Statement attributable to Margie Apa, Chief executive Health New | Te Whatu Ora
As I signalled last week, today we released consultation documents to potentially impacted staff in the Planning, Funding and Outcomes (PFO) business unit and Procurement teams.
This followed conversations with staff and unions, and supports our commitment to approach change collaboratively and transparently.
I acknowledge the significant impact these changes have on the lives of our people, as we reset our organisation to get back to budget and move resources and decision making closer to local communities.
A key focus of these changes is to consolidate national-level enabling and support functions, reduce duplication and build in more flexibility for how we provide services and insights to regions. A substantial number of proposed impacted positions are vacant.
In PFO there are three separate consultations. Some of the potentially impacted positions from earlier consultations would be transferred into PFO as part of this process.
It is important to remember consultation documents are proposals. We are asking for feedback from staff and unions, which will be carefully considered before final decisions are made.
569 staff employed under individual employment agreements or covered by specific PSA collective agreements have accepted an offer of voluntary redundancy
To provide clarity on the proposals released in December, this table gives an overview: