30 April 2024
Simon Tegg
Via email: fyirequest26280[email address]
Tēnā koe Simon
Request for information: Hormonal treatment data
Thank you for your request dated 1 April 2024 under the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA).
You requested:
I request incidence and prevalence data on the number of individuals <18 years old
dispensed hormone treatments.
For NHI sexes: "female" "male" "other" and "unknown":
1. Incidence (number of individuals to whom drug was newly dispensed in a calendar
year who were not dispensed to in the previous calendar year):
Testosterone
Oestrogen
Antiandrogens (Spironolactone, Cyproterone) By sex, calendar year 2006
through 2023, and specific age at dispensing 0, 1, 2,...15, 16, 17.
2. Prevalence (number individuals dispensed to in the calendar year) as above.
In the excel spreadsheet attached you wil find:
Total number of unique patients (prevalence) from calendar years 2006 to 2023, by
gender (female, male, other, unknown) for cyproterone, spironolactone, oestrogen,
and testosterone
Number of unique patients (prevalence) each calendar year from 2006 to 2023, by
gender (female, male, other, unknown) for cyproterone, spironolactone, oestrogen,
and testosterone
Number of individuals to whom drug was newly dispensed in a calendar year who
were not dispensed to in the previous calendar year (incidence) by gender (female,
male, other, unknown), calendar year and age
Number individuals dispensed to in the calendar year (prevalence) by gender
(female, male, other, unknown), calendar year and age
The information provided is only dispensing data, Pharmac does not hold data on the health
conditions a particular medicine/s were prescribed for.
Provided is the NHI sexes: female, male, other and unknown. Please note that the NHI does
not capture sex (‘assigned at birth’ or ‘natal sex’), instead it only captures gender (‘gender
identity’, relates to an individual’s experience of their own gender). This can be updated by
an individual by asking their regular health professional to update the National Health Index
(“NHI”) with this information.
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If you would like more information on this please contact Te Whatu Ora as they are
responsible for
NHI records.
Where 6 or fewer people are counted, we have changed the number to "≤6" as we believe
this is necessary to protect the privacy of these people (section 9(2)(a) of the OIA).
In making our decision, we have considered the public interest considerations in section 9(1) of
the Act. No public interest has been identified that would be sufficient to override the reasons
for withholding that information.
We trust that this information answers your queries. Please note, you have the right to make
a complaint to the Ombudsman about our response to your OIA, under section 28(3) of the
OIA. Details of
how to make a complaint are on the Ombudsman’s website.
To make information more freely available, we publish selected OIA responses (excluding
personal details) on our website. Please get in touch with us if you have any questions about
this.
Nāku noa, nā
Oliver Whitehead
Team Leader, Government Services
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