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2 7 May 2019 T +64 4 496 2000 M I N l \lR\'OI HEALTH 133 Molesworth St PO Box 5013 Wellington 6145 New Zealand 2 7 MAY 2019 T +64 4 496 2000 Response to your request for official information I refer to your email of 11 March 2019 to the Ministry of Health (the Ministry) requesting under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act): "how many appendicectomies (laparoscopiclopen) were done in NZ in 2017 or 2018 (most recent data). Is there also data on how many people had a diagnosis of appendicitis from the same calendar months. Is there data on this by DHB/hospital as we are looking at the service provision of rural hospitals in comparison to metropolitan hospitals for acute care surgery - part of a publication. I can access Australian data from Medicare billing online but we have no equivalent" Information in response to your request is attached in Appendix One. I trust this information fulfils your request. Please note that th is response (with your details removed) may be published on the Ministry website. Yours sincerely Shayne Hunter Deputy Director-General Data and Digital Appendix One Appendicectomy and Appendicitis publicly funded hospital discharges, 201 7/18 Appendicectomy = ICD-10-AM-VI codes 3057200, 3057100 Appendicitis= ICD-10-AM-VI codes K35-K37 Data as at 22 May 2019 Number of events with an Number of events with Number of events with both an appendicectomy an appendicitis primary appendicectomy procedure code and procedure code diagnosis an aooendicitis primary diagnosis 3111 Ashburton Hospital 16 3214 Middlemore Hospital 442 466 400 3215 North Shore Hospital 703 622 562 3216 Waitakere Hospital 60 3250 Manukau Surgery Centre 10 4 4 3260 Auckland City Hospital 864 785 722 3311 Whakatane Hospital 47 46 41 3411 Gisborne Hospital 74 65 58 3612 Hawkes Bay Hospital 225 193 180 3613 Wairoa Hospital & Health Centre 3 3811 Wairau Hospital 45 53 43 3911 Nelson Hospital 110 110 99 4011 Christchurch Hospital 746 734 673 4021 Kaikoura Hospital 6 4111 Whangarei Hospital 198 193 171 4112 Kaitaia Hospital 10 4113 Dargaville Hospital 1 4114 Bay of Islands Hospital 3 4115 Hokianga Hospital 2 4211 Dunedin Hospital 202 188 164 4311 Palmerston North Hospital 275 221 210 4411 Timaru Hospital 92 83 78 4511 Southland Hospital 157 153 137 451 3 Lakes District Hospital 21 4711 Taranaki Base Hospital 143 124 111 4811 Taumarunui 2 4911 Tauranga Hospital 265 257 229 5011 Thames Hospital 9 18 7 511 1 Dunstan Hospital 10 5311 Waikato Hospital 546 440 41 8 5312 Rotorua Hospital 141 136 122 5313 Te Kuiti Hospital and Family Hea lth Team 1 5323 To koroa Hospital 8 5329 Taupo Hospital 20 5511 Wairarapa Hospital 43 42 33 5611 Oamaru Hospital 13 5711 Whanganui Hospital 98 88 78 5811 Wellington 41 2 358 342 5812 Hutt Valley Hospital 206 189 170 5816 Kenepuru 2 5911 Grey Base Hospital 30 38 27 5918 Buller Health 1 7000 MacMurray Surgical Centre 1 8255 Gillies Hospital 1 8366 St George's Hospital 4 1 1 8377 Southern Cross Hospital Christchurch 7 5 5 8432 Wakefield Hospital 1 Total 6,097 5,791 5,085 .
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