Ministerial decision-making documents

Advice to the Minister of Health: January 2026

Advice sent to the Minister of Health in January 2026 is listed below, along with links to any documents that have been proactively released.

**Briefings, memos and aides mémoire to Hon Simeon Brown, Minister of Health**
**1 – 31 January 2026**
Date Sent	Reference	Title
12/01/2026	H2025076421	Withheld under s9(2)(f)(iv) of the Official Information Act
13/01/2026	H2025073919	Recognition of Service – Health Workforce
14/01/2026	H2025076931	Withheld under s9(2)(f)(iv) of the Official Information Act
21/01/2026	H2026077503	Withheld under s9(2)(f)(iv) of the Official Information Act
21/01/2026	H2025075774	Government response to the Petitions Committee report on the petition to make Motor Neurone Disease notifiable
21/01/2026	H2026077371	Withheld under s9(2)(f)(iv) of the Official Information Act
21/01/2026	H2025075781	Withheld under s9(2)(f)(iv) of the Official Information Act
22/01/2026	H2026077528	Launch of 12-month prescriptions at Unichem Pakuranga Pharmacy
22/01/2026	H2025074951	Withheld under s9(2)(h) of the Official Information Act
22/01/2026	H2026077416	All of government health targets – December 2025/26 reporting for endorsement
22/01/2026	H2025077110	Nurse Endoscopist training in New Zealand
26/01/2026	H2025076051	Meeting with United States Chargé d’affaires to New Zealand, David Gehrenbeck
26/01/2026	H2026077421	Aide Memoire for meeting of Social Investment Ministers group meeting concerning community commissioning
26/01/2026	H2025076505	Meeting with the Health Workforce Committee
27/01/2026	H2026077681	Visit of OECD country delegation and OECD digital health chapter
28/01/2026	H2025076207	Withheld under s9(2)(f)(iv) of the Official Information Act
28/01/2026	H2025077091	Meeting with Illumina
29/01/2026	H2026077835	Withheld under s9(2)(h) of the Official Information Act
29/01/2026	H2026077617	Withheld under s9(2)(f)(iv) of the Official Information Act
29/01/2026	H2025076265	System response to the harm caused by anti-seizure medicines
29/01/2026	H2025076691	Withheld under s9(2)(f)(iv) of the Official Information Act
29/01/2026	H2025076771	Enabling hub and spoke models of pharmacy
30/01/2026	H2025077234	Meeting with the New Zealand Physician Associate Society

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Briefings memos and aides mémoire to Hon Simeon Brown Minister of Health 1 - 31 January 2026

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Withheld information

Some parts of this information release would not be appropriate to release and, if requested, would be withheld under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act). Where this is the case, the relevant sections of the Act that would apply have been identified. Where information has been withheld, no public interest has been identified that would outweigh the reasons for withholding it.

Key to redaction codes

Section	Conclusive reasons to withhold official information
Section 6(a)	Prejudice New Zealand’s defence, security or international relations.
Section 6(b)	Prejudice any international government or organisations entrusting information to the government on a basis of confidence.
Section 6(c)	Prejudice the maintenance of the law (including the prevention, investigation, and detection of offences and the right to a fair trial).
Section 6(d)	Endanger the safety of any person.
Section 6(e)	Seriously damage the economy by prematurely disclosing decisions to change or continue with Government economic or financial policies.

Section	Other reasons to withhold official information
Section 9 (2)(a)	Protect the privacy of natural persons (including the privacy of a deceased person).
Section 9 (2)(b)	Protect information where the making available of the information would disclose a trade secret or would be likely unreasonably to prejudice the commercial position of the person who supplied or who is the subject of the information.
Section 9 (2)(ba)	Protect information which is subject to an obligation of confidence or which any person is compellable to provide, where the making available of the information would be likely to prejudice the supply of similar information or information from a similar source and it is in the public interest that such information should continue to be supplied, or it would be likely otherwise to damage the public interest.
Section 9 (2)(c)	Avoid prejudice to measures protecting the health or safety of members of the public.
Section 9 (2)(d)	Avoid prejudice to the substantial economic interests of New Zealand.
Section 9 (2)(e)	Avoid prejudice to measures that prevent or mitigate material loss to members of the public.
Section 9 (2)(f)	Maintain the constitutional conventions which protect confidentiality of communications by or with the Sovereign or her representative, collective and individual ministerial responsibility, the political neutrality of officials, and the confidentiality of advice tendered by Ministers and officials.
Section 9 (2)(g)	Maintain the effective conduct of public affairs through the free and frank expression of opinions by, between, or to, Ministers, officers and employees of a Department or members of an organisation, in the course of their duty, or through protection of any of them from improper pressure or harassment.
Section 9 (2)(h)	Maintain legal professional privilege.
Section 9 (2)(i)	Enable a Minister or Department to carry out commercial activities.
Section 9 (2)(j)	Enable a Minister or Department to carry out negotiations without prejudice or disadvantage.
Section 9 (2)(k)	Prevent the disclosure or use of information for improper gain.

Advice to the Minister of Health: January 2026

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