21 April 2019
Te Ringa Manu Mihaka
Email: [FYI request #9896 email]
Re: Official Information Act
Dear Te Ringa Manu Mihaka
I am responding on behalf of Hauora Tairāwhiti (Tairāwhiti DHB) to your OIA Request of 17 April
2019.
Our response to your request:
“…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".”
Hauora Tairāwhiti has not contracted with Ngā Hau e Wha.
If you are not satisfied with this response you may contact the Office of the Ombudsmen, phone
0800 802 602.
Please note this response, or an edited version of this response, may be published on the Hauora
Tairāwhiti DHB website. Your personal/identifying information will be redacted from any
responses published.
If you feel that there are good reasons why your response should not be made publicly available,
we will be happy to consider this.
Ngā mihi,
Briar Hunter
Communications Advisor
Hauora Tairāwhiti