Requested by: Union - APEX | Response provided: 15/08/2019
Category: Medical,Surgical,Hospital Capacity,Waiting Times,Recruitment

I write in response to your Official Information Act request, dated 22 July 2019. You requested the information related to the Medical Imaging Technology workforce at CM Health, as outlined in the document (attached) to this letter. We have responded to each of the questions below, noting where we do not hold collated retrospective information.

For each of the quarters beginning Q3 2017 through to Q3 2019 (inclusive of both) could you please provide:

Quarterly totals, separated by modality, of DHB expenditure on outsourcing examinations in the following imaging modalities:

  • General X-ray/plain films;
  • CT;
  • MRI;
  • Angiography and Cath Lab;
  • Mammography.

Quarterly total numbers of outsourced examinations in the following imaging modalities:

  • General X-ray/plain films;
  • CT;
  • MRI;
  • Angiography and Cath Lab;
  • Mammography.

Budgeted FTE and Actual FTE figures at the last day of each quarter (but for the present quarter the most up-to-date data available at the time of your response to this request) separated out by the following:

  • General X-ray/plain films;
  • CT;
  • MRI;
  • Nuclear Medicine;
  • Angiography and Cath Lab;
  • Mammography;
  • RIS/PACS;
  • Radiology Assistants.

 Quarterly totals of ‘Weekend Work Penalty Clause’ payments made pursuant to Clause 8.0 of the APEX & DHBs MRT MECA.

  • If the data is available, please provide anonymised totals for individual employees.

Quarterly expenditure on overtime payments made under Clause 7.5 of the MRT MECA due to employees not being provided with an adequate continuous break.

 

Could you please also provide the following:

Average Wait times - Complete data for the below table for in-patients by Urgency - as at   July 2019

 Urgent, High Suspicion of Cancer, Semi-urgent, Non-urgent

  • MRI
  • Nuclear Medicine
  • Mammography
  • CT
  • Angiography/ Cardiology
  • Fluoroscopy
  • Theatre
  • Emergency - General
  • General - Other

Average Wait times Complete data for the below table for out-patients by Urgency - as at   July 2019

 Urgent, High Suspicion of Cancer, Semi-urgent, Non-urgent

  • MRI
  • Nuclear Medicine
  • Mammography
  • CT
  • Angiography/ Cardiology
  • Fluoroscopy
  • Theatre
  • Emergency - General
  • General - Other

The following details on all current vacancies/ advertised positions for all employees whose work falls within the coverage clause of the MRT MECA – (i.e. all MIT, MRI, etc.) roles.

  • Position title.
  • FTE of the role, broken down bymodality where applicable.
  • How many weeks the role has gone unfilled/how long the role has been advertised for, whichever is longer.

 

Our response is attached

 

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