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Request NumberRequest SummaryDate PostedDepartment
HCS/93/2022 A list of briefing materials prepared for the deputy minister or the minister for the month of February 2022.2022-05-17Health and Community Services
HCS/132/2021 Information regarding the Medical Transportation Assistance Program.2021-05-31Health and Community Services
HCS/250/2022 Any and all records related to the replacement of St. Clare's Hospital. 2015-Present.2022-12-02Health and Community Services
HCS/322/2021 A copy of the briefing book used by the Minister in the House of Assembly the week of Oct 25-28.2022-04-26Health and Community Services
HCS/285/2021 Notes, briefings, and emails that mention Sequence Bio in the last six months.2022-01-26Health and Community Services
HCS/282/2021 All communications, both paper and electronic, between Blaine Edwards and Michael Kirby. Time frame September 1, 2016 to April 30, 2020.2022-01-10Health and Community Services
HCS/144/2020 Any and all records concerning missing and/or stolen PPE and/or Team Broken Earth from February 1, 2020 to today.2020-11-18Health and Community Services
HCS/119/2022 A copy of the agreement between the Department of Health and Community Services and Fonemed for the provision of Healthline (811) Services awarded following RFP 120014227. 2022-04-26Health and Community Services
HCS/302/2021 Notes, briefings, and emails that mention Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Health Information in the last six months. Please provide this information for free because it is in the public's interest. 2022-04-26Health and Community Services
HCS/109/2022 A copy of the briefing book used by or prepared for the Minister for the HOA the week of March 15-17, 2022.2022-04-18Health and Community Services
HCS/56/2022 Please provide any and all documentation on the following: All Cause Mortality statistics for the province of Newfoundland or any part where data has been recorded for the calendar years 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and into 2022 where possible. 2022-04-11Health and Community Services
HCS/353/2021 The total number of provincial ambulance calls in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and most importantly, to date in 2021. Also broken down by month for each year/year-to-date. 2022-02-11Health and Community Services
HCS/279/2021 Of the people that died of covid, listed from earliest to latest, how many were fully vaccinated, how many died within 2 weeks after the 1st or 2nd vaccination jab?2021-11-29Health and Community Services
HCS/307/2021 The number of wait-listed patients who died awaiting surgeries or other potentially lifesaving medical procedures, and whose appointments were delayed due to the covid pandemic. Please provide breakdown of numbers by health region, type of procedure, length of delays, and cause of death. Date range: March 15, 2020 to Oct. 20, 2022.2021-11-16Health and Community Services
HCS/235/2021 For the past 5 fiscal years. 1. Average # of Acute Care beds occupied. 2. Average # of Acute Care beds available. 3. Average # of ICU beds occupied. 4. Average # of ICU beds available.2021-08-31Health and Community Services
HCS/383/2021 Has HCS or any government body communicated to doctors in Newfoundland not to prescribe HCQ or ivermectin? Please provide relevant communications to doctors, college of physicians or any other body that may communicate this info to doctors.2022-04-26Health and Community Services
HCS/303/2021 I am requesting information regarding Covid-19 related hospitalizations and deaths in Newfoundland and Labrador for the year 2021. 2022-01-17Health and Community Services
HCS/42/2021 Various briefing notes from December, 2020.2021-04-14Health 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/28/2021 Provide documents explaining/outlining the means and methods (procedures and protocols) to contact trace Newfoundland and Labrador's citizens as it applies to positive covid cases. With contact tracing ongoing for some time now, provide the data showing the breakdown in percentage of the means of contact tracing, i.e. survey, phone calls, voluntary admission, GPS tracking by smart phone, Covid app, interviews, etc.2021-11-02Health and Community Services
HCS/247/2021 1. Please provide any document outlining a risk benefit or a cost benefit analysis of the government's proposal for a sugar sweetened beverage tax, realized between September 1st 2020 and September 1st 2021 inclusively. 2. Please provide a copy of all external communications, including but not limited to emails and letters, regarding the government's proposal for a sugar sweetened beverage tax received between May 1st 2021 and August 31st 2021 inclusively. 2021-09-27Health 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.2021-09-27Health and Community Services
HCS/236/2021 Looking for copies of all records of complaints or inquiries regarding Smiths Ambulance Service and/or complaints or inquires regarding the arrival time to the location of the emergency by Smiths ambulance service to communities from Whitbourne to Green's Harbour. Any emails to the Minister of Health, the MHA's for the area, the Premier, or the Public Utilities Board.2021-09-23Health and Community Services
HCS/323/2021 The vaccination status of all the MPs in the province - whether they are fully vaccinated, partially vaccinated or not vaccinated at all.2021-12-29Health and Community Services
HCS/284/2021 Requesting information about covid 19 vaccine approval status from health Canada or this Provincial agency with such power (approval of vaccine use) for all currently available (in Canada) covid 19 vaccines. Does the HCS (Health and Community Services) agency have any USA FDA approved Comirnity (covid 19 vaccine) (Phizer covid 19 vaccine but with liability protection for users) vaccines available for administering to the public? Are any on the way if none are yet available for use? What is the approximate distribution of covid 19 vaccine by brand of vaccine available in Newfoundland and Labrador?2021-12-17Health and Community Services
HCS/257/2021 Relevant data, studies with cited statistics, epidemiology models, risk profile analysis, as well as communications and correspondence relating to the decision to mandate vaccine passports in the public sphere to individuals 19 years of age and younger. Please also provide modeling to show the benefits of vaccines versus the risks specific to the aforementioned demographic that has resulted in the potential inclusion of this group within the passport mandate.2021-10-28Health and Community Services
HCS/15/2021 All records and communications in the possession, custody or control of the Public Health NL, Health department, Health and Community Services, describing the isolation of a SARS-COV-2 virus, directly from a sample taken from a diseased patient, where the patient sample was not first combined with any other source of genetic material (i.e monkey kidney cells, aka VERO cells, liver cancer cells). 2021-02-19Health and Community Services
HCS/141/2020 Any and all information that was used to justify the decision to force the people of NL to wear face masks.2020-10-13Health and Community Services
HCS/317/2021 I am requesting a copy of the binder used by the Minister in the House of Assembly the week of Oct 18-22nd. If it changed daily, please provide each day.2022-01-28Health and Community Services
HCS/345/2021 Information regarding adverse events following immunization in NL.2022-01-26Health and Community Services
HCS/298/2021 The actual detailed Request for Quotes/RFP for a consultants report on transitioning NLCHI into core government and full text of all responses (including the winning response).2022-01-26Health and Community Services
HCS/265/2021 Information regarding adverse reactions to Covid-19 vaccines. 2021-11-09Health and Community Services
HCS/253/2021 Please provide any and all records including briefing documents, meeting notes, correspondence, emails, texts, etc relating to the impact of the decision by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of NL to change licensing rules for physicians. The time period is January 1 2016 to September 12, 2021.2021-11-23Health and Community Services
HCS/135/2020 All records pertaining to the planning of the dialysis unit at mount pearl square. 2020-10-13Health and Community Services
HCS/131/2020[1] What was the extenuating circumstances that allowed [individual] to visit NL?2020-09-17Health and Community Services
HCS/268/2021 Please provide any and all records, correspondence, emails, briefing notes etc. relating to a request for an ambulance base for Bay Bulls region.2021-11-01Health and Community Services
HCS/233/2021 Most recent COVID vaccination rates (numbers of persons vaccinated, and as percentage of population) from January 1, 2021 to August 10, 2021 in: 1) all of Labrador; 2) each of the communities of Nain, Hopedale, Makkovik, Postville and Rigolet.2021-08-31Health and Community Services
HCS/218/2022 Any and all records to/from the College of Physicians and Surgeons for the past year.2022-10-11Health and Community Services
HCS/281/2021 All records regarding ambulance services in the District of Ferryland, specifically records pertaining to ambulance allocation in the area between the Minister's Office/Department of Health and Eastern Health/Contractor (Ferryland Emergency Services & Ryan's Ambulance Service).2022-04-14Health and Community Services
HCS/350/2021[1] All communications and records related to the data breach, cyberattack, ransomware, IT outages or service outages between 12:01 a.m. Oct. 30 and 11:59pm Nov. 1.2022-04-11Health and Community Services
HCS/332/2021 A complete break down of cause of death, i.e. natural, covid 19, heart disease, cancer, etc. for all deaths 2010- current year.2021-12-29Health 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/387/2021 Please provide information regarding all cause mortality for 2010-2021.2021-12-29Health and Community Services
HCS/306/2021 Please provide the complete breakdown of Confirmed COVID cases and deaths in Newfoundland (including the boats that sat off-shore as they were included in our provincial covid count) between March 1, 2021-October 21, 2021. Please provide the followibg breakdown: # positive cases and deaths between March 1, 2021 - October 21, 2021. # Fully vaccinated (2 shots/14 days after 2nd shot) # Partially vaccinated # unvaccinated.2021-12-29Health and Community Services
HCS/123/2021 Any updates and reviews to the operational plan for the audit services division that does MCP fee-for-service audit work. Date range of request is calendar years 2019, 2020 and 2021.2021-05-31Health and Community Services
HCS/24/2021 Please confirm recovery rate (defined as no longer having the infection with no long term adverse effect to a person that has been confirmed infected by positive PCR test result) of infection from SARS CoV-2 virus. Additionally, provide criteria that NL or Canadian governments use to define a SARS CoV-2 infection (or positive PCR test result) outbreak a pandemic.2021-04-19Health and Community Services
HCS/213/2020 Records relating to COVID-19.2021-01-26Health and Community Services
HCS/258/2021 All peer reviewed scientific data, including research publications with cited supporting references, epidemiology modelling, risk / benefit analysis, and internal communications with local experts outlining guidance that resulted in the decision to implement masking indoors, particularly to school aged children.2021-10-25Health and Community Services
HCS/208-209/2020 October 2020 Decision/Direction Note titled COVID-19 Special Measures Orders Non-compliance Public Reporting and Enforcement. November 2020 Information Note titled Bed Counts in Health Facilities.2021-01-12Health and Community Services
HCS/98/2020 Any and all information and communication/results/findings regarding Federal Mobile Lab testing the residents of Deer Lake in 2019.2020-07-08Health and Community Services

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[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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