Dear Amy

Official information request.

I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your official information request
dated 22 March regarding Best Practice: Archiving, Storage, Biobanking of
Human Tissue for Diagnostic Purposes.

It should be noted that many key staff involved with the sourcing and
preparation of material for your OIA request are also directly involved
with work associated with COVID-19.

 

This may impact on our ability to respond to certain OIA requests within
normal timeframes. If this is the case we will notify you as soon
practical.

 

We received your request on 23 March. We will endeavour to respond to your
request as soon as possible and in any event no later than 22 April 2020,
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

 

 

Hi

Please find attached the signed response to your OIA request.

 

Many thanks

 

Caroline

In response to your request, I can confirm that the answers that CCDHB and HVDHB provided in their response H20_21-46 / OIA 2020/051 also applies to Wairarapa DHB.

Please note that all of the testing is provided by Wellington SCL. No anatomical pathology is performed onsite in the Wairarapa Hospital Laboratory.

Caroline van Deventer | Communications Administrator
Wairarapa DHB
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-----Original Message-----
From: Amy S Van Wey Lovatt <[FOI #12530 email]>
Sent: Friday, 29 May 2020 1:24 p.m.
To: OIA Request [WrDHB] <[email address]>
Subject: Re: W20-440 signed response.pdf

Dear OIA Request [WrDHB],

Thank you for your response to my OIA request. Given that WrDHB contracts out their pathology services, I respectfully request that WrDHB transfer my OIA request to the appropriate agency, pursuant to section 14 of the OIA.

Yours sincerely,

Amy S Van Wey Lovatt

-----Original Message-----

Hi

Please find attached the signed response to your OIA request.

 

Many thanks

 

Caroline

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