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Request NumberRequest SummaryDate PostedDepartment
HCS/212/2022 Between the period of September, 2019 to September, 2022: Copies of letters, emails sent to/from the Department of Health and Community Services and various individuals with the words " Diagnostic Mammography", "Breast Cancer" and "Accreditation". Copies of all emails, letters, correspondences between the Department of Health and Community Services and Central Health Authority with the words " Accreditation of Mammography", "Breast Screening program in Central Health", "Accreditation by the Canadian Association of Radiologists".2022-10-31Health and Community Services
HCS/210/2022 Any and all records concerning October 10, 2019 letter from Drs. Dalton, Rendell and Kennedy to Karen Stone, Deputy Minister, Re: Central Health Patient Safety and Quality Care Issues. This should a search of then executive and Minister emails, draft replies, briefing notes etc.2022-10-31Health and Community Services
HCS/127/2022 Information relating to Western Health laundry contract.2022-07-25Health and Community Services
HCS/137/2022 The briefing binder for Estimates Committee 2022-23.2022-06-02Health and Community Services
HCS/70/2022 Please provide any and all communications, including email, texts, and phone call records, etc. between Dr. Teresa Tam and any employee of the Gov't of Newfoundland where the subject matter includes COVID-19 and/or COVID-19 Vaccines.2022-06-02Health and Community Services
HCS/375/2021 On October 8, 2021 a conference call was held between the Minister of Health, Dr. John Haggie and faith group leaders. A financial incentive was offered to Faith Based Organizations to implement the Vaccine Passport. How much money was given to the Faith Based Organizations? Please break down the amount based on Church/ Denomination?2021-12-16Health and Community Services
HCS/315/2021[1] I am requesting a copy of the report from a mental health review initiated for [individual] in [month] 2021 at the Labrador Grenfell Health Centre.2021-11-30Health and Community Services
HCS/197/2020 Records relating to Opioid litigation and participation in an action to recover health care costs pertaining to opioid use, side effects and/or addiction, including recovery under the Health Care Costs Recovery Act, SBC 2008, c. 27 and/or parallel legislation in other provinces and territories.2021-11-02Health and Community Services
HCS/51/2021 Any communication (emails, briefing notes, reports, etc.) between Minister Haggie or his executive staff and Moya Greene or any other member of the Premier's Economic Recovery Team. Time period September 2020 to present.2021-11-02Health and Community Services
HCS/43/2021 I wish to obtain any and all records concerning diagnostic overshadowing of patients with mental illnesses including, but not limited to, memos, reports, studies and briefing notes since January 2018.2021-11-02Health and Community Services
HCS/215/2021 A copy of the plan to which Minister Haggie referred in an NTV news item on Tuesday, August 3 for addressing the physician shortage and/or how the province provides health care, containing a short, medium and long term approach assesses the supply and demand for physicians in the province, a human resource plan for physicians, or any plans that government is taking to recruit and retain doctors.2022-04-06Health and Community Services
HCS/159/2021 Notes, emails, briefing materials, or any other materials related to the evaluation of the use of overreacting as a treatment or prevention for covid-19.2021-11-03Health and Community Services
HCS/48/2021 Complete list of donors (names) and amounts donated (per donor) to Trinity Conception Placentia Health Foundation over the most recent 5 fiscal years.2021-11-02Health and Community Services
HCS/40/2021 Provide the date when Avalon Laboratories received its accreditation to process PCR tests in Newfoundland. If PCR test processing was being conducted by Avalon Laboratories before their accreditation, provide records that show proper accreditation provide records that show proper accreditation was in place on an interim basis for Avalon Laboratories to process such tests. If no such accreditation records exist, provide records that show who or what laboratory or other entity that was accredited to process PCR tests in Newfoundland prior to Avalon Laboratories receiving their accreditation.2021-11-02Health and Community Services
HCS/201/2022 Please provide documentation on the number of requests for the government to pay at least part of the bill for patients to receive planned health care services outside of Canada during the past three fiscal years. 2022-10-14Health and Community Services
HCS/67/2022 Information relating to the Covid Alert app.2022-06-02Health and Community Services
HCS/118/2022 All correspondence that contain the term rapid antigen test.2022-04-18Health and Community Services
HCS/49/2021 I am requesting that the metrics be shared that are being used set the Alert levels in the Current Covid 19 Alert level assessment.2021-04-19Health and Community Services
HCS/182-183/2020 Records relating to Marathon Gold.2020-11-16Health and Community Services
HCS/163/2020 A list of briefing materials prepared for the deputy minister or the minister for the month of September 2020.2020-11-13Health and Community Services
HCS/70/2020 Information regarding laboratory instruments, etc.2020-09-18Health and Community Services
HCS/130/2020 Any records that mention cooperation between the Ministry of Health and a law enforcement agency with regards to immigration status, in particular CBSA and police services in the province. Also include any records that mention dealing with or providing services to Newfoundland residents without formalized legal immigration status, sometimes referred to as a "sanctuary" or "access without fear" policy. For example, the Ministry's policies with regards to patients with undocumented status accessing health services. 2020-09-17Health and Community Services
HCS/252/2021[1] All correspondence to and from the Department Executive (Minister, deputy minister, assistant deputy ministers, communications director, executive assistant as well Doctor Janice Fitzgerald and the covid19info@gov.nl.ca and healthinfo@gov.nl.ca email addresses) regarding George Street Festival 2021: timeline September 1, 2021 to present.2021-10-18Health and Community Services
HCS/192/2021 Records pertaining to the total number of calls for service for both the P1 and P2 ambulances contracted by Ryan's Ambulance Service (Trepassey, NL), the number of times the P2 ambulance contracted to Ryan's was required to respond to a call and the total number of occurrences of a "Red Alert" in the Ambulance Catchment Area of Ryan's Ambulance Service (Trepassey, NL) for the years 2018, 2019 and 2020.2021-08-27Health and Community Services
HCS/79/2021 Please could you forward information you have relating to the scientific evidence that non medical masks and six (6) feet social distancing stops the transmission of viruses.2021-04-20Health and Community Services
HCS/180/2022 All memos, briefing notes, emails and reports from the Health and Community Services office from January 1, 2020 to July 1, 2022 about a delay in critical cancer diagnoses, treatment or similar as a direct consequence of COVID-19.2022-07-26Health and Community Services
HCS/391/2021 Please provide all documentation on the isolation of sar-cov 2 samples in living human tissues. Provide all the information used to show the existence of a new and distinct virus that an emergency for the province. Include communication emails, news reports, text messages, inter-office communications, etc. Time frame from 2019-20212022-05-05Health and Community Services
HCS/338/2021 Looking for information and communication surrounding when (time and date) Premier Andrew Furey and team were notified of the cyber attack on the province's healthcare IT system. Also, looking for information (time and date) on when Premier Furey and his team, including how many staffers, left for Glasgow, Scotland to attend the COP26 Conference. 2022-01-10Health and Community Services
HCS/304/2021 Any briefing materials or other records related to lobby efforts or meetings with representatives from, or on behalf of, the Canadian Beverage Association between June 17, 2021 and Oct. 19, 2021.2021-12-14Health and Community Services
HCS/321/2021 Please provide Blaine Edwards annual salary with the department: time frame 2016 to 2020.2021-12-03Health and Community Services
HCS/112/2020[3] Request for various briefing notes from May, 2020.2020-08-31Health and Community Services
HCS/166/2022 In early April 2022, people with diabetes were quietly removed from the immunocompromised category providing eligibility for PCR COVID-19 tests in Newfoundland and Labrador. Provide any and all records regarding this change, including but not limited to the statement "guidance from the Public Health Agency of Canada, patients with diabetes were considered low risk for progression of COVID-19 to severe outcomes". Provide all internal communications - emails, briefing notes. meeting notes, and other records at DHCS regarding this change.2022-07-25Health and Community Services
HCS/144/2022 I'd like the notes, briefings, and emails that mention Sequence Bio in the last year. 2022-07-25Health and Community Services
HCS/126/2022 Any emails, documents, correspondence -- electronic and paper -- on losing psychologists from regional health authorities for private practice, from 2019 to present. Include anyone from a director level and up.2022-06-07Health and Community Services
HCS/125/2022 Effects of covid-19 on Pregnant Women.2022-05-11Health and Community Services
HCS/116/2022 I am looking for information in the custody of HCS as it relates to HCS' monitoring of the financial position of the 4 RHAs for this current fiscal year: 1) Please provide the most recent financial monitoring information provided to HCS by each RHAS. 2) Please provide the projected financial position for the current fiscal year for each RHA. 3) Please provide the project accumulated deficit for the current fiscal year for each RHA. 4) Please provide the current boring authority for each RHA. 5) Please provide the current credit line balance for each RHA.2022-05-11Health and Community Services
HCS/380/2021 Information relating to physician compensation.2022-04-06Health and Community Services
HCS/208/2021 I am looking for a report showing the total number of vaccinated people who were hospitalized after having at least one COVID-19 vaccination. No personal information required.2021-08-30Health and Community Services
HCS/197/2021 Records relating to Opioid litigation.2021-08-30Health and Community Services
HCS/188/2021 A copy of all briefing material provided or created for the Minister, Deputy Minister, Assistant Deputy Ministers for the months of May 2021 and June 2021 including drafts.2021-08-03Health and Community Services
HCS/39/2021 A copy of all the briefing notes listed in the HCS/5/2021 request that is on the atipp website. Also a list of briefing notes for the minister and deputy minister for January 2021.2021-08-03Health and Community Services
HCS/127/2021 Details on MTAP (Medical Transportation Assistance Program) program reimbursement from 2018 to present (broken down by year), amounts that were denied, and information on the total administrative cost of the MTAP program (i.e. staff).2021-05-13Health and Community Services
HCS/122/2022 Any records at a director level or higher related to COVID deaths and hospitalizations since the lifting of restrictions on March 14 to present.2022-07-25Health and Community Services
HCS/156/2022 For the date range of January 1, 2017 to June 6, 2022, all written correspondence or records of verbal or video correspondence between the Dept of Health and Community Services and the town of Pouch Cove or its representatives / staff / elected officials.2022-07-15Health and Community Services
HCS/106/2022 Any/all records, including inter- and intra-department correspondence as well as external correspondence, related to the 'sugar sweetened beverage tax' OR 'SSB tax' OR 'sugar tax' from December 1, 2021-present (March 16, 2022).2022-06-09Health and Community Services
HCS/403/2021 Please provide all hospital occupancy rates for ICU, emergency usage and general bed occupancy rates for each month of 2021 (Jan-Dec) up to and including current date Dec 20, 2021. Or latest date when the ATIPPA request is completed.2022-02-11Health and Community Services
HCS/181/2021 Please provide the risk benefit analysis of all Covid Vaccines being administered in Newfoundland and Labrador for all age groups.2021-09-10Health and Community Services
HCS/131/2021 Requesting critical care bed capacity by month (or week) for the past 5 years. If capacity has changed please note that. Date Range: January 1, 2016 - April 30, 2021.2021-05-17Health and Community Services
HCS/205/2020 Please provide a breakdown of the allocation of funds under the Safe Restart Program.2021-04-07Health and Community Services
HCS/412/2021 Records relating to COVID-19 exposures, and exposure notifications for the EJ Broomfield Arena in Happy Valley-Goose Bay covering the period from December 19th, 2021 to December 28th, 2021. I am particularly seeking communications between officials pertaining the their decision-making behind the delays in issuing of exposure notices relating to the arena and any records indicating when Labrador-Grenfell Health and Health and Community Services became aware of the COVID- 19 outbreak linked to the Arena in Happy Valley-Goose Bay.2022-05-06Health and Community Services

[1] Information redacted due to personal information.
[2] Information redacted due to third party information.
[3] Information redacted due to reference to cabinet record.
[4] Information redacted due to legal concerns.
[5] Information redacted due to policy advice.
[6] Information redacted - falls outside scope of Act.
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