
24 April 2025
Hen Ry
[FYI request #30358 email]
Tēnā koe Hen
Your request for official information, reference: HNZ00081665
Thank you for your email on 10 March 2025, asking Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora (Health
NZ) for the following information under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act):
Would you please provide me with number of FTE of general surgical registrar employed at
each DHB for the each of the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.
Response
Please find the information requested in the below table
.
General Surgical Registrars by District as of 30 September 2019-2024
District
Sep-19
Sep-20
Sep-21
Sep-22
Sep-23
Sep-24
Auckland
18.0
21.0
21.0
20.1
20.0
20.0
Bay of Plenty
10.0
14.0
15.0
16.0
14.0
16.0
Canterbury
21.0
21.0
22.0
23.0
22.5
24.0
Capital &
18.0
20.0
20.0
29.0
16.6
25.0
Coast
Counties
19.0
21.5
22.5
23.5
18.0
22.0
Manukau
Hawke's Bay
11.0
-
-
-
13.8
14.0
Hutt Valley
7.0
8.0
8.8
6.0
1.0
-
Lakes
5.0
5.0
4.0
4.0
5.8
3.8
MidCentral
10.0
10.0
9.0
8.0
10.0
10.0
Nelson
13.0
13.0
15.0
29.0
28.0
26.0
Marlborough
Northland
10.0
7.0
8.0
7.8
8.0
12.0
South
-
-
-
2.0
2.0
2.0
Canterbury
Southern
60.5
64.0
68.0
68.0
61.0
80.7
Tairawhiti
-
-
-
-
-
-
Taranaki
6.0
7.0
8.0
9.0
8.0
9.0
Waikato
20.0
24.0
25.0
26.0
28.0
21.0
Wairarapa
1.0
-
-
-
-
-
Waitemata
17.1
19.0
20.0
21.0
20.5
19.0
West Coast
-
-
-
-
-
-
Whanganui
-
-
-
-
-
-
Please note the following:
• Health NZ District data was extracted from the HWIP database on 26/03/2025 and reflects
people employed by the Health NZ Districts as at the stated period.
• HWIP collects data from the Health NZ Districts as at the end of each quarter, and data as
at 30 September 2024 is the most current data available.
• Data includes permanent and fixed term employees and excludes contractors, employees
on long term leave, parental leave, leave without pay and those with zero contracted hour.
• All FTE values are contracted FTE (where 1 FTE = 2086 hours per year).
• Registrars working in General Surgical are employees coded with the ANZSCO 'Resident
Medical Officer' (253112), a Common chart of Accounts code 'Registrars', and a Primary
Area of Work 'Surgery - General Surgery'.
• The search criteria for Registrars working in General Surgical may not have been able to
identify this role in some of the Districts.
• Where there are '-' in the below Table means no data has been reported to HWIP from the
District.
• Resident Medical Officer (RMOs) numbers fluctuate as their roles are typically managed
differently, they rotate within and between Districts during their training.
• Wairarapa and Hutt Valley are moving away from directly employing RMOs and will in
future use RMOs that are employed by Capital and Coast.
• Please also note the data provided is provisional which has not undergone the validation
process that we use for published data.
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Nāku iti noa, nā
Fiona McCarthy
Interim Chief Human Resources Officer
TeWhatuOra.govt.nz
Health NZ, PO Box 793,
Wellington 6140, New Zealand