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Rotator Cuff surgical requests

rotator cuff injury claims 01/01/2019- 01/08/2023 cause of injury and whether a request for surgery intervention has been requested / accepted or declined

to help understand the wide variance of how ACC accepts or declines surgical requests

explaining the pattern of how these claims are viewed


Response from
Accident Compensation Corporation

Dataset submitted

16 February 2024 info@data.govt.nz Kia ora Your Official Information Act request, reference: GOV-030250 Thank you for your email of 30 January 2024, asking for the following information under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act): Rotator cuff injury claims 01/01/2019- 01/08/2023 Cause of injury and whether a request for surgery intervention has been requested / accepted or declined The requested information is attached to this letter as the appendix When interpreting the data provided, please refer to the ‘Notes’ tab. As this information may be of interest to other members of the public ACC may publish a copy of this response on ACC’s website. All requester data, including your name and contact details, will be removed prior to release. The released response will be made available www.acc.co.nz/resources/#/category/12. If you have any questions about this response, please get in touch You can email me at GovernmentServices@acc.co.nz. Ngā mihi Christopher Johnston Manager Official Information Act Services Government Engagement Link to dataset: https://catalogue.data.govt.nz/dataset/gov-030250-rotator-cuff-injury-claims

2 Comments

  • ACC Government Engagement (Accident Compensation Corporation)

    Date: 4 February 2025

    Kia ora Anna

    Your Official Information Act request, reference: GOV-037675. Thank you for your comment on data.govt.nz regarding rotator cuff surgical requests, dated 22 January 2025 (received by ACC on 23 January) asking for the following information under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act)

    "Could you please email additional information regarding the gender and of rotator cuff claims please."

    Our response:
    The original data, provided on 16 February 2024, can be found here: https://catalogue.data.govt.nz/dataset/gov-030250-rotator-cuff-injury-claims/resource/c9937bcd-01cf-424b-b010-d73fd4d07ac8

    In response to your request, we have updated this data to 31 December 2024, and also included a breakdown for gender (tables 5 and 6). Table 1 has the number of claims with a rotator cuff injury lodged. You can find this here: https://catalogue.data.govt.nz/dataset/gov-037675-updated-data-for-rotator-cuff-injury-claims

    As this information may be of interest to other members of the public ACC may publish a copy of this response on ACC’s website. All requester data, including your name and contact details, will be removed prior to release. The released response will be made available www.acc.co.nz/resources/#/category/12

    If you have any questions about this response, please get in touch You can email me at GovernmentServices@acc.co.nz.

    Ngā mihi
    Christopher Johnston, Manager Official Information Act Services, Government Engagement

  • Anna Sloan

    Could you please email additional information regarding the gender and of rotator cuff claims please.

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