Publication date:
20 November 2025
These memoranda were provided by the Health Workforce Committee (formerly known as the Health Workforce and System Efficiencies Committee) to provide advice to the Minister of Health on a range of health system issues.
Titles of Memoranda:
- Feedback Health New Zealand's draft Health Workforce Plan 2024-27
- Advice on the duration of routine Medication Prescriptions
- Opportunities to support General Practice
- Advice on the physician associate profession
- Advice on GPEP training
- Opportunities for the general practitioner workforce through a primary care pathway
- Planned care surgical waiting lists
- Opportunities for AI and data and digital
- Options for improved planned care delivery and the private sector
- Options to reform the Specialist College approach to Vocational Training
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 redaction codes:
- S 9(2)(a) to protect the privacy of natural persons.
- S 9(2)(g)(i) to maintain the effective conduct of public affairs through the free and frank expression of opinions by or between or to Ministers and officers and employees of any public service agency.
- S 6(a) as its release would likely prejudice the international relations of the Government of New Zealand.
- S 9(2)(b)(ii) where its release would likely unreasonably prejudice the commercial position of the person who supplied the information.
- S 9(2)(c) to avoid prejudice to measures to protect the health or safety of the public.
- S 9(2)(h) to maintain legal professional privilege.
- S 9(2)(j) to enable a Minister or any public service agency to carry on negotiations without prejudice or disadvantage (including commercial and industrial negotiations).
- S 9(2)(f)(iv) to maintain the constitutional conventions that protect the confidentiality of advice tendered by Ministers and officials.
