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Disclosure of information to a meeting around potential cost savings in Hospital and Specialist Services.

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From: Jeeves R Ponzi

Dear Health New Zealand,
On 13th of August 2024, the Health Commissioner Mr Lester Levy issued the following statement:

13 August 2024

Kia ora,
As Commissioner and Deputy Commissioners, we want to set the record straight on our frontline clinical staff.
Earlier today, a staff member presented some information to a meeting around potential cost savings in Hospital and Specialist Services.
For the avoidance of doubt, what was presented is in direct conflict with our thinking and should be dismissed.
As Commissioner and Deputy Commissioners, we are absolutely committed to a strong clinical frontline to drive better health outcomes for New Zealanders.
The clinical frontline is key to helping ensure faster and easier access to healthcare for people, wherever they live.
The clinical frontline will not be cut or reduced, and our plans are to strengthen it.
We do of course have a serious financial problem and as part of our reset at Health NZ we need to make sure we live within budget, but not at the expense of the clinical frontline.
These staff play a critical and valued role in lifting productivity to better respond to acute care demand and deliver more planned care. We know that’s what New Zealanders expect and need us to do.
Ngā mihi,
Commissioner Lester Levy and Deputy Commissioners Ken Whelan and Roger Jarrold.

Please provide, as a matter of urgency (due to the unprecedented speed of the current 'Health Reset'):
a) The information referred to which the staff member disclosed, and the Commissioner referred to, in full.
b) all correspondence (including Text messages, TEAMS messages or meetings, Emails and /or any other means) between (either received or sent) the Commissioner and/or his Deputies (or their Officers), or Health NZ Chief Executive or her Office, in any direction, which refer in any way to this disclosed information, for the period covering from Midnight Monday 12th August, and Midnight Wednesday 14th August.

I trust this request satisfies any condition under the ACT regarding Particularity or Specificity, and given the very narrow timeframes expressed, will not involve a degree of compilation burdensome to Health NZ.

Yours faithfully,

Jeeves R Ponzi
I am a resident of New Zealand.

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