16 December 2025
Sam Malik
[FYI request #32911 email]
Tēnā koe Sam,
Your request for official information, reference: HNZ00104047
Thank you for your email on 19 November 2025, asking Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora
(Health NZ) for the following under the Official Information Act 1982 (the OIA):
‘Please provide full organisational chart with names only included for Tier 1-3 and their (T1-
3) salary under the OIA.
PLEASE INCLUDE HOSPITALS BUT AS A SEPERATE APPENDIX.
Please include and mention which roles are contracts and details about it i.e. length of
contract, total cost, agency costs.
Reason why these roles being covered by contracts are not being fil ed by fixed term or
permanent employees.
Updated information on flexible working in HNZ.
How many new hires and resigns in 2025 up to the month of October per directorate.’
Response
For the sake of clarity, I wil address each part of your request in turn.
‘Please provide full organisational chart with names only included for Tier 1-3 and their (T1-
3) salary under the OIA.
PLEASE INCLUDE HOSPITALS BUT AS A SEPERATE APPENDIX.
We do not hold a consolidated organisational chart that includes Tier 1-3 positions with their salary
information. The OIA requires agencies to make available information that is already held. It does
not require an agency to create new information, compile information in a new format, or produce
documents that do not currently exist.
Similarly, your request for a spreadsheet for hospital staff and their salaries seeks information that
is not held in a consolidated format. Producing such a document would require us to create new
information by combining data from multiple systems. Accordingly, this portion of your request is
refused under section 18(e) of the OIA as the information does not exist in the format requested.
However, we are able to provide you with the most recent organisational chart, which has been
attached as
Appendix One. This chart reflects the configuration as at 24 June 2025 and includes
national and regional leadership showing Tier 1 to Tier 3 positions; noting that some position titles
may have changed since it was produced. Due to the ongoing organisational reset underway at
Health NZ, updates to organisational charts are not being undertaken regularly.
Information regarding Tier 1 remuneration is publicly available and can be found on the Public
Service Commission website here:
https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/system/leaders/appointing-leaders/leader-pay/chief-executive-
remuneration
Individual salary information for the rest of the positions is withheld under section 9(2)(a) of the OIA,
to protect the privacy of natural persons.
Please include and mention which roles are contracts and details about it i.e. length of
contract, total cost, agency costs.
Please refer to the above response. For information purposes, the FYTD (Financial Year to data)
spend on Opex (Operational Expenses) contractors is approximately $140m as at 11 December
2025.
Reason why these roles being covered by contracts are not being fil ed by fixed term or
permanent employees.
Please refer to the above response. For information purposes, spend on Opex contractors is 3.5%
of total spend on employed staff and the spend on Opex consultants is 0.6% of total spend on
employed staff (both as at October 2025, year to date). Relatively, for the organisation's size, HNZ
spends a very small amount on contingent staff, mainly driven by the need to cover rosters, vacant
positions and for short term projects. We also use consultants in limited circumstances such as
where we require specialist expertise or independent advice for areas where the costs of having
such highly specialist skil s in-house are not justified on a permanent staffing basis.
Updated information on flexible working in HNZ.
Health NZ does not have a national policy on flexible working as it has not yet been finalised and
does not yet exist, therefore this part of your request is refused under section 18(e). However, we
can confirm there is a page on our internal intranet page on flexible working which is consistent with
our statutory and contractual obligations.
How many new hires and resigns in 2025 up to the month of October per directorate.
We do not hold information on new hires and resigns in the format requested. Producing this would
require us to create a new dataset by extracting and reorganising information from several systems,
and the OIA does not require agencies to create new information. Therefore, this part of your request
is refused under section 18(f) of the OIA, as it is not held in a readily retrievable form and providing
it would require substantial manual collation.
How to get in touch
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If you are not happy with this response, you have the right to make a complaint to the
Ombudsman. Information about how to do this is available at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or
by phoning 0800 802 602.
As this information may be of interest to other members of the public, Health NZ may proactively
release a copy of this response on our website. Al requester data, including your name and
contact details, wil be removed prior to release.
Nāku iti noa, nā
Danielle Coe
Manager (OIA) Government Services
Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora
TeWhatuOra.govt.nz
Health NZ, PO Box 793,
Wellington 6140, New Zealand
