Te Whatu Ora - Waitematā, like other agencies across the state sector, supports the open disclosure of information to assist the public’s understanding of how we are delivering publicly-funded healthcare.
This includes the proactive publication of anonymised Official Information Act responses on our website from 10 working days after they have been released.
Te Whatu Ora - Waitematā began publishing Official Information Act responses online in mid-2018. Click below to see a list of responses.
All Te Whatu Ora OIA responses proactively released from 1 January 2023 are available here.
Before making a request under the Official Information Act, check to see whether the information you are interested in is already publicly available.
To submit a request please email Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand at hnzOIA@health.govt.nz.
OIA response - Number of frontline medical staff with COVID-19
OIA response - Breakdown of mental health seclusion rates
OIA response - Community based attachments
OIA response - Complaints against mental health services
OIA response - Contracts with health partners
OIA Response - Gynaecology services
OIA response - Number of communications and media staff
OIA response - Outsourced elective procedures and surgeries
OIA response - Paediatric trauma and injury
OIA response - Policy on mixed gender hospital accomodation
OIA response - Preparation for winter illnesses
OIA Response - Wait times for specialist appointments and surgery
OIA response - Waitakere Hospital visitor policy and door incidents
OIA response - Mental health assessments conducted for the courts
OIA response - Pregnancy and perinatal data
OIA response - Grants made to people or groups incl Maori wardens
OIA Response - Assaults on staff
OIA Response - Mental health referral trends children and young people
OIA Response - DHB records of assaults on patients
OIA Response - Maternal mental health referrals
OIA Response - Wait times elective surgery and cancer treatment
OIA Response - Covid 19 theraputic drugs
OIA Response - Number of patients undergoing colonoscopy
OIA Response - Use of remdesivir and ventilators Covid 19
OIA Response - Alcohol related harm
OIA Response - Criteria and waiting times for weight loss surgery
OIA Response - Alcohol related harm
OIA Response - Auckland Wellbeing Collaborative
OIA Response - Use of cobalt devices for hip replacement surgery
OIA Response - Cost of daily care COVID 19 patients
OIA Response - ADHD assessments
OIA Response - Donations and bequests over $200,000
OIA Response - Information on dieticians
OIA Response - Health workers testing positive for Covid 19
OIA Response - Covid 19 remuneration arrangements
OIA Response - Crime scene cleaners
OIA Response - Hospital admissions Covid 19
OIA Response - Covid 19 hospitalisations
OIA Response - Cost of Covid 19 testing centres
OIA Response - Pregnant women with Covid 19
OIA Response - Asian mental health services
OIA Response - NZ Sign language interpreters
OIA Response - Mental health procedural information
OIA Response - Speech language therapy provided for people with stutter
OIA Response - Carbon neutrality accountability
OIA Response - Hospitalisations soley for Covid 19
OIA Response - Palliative care funding and staff numbers
OIA Response - Policy on media access post Covid 19
OIA Response - Psychologists at WDHB
OIA Response - Myocarditis and Covid 19 admissions
OIA Response - Heart related issues 2021 compared to previous years
OIA Response - Mental health vacancies over past three years and COVID 19 impacts
OIA Response - Number of CA 125 tests performed
OIA Response - Number of days hospitals spent in code red or code black
OIA Response - Sports related concussions protocols
OIA Response - Waiting list for skin cancer referrals
OIA Response - Vouchers used for emergency department
OIA Response - Number of ICU beds
OIA Response - RMO and SMO vacancies
OIA Response - Staff absences and return to work
OIA Response - Use of cobalt devices for hip replacement surgery
OIA Response - Eldernet agreement and information
OIA Response - Pregnancy and Covid 19
OIA Response - Caesarean sections and tubal ligations
OIA Response - Operating theatre availability
OIA Response - Hospital alert system from Jan 2022
OIA Response - Use of medical centre vouchers for ED patients
OIA Response - Assaults on DHB staff
OIA Response - Cancelled surgeries procedures and assessments
OIA Response - Cost of care for COVID 19 positive patients
OIA Response - Guidelines for investigating specific medical conditions
OIA Response - Data on miscarriages neonatal deaths and surveillance
OIA Response - Cancer misdiagnosis and delayed diagnosis
OIA Response - Bone density DEXA scans
OIA Response - Bed numbers for aged residential care
OIA response - Mental health vacancies over past three years and COVID 19 impacts
OIA Response - Sentinel events during birth
OIA Response - Live in treatment and detox facilities
OIA Response - Documents regarding refrigerated containers to used for COVID 19 deaths
OIA Response - Vaccination status of mothers experiencing stillbirth or neonatal death
OIA Response - Use of Ernst Young for reviews and projects
OIA Response - Oranga Tamariki children in mental health services
OIA Response - Cost of Covid 19 checkpoints at hospitals and facilities
OIA Response - Electrical switch rooms with fire supression systems
OIA Response - Media communications and interviews prevented during Covid 19 Delta outbreak
OIA Response - Covid 19 patients identified as illicit substance users or addicts
OIA Response - Cost of Emergency Q app in EDs
OIA Response - Violence and aggression against nurses
OIA Response - Hospital level admissions during Covid 19 Delta outbreak
OIA Response - Monthly stillbirth rate Nov 2020 Nov 2021
OIA Response - Requests for CA 125 blood tests during 2020
OIA Response - Guidelines and protocols for management of specific conditions
OIA Response - Board level committees where minutes are not made public
OIA Response - Causes of fetal and neonatal deaths since June 2020
OIA Response - Criteria for admitting COVID 19 patient to hospital
OIA Response - GP practices and number of enrolled patients
OIA Response - ICU bed utilisation rates
OIA Response - Immunisation rates for Maori and Pacific children
OIA Response - Maternity services data from 2010
OIA Response - Model used to assess suicide risk
OIA Response - Number of bariatric surgeries from 2015 2020
OIA Response - Number of ICU staff single or double vaccinated
OIA Response - Number of pharmacists technicians interns prescribers etc
OIA Response - Policy regarding covert surveillance of staff
OIA Response - Crown Law decision about unfunded cancer chemotherapy
OIA Response - DHB contractors in tier 12 or 3 management positions
OIA Response - Documents regarding refrigerated containers to used for COVID 19 deaths
OIA Response - GP practices and number of enrolled patients
OIA Response - ICU bed utilisation rates
OIA Response - Immunisation rates for Maori and Pacific children
OIA Response - Model used to assess suicide risk
OIA Response - Patients treated for gunshot wounds and stabbing injuries 2020 2021
OIA Response - Number of ICU staff single or double vaccinated
OIA Response - Referrals for trans vaginal ultrasounds referrals from a community GP
OIA Response - Number of nurses that have completed ICU online training
OIA Response - Documents relating to campaign in West Auckland to remove licensing trust
OIA Response - Decline in cervical and breast screening targets
OIA Response - COVID-19 treatment protocol
OIA Response - Community based isolation and quarantine plan
OIA Response - Outpatient radiology assessments
OIA Response - Medical day-stay (non-oncology) infusion
OIA Response - OIA response times
OIA Response - COVID-19 Alert Level policies
OIA Response - ICU beds and CPAC thresholds
OIA Response - Cervical screening
OIA Response - Contingency plan for community outbreak of COVID-19
OIA Response - code black or code red alerts
OIA Response - joint replacement wait list
OIA Response - staff numbers and redundancies, infusion set stock levels
OIA Response - dog-related injuries in children
OIA Response - gifts to staff from pharmaceutical companies
OIA Response - ethnicity of psychiatrists
OIA Response - spending on Asian mental health
OIA Response - interhospital transfers
OIA Response - Aged Residential Care (ARC) facilities during COVID-19
OIA Response - ICU costs for non-eligible patients
OIA Response - hospital pathology service contracts
OIA Response - mental health inpatient data
OIA Response - challenged coronial findings
OIA Response - HPV Gardasil vaccine in schools
OIA Response - Provision of HPV vaccine in schools
OIA response - Marae accessibility for Maori
OIA response - patients seen in relation to nitrous oxide
OIA response - digital dictation
OIA response - patients in isolation
OIA response - mental health facilities
OIA response - oncology beds, projected service delivery costs, wage and service negotiations
OIA response - children's health conditions
OIA response - staff vacancies
OIA response - complaints and feedback
OIA response - employment of NZ sign language interpreter
OIA response - women's health service wait times
OIA response - flexing of theatres and delayed surgeries
OIA response - diabetic retinal screening
OIA response - wait times for diabetic retinopathy screening
OIA response - mental health inpatient deaths
OIA response - diabetic retinopathy screening
OIA response - hospital admissions with malnutrition
OIA response - costs of casual and outsourced staff
OIA response - did not attend numbers for appointments
OIA response - mental health facilities
OIA response - non-resident admissions
OIA response - measles vaccination campaign
OIA response - living wage employer
OIA response - tenders for pathology services
OIA response - Mobile dental provider funding
OIA response - methadone dispensing
OIA response - Aged Residential Care
OIA response - equipment sterilisation
OIA response - Radiology imaging equipment
OIA response - hospital beds and maternity admissions
OIA response - Medical evacuations COVID-19
OIA response - ED and ADU wait times and patient numbers
OIA response - NZ sign language interpreting contracts
OIA response - Waitemata DHB Annual Reports
OIA response - hip and knee replacements
OIA response - patient information and data sharing at DHBs
OIA response - mental health unit data
OIA response - art owned by the DHB
OIA response - Pacific heritage of Board members
OIA response - Remuneration and gender in health
OIA response - formal complaints
OIA response - sensitive expenditure
OIA response - alcohol-related harm
OIA response - urgent care services
OIA response - surgery threshold
OIA response - Maori and non-Maori referrals and prescriptions
OIA response - mental health servcies for Maori and non-Maori
OIA response - Total Recordable Injury Frequency Rate (TRIFR) data
OIA supplementary response - Total Recordable Injury Frequency Rate (TRIFR) data
OIA response - staff incidents
OIA response - gunshot and stabbing injuries
OIA response - theft of items from hospitals
OIA response - mental health prescriptions
OIA response - COVID-19 alert level visitor policies
OIA response - ICU occupancy rates
OIA response - hospital midwifery services
OIA response - corporate office salaries, consultants and IT projects
OIA response - non-resident patient debt
OIA response - retained surgical equipment
OIA response - paediatric ED admissions
OIA response - women's pelvic health
OIA response - ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorders
OIA response - Chemist Warehouse
OIA response - data on age of mothers who gave birth
OIA response - foreign nationals invoiced for health services
OIA response - assaults on health workers
Supplementary OIA response - assaults on health workers
OIA response - prefabricated buildings
OIA response - storage of human tissue
Supplementary OIA response - storage of human tissue
OIA response - occupational therapists
OIA response - Oranga Tamariki
OIA response - CPR stats in hospitals
OIA response - CADS policies regarding bodysearches
OIA response - gender dysphoria
OIA response - children overdue for oral health examinations
OIA response - perinatal depression
OIA response - annual leave RMOs
OIA response - Consumer Council process
OIA response - annual leave SMOs
OIA response - RMO medical year
OIA response - mental health facilities
OIA response - elective services Maori and Pasifika policy
OIA response - Crohn's and colitis-related illnesses
OIA response - payments made to medical colleges
OIA response - ethnicity and earnings data
OIA response - Maori patients and clinicians in mental health services
OIA response - directives regarding Oranga Tamariki
OIA response - Health and Safety information regarding COVID-19
OIA response - Waitakere Hospital staff positive COVID-19 test
OIA response - harassments and assaults
OIA response - St Margaret's Hospital COVID-19 cluster
OIA response - community pharmacy contracts
OIA response - utilities project
OIA response - allegations of bullying or harassment
OIA response - cost of paging systems
OIA response - haemochromatosis assessment criteria
OIA response - Measles data and costs
OIA response - cost of Wuhan evacuation and quarantine
OIA response - Transfer of residents from St Margaret's resthome
OIA response - human tissue for diagnostic purposes
OIA response - documentation regarding St Margaret's hospital
OIA response - endocrinology services
OIA response - use of requisitioning powers
OIA response - COVID-19 hospitalisation and mortality rates
OIA response - COVID-19 outbreak at St Margaret's hospital
OIA response - births during coronavirus lockdown
OIA response - surgical mask use of patients transferred
OIA response - COVID-19 deaths
OIA response - electroconvulsive devices
OIA response - referral information
OIA response - Asbestos management plans
OIA response - mental health patients
OIA response - COVID-19 pandemic preparations
OIA response - costs related to White Island incident
OIA response - elective surgery impact post White Island
OIA response - disability support services
OIA response - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
OIA response - holter monitoring
OIA response - budget for population nutrition promotion
OIA response - sexual harassment complaints
OIA response - PGY1 House Officer positions
OIA response - informed consent
OIA response - Electroconvulsive Therapy costs
OIA response - construction projects
OIA response - calls to mental health crisis team
OIA response - capital and infrastructure expenditure
OIA response - West Adult Community Mental Health Services
OIA response - surgical resignation
OIA response - deaths attributed to flu
OIA response - medical notes and documents
OIA response - dental ED presentations
OIA response - chronic pain services
OIA response - colonoscopy rates
OIA response - debts incurred by ineligible/overseas patients
OIA response - external consultants
OIA response - breast reconstruction budget
OIA response - forensic staffing
OIA response - staff who have contracted vaccine-preventable illnesses
OIA response - laboratory workers strike
OIA response - Asian health services
OIA response - staff immunisation
OIA response - infrastructure works contractor
OIA response - informed consent
OIA response - bullying, harassment complaints
OIA response - staff shortages
OIA response - measles clinics
OIA response - colonoscopy rates for Maori
OIA response - CCDM council minutes
OIA response - SLA Agreement with Police
OIA response - mental health staff and service data
OIA response - HPV vaccine outcomes
OIA response - residential care complaints
OIA response - bullying and harassment
OIA response - mental health complaints
OIA response - gender identity
OIA response - mastectomies and breast reconstruction surgeries
OIA response - measles management
OIA response - firearms and stabbing injuries
OIA response - child and adolescent mental health
OIA response - electronic health records
OIA response - babies born to mothers on illegal drugs
OIA response - cost of weight loss surgery performed
OIA response - staff disciplined for social media use
OIA response - Mason Clinic policies
OIA response - vaccination and immunisation rates among health workers
OIA response - youth health care in secondary schools
OIA response - He Puna Waiora review
OIA response - maternity staffing
OIA response - cost of treating ineligible patients
OIA response - publicly funded fertility treatment
OIA response - transgender patients
OIA response - cancer treatment wait times
OIA response - National Bowel Screening Programme
OIA response - primary health provider contract terminations
OIA response - ethnic diversity
OIA response - priority spending and cancer treatment
OIA response - board minutes regarding NCHIP
OIA response - mental health outpatient care
OIA response - termination of pregnancy funding
OIA response - number of hired PGY1 house officers
OIA response - Auckland Regional Dental Service vacancies
OIA response - staff who have contracted measles
OIA response - clinical priority assessment criteria threshold level
OIA response - maternity transfers
OIA response - RMO strike information
OIA response - overdue/unreturned medical equipment
OIA response - assaults on staff
OIA response - psychologist numbers
OIA response - complaints concerning clinical staff
OIA response - sonographer numbers
OIA response - self-harm incidents
OIA response - patient deaths in mental health units
OIA response - Elective Surgery Centre staffing
OIA response - Waitakere Hospital redevelopment
OIA response (part one) - operation of He Puna Waiora
OIA response (part two) - operation of He Puna Waiora
OIA response - mental health doctor vacancies
OIA response - assistance for social services
OIA response - Elective Surgery Centre staffing
OIA response - remediation of fire-stopping deficiencies
OIA response - gender-affirming healthcare services
OIA response - gender-affirming healthcare provided
OIA response - information regarding Nga Hau E Wha
OIA response - infant feeding policies and practices
OIA response - infrastructure works
OIA response - assaults against nursing staff
OIA response - mesh procedures
OIA response - Senior Medical Officer cover costs during strikes
OIA response - healthcare policy development
OIA response - passive fire defects
OIA response - school dental data
OIA response - use of physical and mechanical restraints
OIA response - maternity staffing numbers
OIA response - North Shore Hospital infrastructure works
OIA response - medical staff numbers
OIA response - hospital assaults
OIA response - incident reports
OIA response - prescribed antidepressants
OIA response - assaults on staff
OIA response - Maori and disability
OIA response - inpatient meals
OIA response - home and community support contract holders
OIA response - DHB rural adjuster fund
OIA response - termination of pregnancy
OIA response - cancer care waiting times
OIA response - RMO strike information
OIA response - recorded suicides
OIA response - Maori representation
OIA response - publicly funded fertility treatment
OIA response - postponed or cancelled operations due to strike
OIA response - issues-based audits into resthomes
OIA response - maternal mental health
OIA response - maternal mental health wait times
OIA response - bariatric surgery
OIA response - PET-CT scanning
OIA response - issues-based audits and investigations
OIA response - advertising spending
OIA response - assaults on staff
OIA response - car parking costs
OIA response - infrastructure works tender
OIA response - oral health data
OIA response - ACC treatment-related injury
OIA response - health and safety complaints
OIA response - patients referred to private providers
OIA response - unfilled vacancies
OIA response - adverse drug reactions
OIA response - FASD assessments
OIA response - Waitakere Hospital patient numbers
OIA response - number of STD checks
OIA response - patients under influence of methamphetamine
OIA response - bed occupancy rates
OIA response - National Oracle Solution
OIA response - injuries to staff
OIA response - accessing of pornography on work computers
OIA response - social media influencers and celebrities
OIA response - video gaming addiction
OIA response - security report Mason clinic
OIA response - He Puna Waiora policy
OIA response - funding for facility based care at resthomes
OIA response - number of unfilled RMO roles
OIA response - nurses, midwives covered by clause in MECA
Publish OIA response - surgical mesh
Publish OIA response - Maori providers
OIA response - complaints made against staff
OIA response - child and adolescent mental health referrals
OIA response - cost of redundancies
OIA response - surgery cancellation rates
OIA response - budget spent on hospital medicines
OIA response - cardiac ultrasound wait times
OIA response - MECA Schedule 10
OIA response - number of psychologists
OIA response - cost of treatment for ineligible dialysis patients
OIA response - number of dental and oral health therapists
OIA response - patient wait times
OIA response - clinical psychologists
OIA response - parking fee waivers
OIA response - draft suicide prevention plan
OIA response - missed specialist appointments
OIA response - child and youth mental health wait times
OIA response - mobile health clinics
OIA response - trespass notices
OIA response - zero suicide prevention policy
OIA response - service level agreement between mental health service and police
OIA response - surgical waiting lists
OIA response - leave from mental health inpatient units
OIA response - short staffing incident reports
OIA response - after-hours care
OIA response - mental health staffing numbers
OIA response - transgender care
OIA response - employee expense and pay claims
OIA response - assisted deliveries and caesarean section births
OIA response - number of babies born
OIA response - sexual assault offences by medical practitioners
OIA response - maternity bed numbers
OIA response - radiology examination data
OIA response - aggression incidents towards staff
OIA response - school oral health data
OIA response - school dental stats
OIA response - board processes
OIA response - mains and back-up power supply
OIA response - car parking income
OIA response - spending on support for attempted suicide patients