The Ministry of Health has apologised to Stuff for refusing its immunisation data requests, after the ombudsman found it “acted unreasonably”. Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier told the ministry to apologise and improve its processes for handling Official Information Act (OIA) requests, after finding it failed to fulfil its legal duty. Stuff A 2017 email from data analyst Gerald Sutton made it clear the ministry knew exactly what Stuff was asking for. Boshier recommended the ministry apologise and improve its processes for handling OIA requests. Health ministry deputy director-general of population health and prevention, Deborah Woodley, apologised to Stuff and accepted that “more should have been done to meet these requests”.

Source: Stuff March 28, 2021 20:32 UTC