Telehealth Appointments

 I write in response to your Official Information Act request received by us 24th August 2020, you requested the following information:

• Average number of telehealth appointments conducted at your DHB per week in November 2019 (or another month pre-pandemic)
• Average number of telehealth appointments conducted at your DHB per week in April 2020?
• Average number of telehealth appointments conducted at your DHB per week in the most recent week you have data for (July/Aug 2020)?
• If possible, a breakdown of what kind of appointments these were, ie via phone or video consultation, would be really helpful.

If you don’t collect this kind of data, can you provide me with any information regarding your DHB’s use of telehealth before Covid-19, whether this increased during the first lockdown and whether use of telehealth has continued as the country reduced alert levels?

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• OIA24082020 MCBETH Telehealth Appointments Redacted