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Request NumberRequest SummaryDate PostedDepartment
HCS/46/2024 How many individuals are registered for the NL Prescription Drug Program "Access Plan"?2024-02-26Health and Community Services
HCS/46/2023 Road Ambulance Policies & Procedures Manual.2023-04-28Health and Community Services
HCS/46/2021 I would like a copy of the "Decision Note - Eastern Health Additional Ambulance Resources Request" from December 2020 as well as any correspondence with Eastern Health on the matter.2021-11-02Health and Community Services
HCS/46/2016 We hereby request a copy of any proposals, solicited or unsolicited, submitted to government related to aircraft charter services, including air ambulance, passenger transport, or firefighting' and 'We hereby request a list of all proposals, solicited or unsolicited, submitted to government related to aircraft charter services, including air ambulance, passenger transport, or firefighting, with the names of proposer, scope of proposal and date of submittal.2016-05-11Health and Community Services
HCS/46/2015 811 Campaign Costs.2015-08-03Health and Community Services
HCS/46/2014 Information relating to prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing in Newfoundland and Labrador for the last five (5) years.2014-11-12Health and Community Services
HCS/45/2024 It's been 2 years since the provincial sugar tax has come into effect. How much tax has been collected? What? if any ,healthy programs have been funded with said monies? How much healthier has it made our people? How much has it decreased hospital visits?2024-03-15Health and Community Services
HCS/45/2023 Could you please provide the private Ambulance contract pertaining to Brought's Ambulance Service LTD.2023-04-21Health and Community Services
HCS/45/2017 A list of all briefing material provided to the minister during March 2017.2017-05-09Health and Community Services
HCS/44/2021 All directives, emails and briefing notes to and from the Department of Health and Eastern Health in February 2021 regarding COVID-19 and hospitals. Please exclude media reports.2021-04-19Health and Community Services
HCS/44/2016 Please provide information on the number of outstanding accounts within your department (including any which have been forwarded to Tax Administration for collections and those which have not yet been forwarded) which are the result of over payments by the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador. Please provide the outstanding balance on each account and through which program the over payment occurred. The time frame would be over payments which have occurred between December 1, 2015 and April 4, 2016.2016-04-12Health and Community Services
HCS/44/2015 At 12:14am ?? 7 Jul 2015, Minister Stephen Kent indicated on Twitter the following with respect to the privatizations of long term care and the recent RFP announcing the government's plan to move forward with this privatizations: "Been on the radar since October. And lots of evidence to support the plan." Please provide the information that the Minister of Health was referencing in this Tweet."2015-08-10Health and Community Services
HCS/44/2014 Correspondence from the Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association (CLHIA), from March 24, 2014 to present relating to the paper published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, by Dr. Michael Law and colleagues titled, "The increasing inefficiency of private health insurance in Canada."2014-11-12Health 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/43/2017 I would like access to all briefing notes provided to the minister or deputy minister relating to the health funding agreement with the federal government reached at the end of 2016.2017-05-01Health and Community Services
HCS/43/2015 All records between January 1 2007 - June 30, 2015 exchanged between the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador and: the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB) relating to the drug Solris (eculizumab) for its use in treating Paraoxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH) and/or atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (aHUS); and Douglas Clark, Executive Director of PMPRB.2015-08-11Health and Community Services
HCS/43/2014 A copy of the training requirements for an ABA therapist to provide treatment to children diagnosed with ASD A copy of the training manual as well as associated policies and procedures regarding sensory rooms in schools and the Occupational Therapists involvement in the formulation of a plan for the children requiring the use of these rooms A status update on the 11 recommendations that were made in May 2005 from the "Provincial Autism Pilot Project: An Early Intervention study from 1999-2005 - Program Evaluation." A copy of any and all program evaluations that have been done on Early Intervention since 2005.2014-11-18Health and Community Services
HCS/42/2023 A list of expenses/ costs/ moneys claimed/ reimbursed related to the January 2023 physician recruitment trip to Ireland, including expenses claimed for reimbursement by Minister Osbourne, Minister of Health, and the 10 others who accompanied him on a 6-day mission to 4 Irish cities.2023-04-13Health and Community Services
HCS/42/2021 Various briefing notes from December, 2020.2021-04-14Health and Community Services
HCS/42/2018 In Budget 2018 there is 45 million allocated for repairs, renovations and equipment upgrades at health care facilities. I am requesting the details on how this money is being allocated for equipment upgrades. i.e. specifically what is budgeted for equipment, how much, where, description of equipment contained $45 million for repairs and renovations and equipment upgrades at health-care facilities across the province.2018-04-12Health and Community Services
HCS/42/2016 In reference to the Air Ambulance tender/RFP dated September 1, 2010 to August 31, 2012 this tender was repeatedly extended from 2012 into 2015. Please provide documentation on all extensions of the contract that were approved by the Deputy Minister and reported to the Treasury Board as per the Public Tendering Act, RSNL 1990 Chapter P-45 - Public Tendering Act Section (2) A government funded body may authorize change orders within the requirements of a contract or authorize extensions of the contract, where the value exceeds the limit under subsection (1), with the prior approval, (a) in the case of a department of the government, of the deputy minister and those changes shall be reported to the Treasury Board annually.2016-05-02Health and Community Services
HCS/42/2014 A status update on each of the recommendations made by the Child and Youth Advocate to your department since 2012.2014-12-16Health and Community Services
HCS/413/2021 All correspondence, emails, briefing notes and directives related to Carbonear Hospital for the past 8 months. Please include any letters from physicians, as well as correspondence with Eastern Health.2022-12-15Health 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
HCS/411/2021 Request for Omicron statistics.2022-06-20Health and Community Services
HCS/41/2024 A copy of the results (and summaries) for all healthcare patient satisfaction surveys completed by NL Dept. of Health between January 1, 2020 and today.2024-02-26Health and Community Services
HCS/41/2017 Records indicating the number of health cards (i.e. identification card for provincial health insurance) reported lost or stolen during 2016.2017-04-17Health and Community Services
HCS/41/2016 Please provide the Moore's Ambulance Service contract.2016-04-15Health and Community Services
HCS/41/2015 Information relating to the number of days the provincial air ambulances were unable to fly due to maintenance/mechanical/staff issues. 2015-07-20Health and Community Services
HCS/41/2014 An update as well as any briefing notes, information notes, etc. on the civil lawsuit against tobacco manufacturers to recover costs dating back to the 1950s.2014-11-18Health and Community Services
HCS/407/2021 In accordance with the Public Health Protection and Promotion Act (the Act), Chapter P-37.3 Section 12(2)(a), provide copies of audits and/or risk assessments in relation to health hazards that an environmental health officer or officers have conducted in accordance with the Act, under the context of the current health emergency. 2023-05-02Health and Community Services
HCS/406/2021 In accordance with the Public Health Protection and Promotion Act, Chapter P-37.3, Section 9(3)(j), provide the most recent annual report respecting the reportable events, outbreaks, public health emergencies and number and results of inspections conducted under the Act and regulations during that year.2022-11-08Health 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/400/2021 Please provide the total number of covid cases diagnosed, covid related deaths and covid related hospitalizations in Newfoundland and Labrador for the period August 1, 2021 to December 15, 2021. Provide the breakdown by category of fully vaccinated, partly vaccinated and unvaccinated.2021-12-29Health and Community Services
HCS/40/2023 Records regarding replacing Smith's Ambulance Services as the private ambulance operator for the Whitbourne area. Request includes emails (director level and above), briefing or decision notes, letters sent or received regarding breach of contract/ambulance service agreement, communications materials (key messages, communications plans). Timeframe: January 1, 2023 to present.2023-07-04Health 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/40/2018[1] Interim agreement in principle. Oct 3 , 2017 Between health and community services (gnl) and Moore's ambulance (2012) limited and eastern regional health authority. Together the "parties".2018-04-17Health and Community Services
HCS/40/2017[1] All receipts, reimbursement records related to out of province trips by the minister in 2016.2017-04-12Health and Community Services
HCS/40/2016 Please provide the Fewer's Ambulance Service contract.2016-04-22Health and Community Services
HCS/40/2014 Any briefing materials on the topic of "Red Alerts" (ambulance availability on the Northeast Avalon) and correspondence of dept. and Eastern Health on the topic. Date range Aug.1, 2013 to present.2014-12-02Health and Community Services
HCS/4/2021 For the two most recent twelve-month periods that are available to the Ministry, the number of procedures performed for the following physician fee codes: 54322, 54324, 94904, 94906, 94908, 58000, 58240, 58350.2021-02-25Health and Community Services
HCS/4/2020 Please provide the number of trips per month and associated costs per month broken down by cost type (i.e. airfare, car rental, taxi, hotel, etc.) reimbursed from the Medical Transportation Assistance Program for individuals who reside in communities west of Corner Brook ( (i.e. Stephenville, Port Aux Basques, etc.) and who were required to travel to St. John's for medical services via Deer Lake Airport for the period of April 1, 2018 to December 2019.2020-02-07Health and Community Services
HCS/4/2019 Information notes, decision notes, analyses, and/or other background or briefing materials - in any and all formats, including paper and electronic - related to moving the Medical Transportation Assistance for Income Support Clients program to the Department of Health and Community services in 2018, and the operation of the program after the move.2019-02-13Health and Community Services
HCS/4/2017 I am requesting a copy of all annual, air quality inspections/reports completed from 2008 to 2016 for each of the five schools within the Crescent Collegiate School system: Whitbourne Elementary, Holy Family Elementary, Woodland Elementary, Crescent Collegiate and Acreman Elementary. As well as any emails, briefing notes sent to the NLESD from the Dept. of Health & Community Services regarding air quality at these schools over the same time frame of 2008 to 2016.2017-01-20Health and Community Services
HCS/4/2016 Records related to any assessment of Iris Kirby House's operations.2016-05-25Health and Community Services
HCS/4/2014 StanTec report completed that pertains to the number of ultrasound machines for the new Corner Brook Hospital.2014-03-27Health and Community Services
HCS/4/2013[1] All documents related to requests by CBC News and/or CBC Television and/or the fifth estate: for permission to obtain hospital-specific date from the Canadian Institute for Health information (CIHI); to hospitals to complete CBC's hospital survey as part of the project entitled "Vital Signs: Inside Canada's Hospitals; All documents related to the plans by CBC News and/or CBC Television and/or the fifth estate to produce an Internet-based resource that rates hospitals.???2013-06-05Health and Community Services
HCS/399/2021 I wish to obtain any and all records within the timeline of January 1st, 2018 to Present (December 15th, 2021) in relation to the "Bonavista Wellness Centre" including correspondence between the Minister and/or his department regarding this topic, and any correspondence between the Minister/Department and Eastern Health or the Town of Bonavista (and any other relevant stakeholders), along with any RFP's that were issued for this project.2022-06-07Health and Community Services
HCS/398/2021 Statistics on the number of medical staff in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, broken down by race and authority within the healthcare system. I am specifically looking for demographic data on medical workers that provides their job title, level of authority (i.e. team members, team leaders, managers, etc.) and race, organized in a spreadsheet.2022-02-14Health and Community Services
HCS/394/2021 What covid 19 vaccine is being administered to children in Newfoundland ages 5-11 and 11-18 and how many doses have been administered to date.2021-12-29Health and Community Services

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