Healthcare IT News December 1, 2024
This could impact ongoing health system IT modernisation efforts, says New Zealand’s largest trade union, Public Service Association.
Te Whatu Ora (Health New Zealand) is proposing to let go of about a third of positions in data and digital.
It contemplates cutting approximately 653 full-time-equivalent roles – excluding vacancies – from Digital Services, accounting for 33.7% of their current number.
That represents the largest job reduction among services; the government also proposes to lay off 49 jobs at Pacific Health, 55 at the National Public Health Service, and around 15 positions at Hauora Māori Services.
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Te Whatu Ora has been cost-cutting since the beginning of the fiscal year. It first recalled up to NZ$330 million in...
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