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s9(2)(a)
To:
s9(2)(a)
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s9(2)(a)
Subject:
FW: Waikato med school: s9(2)(a) as SRO [IN-CONFIDENCE:RELEASE EXTERNAL]
Date:
Monday, 29 May 2017 5:45:00 pm
Hi s9(2)(a)
Below are some bullet points for Mike James. Will you or Neasa forward it to him?
Thanks
s9(2)(a)
What is the proposal offering and what will it cost?
· The Waikato proposal submitted by the University of Waikato and Waikato DHB (the
‘Waikato parties’), is a four-year, graduate-entry medical school programme with
students able to enter from any prior degree programme providing they meet academic
and dispositional criteria.
· The rationale for a new medical school is to address the shortage of rural practitioners
(rural GPs and associated specialities) in the medical workforce by recruiting students
more likely to want to work in rural areas, and ensuring they have significant experience
in rural placements in their training.
· The focus will be on accepting students who come from rural NZ and who are keen to
pursue rural practice. It is envisaged that many of these students will be Māori, reflecting
the demographics of the Waikato region.
· The new school would be based in Hamilton, with clinical education and training centres
located throughout the central North Island. This will enable students to undertake a high
proportion of clinical placements in community settings outside the main centres.
· The Waikato proposal envisages enrolling up to 60 students a year from 2020.
· The Waikato parties are hoping to secure capital funding from the Crown to finance the
school with operating revenue coming from TEC funding. Over a 10-year period, capital
expenditure is estimated at a minimum of $58m and operating expenditure a minimum of
$142m.
Current process and next steps
· In April, Minister’s Joyce and Coleman requested further information from the ‘Waikato
parties’.
· This information included engagement with a wide range of government, regulatory and
health agencies to establish a common understanding of any health workforce problems
in NZ, clarification of potential , evidence to implementation pathway, greater detail
recruitment strategies and clinical placements.
· Since then there have been several meetings recently between the Waikato parties and
officials from the TEC, Health Workforce New Zealand and Treasury. The foci of these
meetings included NZ’s rural health workforce issues and the Waikato parties’ CAPEX and
OPEX requirements.
· The additional information in the form of a revised business case is due 31 May.
As mentioned last week, s9(2)(a) and I just met with s9(2)(a) (SRO for Waikato). He was happy
for TEC to keep inviting s9(2)(a)to the meetings going forward but did ask that he get a short set
of talking points around process so that he’s up-to-date whenever he meets proponents (eg s9(2)(a)
, Chair of the DHB). Would you mind sending him a short set of points about current
process and key next steps?
I asked him when he was next in the Waikato and he indicated that both s9(2)(a) and himself
would be there on 6 June – so particularly important for him to know if the business case has
been received and what we’re doing with it at that point.
Hope this works for you,
Cheers
s9(2)(a)
s9(2)(a)
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