dear Sir
RE Official Information Act request CDHB 10083
I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your email dated 21 March 2019 to Ministry of Health which they
subsequently partially transferred to us on 17 April 2019 requesting the following information under the Official
Information Act from Canterbury DHB specifically.
All information regarding funding, contracts, communications, applications for funding, contracts,
provision of services and all other matters, made to the Ministry of Health or any of its subsidiaries
including District Health Boards, to an organisation known as 'Nga Hau E Wha', including a copy of the
contract number 356272/00
- Management and co- ordination of Nga Hau E Wha (NHEW), and all
previous contracts with this organisation.
I further request:
all information held by the Ministry of Health or any of its subsidiaries including
District
Health Boards regarding the Chairperson (or former Chairperson) Victoria Roberts, and others
associated with NHEW including Jak Wild and Tui Taurua Peihopa - in particular any and all
communication with Tui Taurua Peihopa or anyone from the organisation NHEW regarding the letter
sent to her in about June last year regarding her misleading claim to being a "clinician".
We will consider your request against the provisions of the Official Information Act (see below) and advise you of
our decision regarding the release of information within 20 working days (being the statutory timeframe
provided within the Act.) Accordingly, and taking into account Good Friday and Easter Monday, we will notify
you, no later than 20 May 2019, of our decision.
Your request is being handled by Kathleen Smitheram. If you have any queries, please feel free to contact
either myself (details above) or Kathleen.
([email address]; Phone 364-4134). Please
refer to the OIA number above when phoning or emailing.
If any additional factors come to light which are relevant to your request, please do not hesitate to contact us
so that these can be taken into account.
Yours sincerely
Wayne Turp
Project Specialist
15 Decisions on requests
(1) Subject to this Act, the department or Minister of the Crown or organisation to whom a request is made in accordance wit
h section 12
or is transferred in accordance wit
h section 14 of this Act o
r section 12 of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act
1987 shall, as soon as reasonably practicable, and in any case not later than 20 working days after the day on which the request is received
by that department or Minister of the Crown or organisation,—
(1)(a) decide whether the request is to be granted and, if it is to be granted, in what manner and for what charge (if any); and
(1)(b) give or post to the person who made the request notice of the decision on the request
[If we are unable to make a decision on your request by the date noted above, we will notify you of an extension of that timeframe.]