22 June 2022
Polly Adams
[FYI request #19656 email]
Ref: OIA-2021/22-1418
Dear Polly Adams
Official Information Act request relating to Health Transition Unit implementation plan
Thank you for your Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) request received on 13 June 2022.
You requested:
Further to my request to you on 26 May for health sector reform implementation plans
and work programme documents, and your subsequent response with links to publicly
available cabinet papers, can you please confirm that the Transition Unit holds no other
information about plans for implementation of the health sector reform, and no other
work programme material.
Is it correct that the only implementation and work programme documents you hold
about health sector transformation is in those cabinet papers?
If you do hold other information about implementation planning and work programme
for health sector reform, please provide a copy.
In addition to the link to the proactively released Cabinet paper setting out the plan for the
reforms which was provided in my previous response, there are some other key documents
which I have provided links to below.
The key briefings from the time period between May 2021 and October 2021 are here:
https://dpmc.govt.nz/publications/proactive-release-health-and-disability-system-reform-
briefings
Furthermore, the recently released October 2021 Cabinet paper (Health and Disability
System Reform – Update on Plans for Implementation and First Three Years of the
Reformed System) can be accessed here:
https://dpmc.govt.nz/publications/proactive-
release-health-and-disability-system-reform-update-plans-implementation-and
There are also very recent Cabinet papers which inform Day 1 readiness and final
checkpoints, these will soon be proactively released on the DPMC website on this page:
https://dpmc.govt.nz/publications
You have the right to ask the Ombudsman to investigate and review my decision under
section 28(3) of the Act.
Executive Wing, Parliament Buildings, Wellington, New Zealand 6011
4564930
64 4 817 9698 www.dpmc.govt.nz
We do not intend to publish this response on the Department of the Prime Minister and
Cabinet’s website.
Yours sincerely
Stephen McKernan
Director, Health and Disability Review Transition Unit
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