7 August 2025
Ian Kennedy
[FYI request #31550 email]
Tēnā koe Ian
Your request for official information, reference: HNZ00093138
Thank you for your email on 11 July 2025, asking Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora request
information under the Of icial Information Act 1982 (the OIA).
You asked for the following information in relation to Auckland City, Wellington, and Christchurch
Hospitals
1. “Please can you provide the number senior medical officer full time equivalent medical
oncologists (SMO FTE) currently employed at the following hospitals [separate number for
each hospital]
2. Please can you provide the number medical oncology registrars full time equivalent
(Registrar FTE) currently employed at the following hospitals [separate number for each
hospital]
3. Please can you provide the number of medical oncology first specialist assessment
appointments (FSA appointments) seen in calendar year 2024 at the following hospitals
[separate number for each hospital]
Response
For the sake of clarity, I wil address each question in turn.
Please note that this data is provisional and used for operational purposes. It has not been through
the full quality assurance process that we use before publishing data and therefore is subject to
change.
1. “Please can you provide the number senior medical officer full time equivalent medical
oncologists (SMO FTE) currently employed at the following hospitals [separate number for
each hospital]
2. Please can you provide the number medical oncology registrars full time equivalent
(Registrar FTE) currently employed at the following hospitals [separate number for each
hospital]
Table A: Senior Medical Officer (SMO) by ANZSCO Medical Oncologist - as of March 2025
Facility
Contracted Full time
equivalent (FTE)
Auckland City Hospital
41.79
Christchurch Hospital
14.41
Wellington Regional Hospital
17.82
Table B: Registrars working in Medicine - Medical Oncology Primary Area of Work - as of
March 2025
Facility
Contracted FTE
Auckland City Hospital
33
Christchurch Hospital
20
Wellington Regional Hospital
16
Table Notes for tables A and B above:
• 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 hours.
• Al FTE values are contracted FTE (where 1 FTE = 2086 hours per year).
• Senior Medical Of icer (SMO) are identified by those coded with the ANZSCO 'Medical
Oncologist (253314) '.
• Medical Oncology Registrars are those employees coded under the Common Chart of
Accounts code - 2035 'Registrar' and those with Primary Area of work code "Medicine -
Medical Oncology (0112)”.
• Since there is not a specific ANZSCO code for Medical Oncology Registrars the data has
been extracted based on employees coded under the Common Chart of Accounts - 2035
'Registrar' plus those with the primary area of work code "Medicine - Medical Oncology
(0112). This may include some Registrars working in Radiation Oncology.
• Please note, while reasonable care has been taken to prepare this material, we give no
guarantee that it is free from errors or defects. It is the best available data.
3. Please can you provide the number of medical oncology first specialist assessment
appointments (FSA appointments) seen in calendar year 2024 at the following hospitals
[separate number for each hospital]
Please note, while the following information has been sought through our Te Waipounamu team,
this data is provisional and subject to change, and it has not been through a full Quality Approval
process.
Number of medical oncology first specialist assessments (FSA) – 2024 Calendar Year
Hospital
Number of FSAs
Auckland City Hospital
2,688
Wellington Regional Hospital
765
Christchurch Hospital
1,321
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Nāku iti noa, nā
Danielle Coe
Manager (OIAs) – Government Services