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Te Pū rauemi KOWHEORI-19 COVID-19 resource hub

Support for people working in health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Find information about how you can support yourselves and others, including consumers, teams and colleagues which complements and aligns with Ministry of Health resources.

Kia āta kōwhiri Choosing Wisely

The Choosing Wisely campaign seeks to reduce harm from unnecessary and low-value tests and treatment.

Below are proactively released responses to Official Information Act requests. In certain circumstances, information that was released to the original requester may be redacted. This will usually be information related to the requester, for example their personal or commercial information. If you need an accessible version of any of the documents below, please get in touch: info@hqsc.govt.nz


Recent requests

Date published Response date
Request topic Download/view pdf
15 December 2023 23 November 2023 Use of te reo Māori Use of te reo Māori (1MB, pdf)
15 December 2023 17 November 2023 ‘Our Voices: The journey to healthy
futures’ expenditure
‘Our Voices: The journey to healthy
futures’ expenditure (1MB, pdf)
1 August 2023 26 May 2023 Police tasers in mental health facilities, and survey responses for inpatient mental health services users in the Ngā Poutama survey Police tasers in mental health facilities, and survey responses for inpatient mental health services users in the Ngā Poutama survey (162KB, pdf)
1 August 2023 3 April 2023 Toitū certification Toitū certification (84KB, pdf)
1 August 2023 10 March 2023 Numbers of adverse events Numbers of adverse events (120KB, pdf)
5 December 2022 28 November 2022 Harm from prescription errors Harm from prescription errors (238KB, pdf)
15 November 2022 11 November 2022 Media query process Media query process (167KB, pdf)
15 November 2022 27 October 2022 Adult patient experience survey Adult patient experience survey (197KB, pdf)
15 November 2022 20 September 2022 Health Quality & Safety Commission pay bands Health Quality & Safety Commission pay bands (226KB, pdf)
15 November 2022 19 August 2022 21/22 financial year expenditure 21/22 financial year expenditure (138KB, pdf)
15 November 2022 9 August 2022 SAC1 and 2 adverse event data relating to the lack of fixed wing air transfer capacity SAC1 and 2 adverse event data relating to the lack of fixed wing air transfer capacity (174KB, pdf)
15 November 2022 27 July 2022 Year end statistics for 2021/2022 Year end statistics for 2021/2022 (138KB, pdf)
15 November 2022 21 July 2022 Adverse events by clinical area Adverse events by clinical area (215KB, pdf)
15 November 2022 15 July 2022 Consumer groups at the Commission Consumer groups at the Commission (138KB, pdf)
22 August 2022 14 April 2022 Information concerning reported Severity Assessment Code 1 and 2 adverse events, in relation to the COVID-19 Care in the Community 
programme
COVID adverse events (264KB, pdf)
22 August 2022 17 June 2022 Information about consumer groups
at the Commission
Information about consumer groups
at the Commission (174KB, pdf)
23 May 2022 9 May 2022 Information about Commission staff FTE Information about staff FTE (168KB, pdf)
30 June 2021  18 June 2021 HQSC156 - Data about Pacific family violence   Data about Pacific family violence (240KB, pdf)
30 June 2021 10 June 2021 HQSC155 – Email communications about current influenza and Pfizer vaccinations underway in New Zealand Email communications about current influenza and Pfizer vaccinations underway in New Zealand (200KB, pdf)
30 June 2021 26 May 2021 HQSC154 – Public health employee salaries Public health employee salaries (197KB, pdf)
30 June 2021 4 May 2021 HQSC153 – High mortality and neonatal High mortality and neonatal (1MB, pdf)
30 June 2021 5 May 2021 HQSC152 – Ninth POMRC report questions Ninth POMRC report questions (307KB, pdf)
30 June 2021 13 April 2021 HQSC151 – Charging for official information act request Charging for official information act request (1MB, pdf)
30 June 2021 25 February 2021 HQSC150 – Waikato DHB reports modified request Waikato DHB reports modified requests (146KB, pdf)
30 June 2021 11 February 2021 HQSC149 – Waikato DHB reports Waikato DHB reports (279K, pdf)
12 January 2021 10 December 2020 HQSC148 – Chief executive and senior staff pay status Chief executive and senior staff pay status (240KB, pdf)
12 January 2021 4 December 2020 HQSC147 – PMMRC data request PMMRC data request (379KB, pdf)
12 January 2021 10 December 2020 HQSC146 – Adverse events data
Adverse events data (657KB, pdf)
12 January 2021 6 November 2020 HQSC145 – Mental health facilities Mental health facilities (182KB, pdf)
12 January 2021 5 August 2020 HQSC141 – Removal of private information Removal of private information (873KB, pdf)

Patient experience survey privacy impact assessment report (843KB, pdf)
12 January 2021 14 July 2020 HQSC136 – Adverse events – inpatient suicides Adverse events – inpatient suicides (449KB, pdf)
12 January 2021 16 July 2020 HQSC135 – Window 2019 content on racism Window 2019 content on racism (208KB, pdf)
12 January 2021 13 July 2020  HQSC139 – Correspondence with the Minister of Health about mental health and addiction service provision within district health boards Correspondence with the Minister of Health about mental health and addiction service provision within district health boards (130KB, pdf)
24 December 2020 2 July 2020 HQSC137 – Use of firearms in violence against women Use of firearms in violence against women (337KB, pdf)
24 December 2020 2 July 2020 HQSC134 – New Zealand Drug Foundation New Zealand Drug Foundation (51KB, pdf)
24 December 2020 7 May 2020 HQSC133 – COVID-19 voluntary pay cut COVID-19 voluntary pay cut (106KB, pdf)
24 December 2020 7 May 2020 HQSC132 – Personal information held by the Health Quality & Safety Commission Personal information held by the Health Quality & Safety Commission (48KB, pdf)
24 December 2020 2 April 2020 HQSC131 – Official information request for WRGPI Claims for toxicity WRGPI claims for toxicity (41KB, pdf)
24 December 2020 27 March 2020 HQSC129 – Adverse events Adverse events (50KB, pdf)
24 December 2020 24 March 2020 HQSC127 – Adverse events – unauthorised access to restricted areas Adverse events – unauthorised access to restricted areas (181KB, pdf)
24 December 2020 11 March HQSC128 – MC personnel MC personnel (46KB, pdf)
24 December 2020 21 February 2020 HQSC126 – Serious incident reviews – mental health response Serious incident reviews – mental health response (126KB, pdf)
24 December 2020 21 February 2020 HQSC124 – Adverse events – unauthorised access to restricted areas Adverse events – unauthorised access to restricted areas (155KB, pdf)
24 December 2020 4 October 2019 HQSC121 – Termination of pregnancy 32 weeks gestation from 13th PMMRC annual report Official information for termination of pregnancy 32 weeks gestation from 13th PMMRC annual report (66KB, pdf)
24 December 2020 3 October 2019 HQSC120 – Pregnancy termination statistics Official information for pregnancy termination statistics (47KB, pdf)
24 December 2020 2 October 2019 HQSC122 – Intended vs actual place of birth among neonatal encephalopathy cases Intended vs actual place of birth among neonatal encephalopathy cases (182KB, pdf)
24 December 2020 1 October 2019 HQSC119 – Radio Spectrum Radio Spectrum (178KB, pdf)
24 December 2020 6 September 2019 HQSC118 – Use of and cost for psychometric testing Use of and cost for psychometric testing (66KB, pdf)
24 December 2020 6 September 2019 HQSC117 – Adverse events suspected suicides Adverse events suspected suicides (683KB, pdf)
24 December 2020 31 July 2019 HQSC116 – Gonville Health Gonville Health (4.6MB, pdf)
24 December 2020 8 July 2019 HQSC115 – Social media influencers Social Media Influencers (71KB, pdf)
Last updated: 15th December, 2023