Health
New Zealanders deserve a health service that
is modern, high quality, evidence based and
available to all, regardless of who you are or
where you live.

program rolled out to the remaining 10
DHBs in our first year.
• 

Better cancer care with improved targets
so cancer is treated sooner and $50M of
more access to more medicines to treat
cancer.

• 

A pilot for low dose CT scanning for lung
cancer with particular benefits to Māori.

National’s health policy will deliver better care,
sooner and closer to home
Services have become harder to access under
the current Government’s watch. After years
of continuous improvement under National,
waiting times are increasing and the number
of elective surgeries being carried out has
decreased. Every single health target is worse
now than when we left office. Deficits have
ballooned and the sector is struggling clinically
and financially as Kiwis miss out on the care
they need.
National will restore the focus in health to what
it should be: providing quality health services
to you and your family, enabling you to get
treatment better, sooner and closer to home
so you can focus on living rather than waiting
to be treated. This will restore confidence
in New Zealand’s public health system and
deliver care for you, your children and whānau.
National believes that everyone should have
the opportunity to live well and access world
class healthcare regardless of our income,
background or postcode.
National will ensure that New Zealand has
a working health system, where illnesses are
prevented as much as possible and care is
easily accessible.

Surgery
• 

Faster elective surgery, so that if you are
promised treatment in the standard 4
months then you will be operated on within
4 months.

• 

Equitable access to elective surgery
by replacing the post code lottery with
standard treatment levels across the
country.

Medicines
• 

A larger year on year increase in PHARMAC
funding than any time in the past decade
with $50 million per annum for cancer
drugs, regular increases in the combined
pharmaceutical budget per year at the
same level as vote health and $5 million
per annum for rare disorders.

Primary Care
• 

Start a request for proposal process to
establish a third graduate entry medical
school focused on retention of General
Practitioners in rural areas.

National will ensure that mental health is
treated just as importantly as physical health,
and that your ability to get a hip replacement
doesn’t depend on whether you live in Kaitaia,
Bluff or anywhere in between. We will deliver
care closer to home.

• 

Fund a primary care social worker type
navigator for every General Practice
location in New Zealand to project care
even further into the community and closer
to home.

Highlights:

Covid-19

Cancer
• 

Cancer diagnosis sooner with the
previously delayed bowel cancer screening

No pandemic in living memory has brought
about as much global disruption as Covid-19.
1

 Kiwis have sacrificed much through the
restrictions of lockdown and we can all be
proud that our collective effort has, so far,
worked well.

National will actually secure the border as
promised to keep New Zealanders safe.

Because of the actions of all New Zealanders,
our health system has held up to Covid-19
better than many around the world. However,
cracks in Labour’s response are starting to
show.

National will establish a unified Crown Agency
to manage the Government response and
secure the border, the first and best line of
defence New Zealand has against Covid-19.

There are only four actions New Zealand has
to stop the spread of Covid-19:
• 

Testing at the border and in the community

• 

Contact Tracing

• 

Use appropriate PPE (Personal Protective
Equipment), such as masks

• 

Physical Distancing

Labour could have done better to adequately
protect New Zealand using these tools. Staff
at the border weren’t being tested and even
today Day 3 testing is still not compulsory. The
case definition has changed so many times
that on Sunday July 19 only 8 people were
tested in the community across the whole
country.
Contact tracing for Auckland came online
barely 10 days before the August Auckland
outbreak and there is still no Bluetooth offering
for contact tracing.
The Office of the Auditor General made 10
recommendations around gaps in PPE when,
at the same time, we were being told that
doctors, nurses and aged care staff had
enough PPE. The current arrangements are
ad-hoc and have been assembled in haste.
The August Auckland outbreak could have
been better with a disorderly and confused
response, miscommunication and insufficient
testing. With multi-agency meddling and no
clear leadership.
New Zealanders have sacrificed a lot to give
us the best chance of beating this virus and
they deserve a government with a plan to
protect this sacrifice.

Border Protection Agency

New Zealand needs a coordinated and
professional response for the years to
come, with a well trained workforce within a
structured and compliance focused border
control agency.
The Agency will report to a Minister
responsible, who will have clear oversight to
ensure operational excellence is a priority.
The Border Protection Agency will develop and
implement long term policies and plans for
safe and efficient international travel. In the
shorter term, the agency will administer policy
and procedures for:
• 

Approving operations and develop
protocols for managed isolation and
quarantine facilities and provide security.

• 

Ensure effective training and safety
protocols for all staff involved in border
control, managed isolation and
quarantine.

• 

Managing protocols for port movements,
freight and testing procedures at ports.

• 

Conducting medical testing for Covid-19.

• 

Receiving returning Kiwis and visitors at the
border and ensuring pre-border checks
including pre-flight negative Covid test for
people coming into New Zealand.

• 

Transferring people to managed isolation
facilities.

• 

Acting as a centre of expertise on
pandemic containment and best practice.

• 

Working with businesses to ensure safe
practices. Specifically tailoring plans for
small business, retailers and manufacturers.

• 

Considering expansion of entry
qualifications and timing.
2

 Coronavirus Summit
National will convene an immediate Public
Health Summit that would bring all aspects of
our community together, from public health
specialists, primary care teams, Iwi leadership,
Business New Zealand, manufacturing and
the unions, so we can all agree on what’s best
practice for the country.
The summit will review lockdown levels and
discuss other public health measures to
minimise future lockdowns. We are committed
to the elimination approach, the summit’s
review of the alert levels will give us the
best chance of recovering the jobs lost and
preventing further losses.
It is clear that Covid-19 is going to be with us
for some time. We need to find the best ways
of ensuring that we continue to eliminate this
disease, and allow our economy to flourish.

Preparing for Future Pandemics
The Influenza Pandemic Action Plan prepared
by the previous National Government has
been integral in New Zealand’s response to
Covid-19. However, this must be updated
to reflect lessons learnt from the Covid-19
pandemic.
Changes may include, centralising PPE
logistics and contact tracing functions, regular
inventory of national stocks, equipment and
facilities such as negative pressure rooms,
ventilators and community surveillance
programs.
National will:
• 

Review and update the long term
pandemic plan to reflect lessons learnt
from the Covid-19 pandemic.

• 

Increase the workforce development of
public health specialists to prepare for the
future.

Better Care, Sooner
and Closer to Home
Elective Surgery Commitment
National will enact an elective surgery
commitment to provide better healthcare,
sooner.
We will reinstate the commitment introduced
by the previous National Government to
increase the number of elective surgeries by a
minimum of 4,000 a year.
Under our plan every Kiwi that needs elective
surgery will receive surgery within the promise
made to them of four months from the decision
to treat. If their local DHB cannot do it, they will
be required to source an alternative provider.
An elective surgery is planned in advance
rather than done in an emergency situation.
It includes vitally important operations like hip
replacements and cataract surgery.
Too many Kiwis are left languishing on long
waiting list for months despite having a
commitment for surgery and the Covid-19
lockdown has made these waiting lists even
longer.
National will have clear elective surgery
targets for each DHB to meet and these will
be funded. When setting targets, we’ll take
into account the relative complexity of the
surgeries being carried out as well as the
number of procedures. We’ll also ensure this
is publicly reported on so that Kiwis can hold
their DHBs to account.
We will also get rid of the postcode lottery to
qualify for surgery so that the score required
for surgery is the same all over the country no
matter where you live
National will:
• 

Commit to elective surgery sooner, so
that if you are promised treatment in the
standard four months then you will be
operated on within four months.

• 

Ensure equal and fair access to elective
surgery by replacing the post code lottery
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 with standard treatment levels across the
country.

Better Funding for Medicines
National remains committed to the PHARMAC
model. We will ensure that it receives the
funding it needs to fulfil its mandate and that
Kiwis have the best possible access to the
medicines they need. In return we will have
expectations of PHARMAC around timeliness
and transparency of decision making and
overall effectiveness compared to international
benchmarks.

We will create a National Cancer Agency that
would be independent of the Ministry of Health
and will focus on greater accountability and
consistency of access across New Zealand,
ensuring all New Zealanders get better care,
closer to home.
We will establish a $50 million per year fund
within PHARMAC to buy cancer drugs to
ensure all New Zealanders have access to
better cancer medicine, sooner.

National will:

National will focus on prevention, early
detection and prompt treatment. Cancer
is New Zealand’s biggest killer, with almost
10,000 Kiwis dying of cancer every year.
Under National, New Zealand made good
progress in improving cancer survival, where
the death rate per 100,000 fell ten per cent
between 2008 and 2017. Understanding what
stage patients are at when diagnosed will
help to improve treatment and ensure earlier
diagnoses.

• 

Maintain PHARMAC funding increases at
the same rate as Health budget increases.

National will:

• 

Introduce timeliness targets for decisions
on funding medicines.

• 

Ensure there is more transparency in the
decision-making process.

• 

Commit $20 million toward a funding pool
for rare disorders over 4 years.

• 

Commit $50 million toward a dedicated
cancer drug fund per year.

When in Government, National increased
medicine funding by an average of $24 million
per year. The consistent increases in funding
meant that 800,000 more Kiwis benefited
from access to medicine. We will ensure that
Pharmac receives the funding it requires.

World Class Cancer Care
The sad reality is that most New Zealand
families will be affected by cancer. Cancer
doesn’t discriminate when it chooses its victims
and people shouldn’t have reduced access to
treatment depending on their postcode.
New Zealanders shouldn’t have to pack up
their lives and go to other countries for cancer
treatment. New Zealanders shouldn’t have to
mortgage their houses, set up a Givealittle
page or take out massive loans to be able to
afford medicines which are funded in other
countries.

• 

Create a National Cancer Agency for the
management of cancer data and policies
nationwide.

• 

Increase the target from 90 per cent to 95
per cent of patients at high risk of cancer
and needing to be seen within two weeks
and treatment started within 62 days.

• 

Accelerate the rollout of the previously
delayed Bowel Cancer Screening project.

• 

Introduce a gynaecological cancer
program.

• 

Commit to a transition from cervical pap
smears to more effective HPV testing.

• 

Start building for the three radiotherapy
machines promised for Hawkes Bay,
Northland, and Taranaki in our first year in
Government.

• 

Provide more funding per year to
PHARMAC for cancer medicines than
almost the whole PHARMAC budget
increase for all medicines last year.

4

 Expanding Primary Care People
Primary care is the gateway to secondary
care and a key stakeholder in delivering care
closer to home. More and more is being asked
of primary care as a tsunami of mental health
and high needs patients make their way
towards General Practitioners.
National recognises this increase demand
coupled with the benefits of care closer to
home and so we will fundamentally alter the
nature of the primary care team by funding a
new addition.
We will add a primary care navigator to every
General Practice location. The primary care
navigator will have a range of skills from a
social worker to a lived experience practitioner
with appropriate qualifications.
Primary care navigators will provide
counselling, interface with government
agencies, follow up appointments and
referrals, do home visits and implement
primary care health plans collaborated with
each general practice.
Navigators will have a sound knowledge of
local services and providers and understand
how to access and sign post to services.
They are aware of current locality initiatives,
including prevention initiatives and able to
offer this information to patients/service
users. The primary care navigator is an expert
facilitator and co-ordinator.
National will:
• 

Provide funding so that every General
Practice location has a government
funded primary care navigator.

Expanding Primary Care Scope
National is committed to improving the quality
of our primary care services to ensure every
New Zealander has access to the best care,
when they need it. Primary care is the health
care we receive in our community. A strong
primary health system is key to improving the
health of all New Zealanders.
Many people in primary care, for example,
pharmacists have skills that they are ready

and willing to use that will unburden busy
hospitals and GP surgeries
National will support increases in scope for
primary care practitioners.
National will:
• 

Support further development of primary
care practitioners with special interests to
allow for better care in low socioeconomic
areas.

• 

Support expanding the pharmacy scope
of services offered by pharmacies.

• 

Explore establishing an unused medicines
return depository to help low income
and vulnerable people access cancer
medicines.

Maternity Care
The arrival of a new baby is one of the
most joyous event for new parents, families
and whānau. National will ensure that the
necessary support is in place to protect the
health of Mum and baby, and to ensure that
every child gets the best start in life.
In the first few days after giving birth, mums
can experience the baby blues, have difficulty
breastfeeding, be exhausted and sometimes
just need a bit of extra help to build up
confidence. Mothers in rural New Zealand have
been especially poorly served by maternity
services. National will reverse this trend and
ensure all new mums are supported.
National will:
• 

Guaranteed three days post-natal stay for
mothers and their babies.

• 

Re-establish the birthing unit at Lumsden.

• 

Establish a birthing unit at Wanaka.

Eyes and Ears
Cochlear implants can be life changing
for people with hearing loss. Despite this,
Labour cruelly reversed the previous National
Government’s commitment to increase the
number of adult cochlear implants to help
people with profound hearing loss, hear again.
5

 Around 200 people are currently on the
waiting list for adult cochlear implants. If
the number of implants is not increased the
waiting list could grow to 500 in as little as five
years.
New Zealand needs to plan and strategize
to meet the demands created by its ageing
population. National will undertake the first
ever nationwide eye health survey to make
sure we have the resources to provide highquality eye care for all Kiwis.
National will:
• 

Increase funding for the number of adult
cochlear implants from 40 to 100 per year.

• 

Undertake the first ever national eye health
survey.

Obesity
Obesity and its complications are a growing
problem in much of the developed world and
New Zealand is no exception. Around a third of
adults over age 15 were recorded as obese in
last year’s New Zealand Health Survey. Obesity
increases the risk of serious health problems
like heart disease, high blood pressure and
Type 2 diabetes, as well as affecting Kiwis’
quality of life.
Obesity, particularly in children, is one of the
most pressing health challenges we face and
National isn’t afraid to tackle it. In 2015, the
National Government released a Childhood
Obesity Plan which has helped to slow the rise
in childhood obesity. However, the number of
children suffering from obesity remains high.
National will update this strategy and widen it
to include people of all ages.
National will:
• 

• 

Replace the 2015 Childhood Obesity Plan
with a new national strategy covering all
age groups.
Expand the “Daily Mile” programme to
more New Zealand schools.

Gynaecological Health
Surgical mesh implants have been used since
the late 1990s for gynaecological surgery
where other treatments are unsuitable or have
failed.
Surgical mesh is often recommended by
specialists. However, we now know that
some patients experience complications
immediately after their operation, while others
develop those years later. Complications
may range from mild to debilitating and can
severely affect an individual’s quality of life.
Every year in New Zealand, over 1,000 women
are diagnosed with, and over 475 die from, one
of the five gynaecological cancers (cervical,
ovarian, uterine, vaginal and vulva).
While we do screen for cervical cancer, rates
have been dropping and there are significant
disparities in coverage among different subpopulations (ethnicity, socio-economic status,
geographies).
National will provide targeted funding of $20
million over four years to reduce mortality rates
of gynaecological cancer through greater
awareness, clinical guidelines, increased
testing and greater access to clinical trials.
This aligns with the NZ Cancer Action Plan
to ensure lower cancer rates and increased
survival.
National will:
• 

Establish a surgical mesh register to allow
for the full scope of the problem to be
revealed, and to allow for proactive action
to be taken to work with patients who may
be affected.

• 

Establish a gynaecological cancer
program including education, testing and
clinical trials.

• 

Commit to a transition from pap cervical
smears to more effective HPV testing.

Health Targets
National believes Kiwis deserve world
class healthcare. To reach this goal we are
committed to re-establishing National Health
6

 targets. So that Kiwis can have confidence in
the services being provided to them. Targets
require healthcare providers to focus on the
outcomes that are important to Kiwis.
Every health target is worse now than when
we left office in 2017. It’s clear this Government
doesn’t want you to know how your DHB is
doing. It no longer has high expectations for
performance, and doesn’t publish data.
One example that underscores the importance
of effective targets is emergency department
waiting times. According to University of
Waikato research, National’s waiting time
targets saved 700 lives every year.
National will:
• 

Restore and update National Health
Targets.

• 

Require quarterly performance reporting
against those targets to be made public.

Address Inequalities
National is committed to addressing
inequalities in our health systems. Multiple
reports including from the Waitangi Tribunal
have stated that these inequalities must be
addressed. These inequities disproportionately
affect Māori and Pasifika. We can see this in
poorer health outcomes. For example, average
life expectancy for Māori is more than seven
years lower than New Zealand Europeans.
National will:
• 
• 

• 

Pass all health legislation through an
inequality filter.
Require the annual Māori Health
strategy to identify inequality measures,
recommend interventions and monitor
effectiveness against inequality targets.
Pilot low dose CT scanning for lung cancer
recommended by the Māori Affairs Health
Select Committee inquiry into Māori health
inequalities.

• 

Develop education and promotion
frameworks for inequality.

• 

Require inequality measures be identified
within new and existing policy settings.

Rural Health
National will provide rural healthcare providers
with the resources and attention they require.
Everyone in rural New Zealand accepts they’ll
be a little further from a hospital. But they still
need access to services like screenings, clinics
and midwives.
National understands the specific and unique
health needs and hurdles in rural environments.
National will request proposals for a third
medical school which is focussed on the
training and retention or GPs in rural areas.
A third medical school will not only train
doctors for rural areas but will also help to
improve and inform rural health provision.
This will occur through the development
and advocacy of rural policies, data and
informatics, workforce development and
primary care in a rural context.
National will:
• 

Start a request for proposal process to
establish a third graduate entry medical
school focused on retention of General
Practitioners in rural areas.

• 

Progress digital technology solutions for
rural areas.

• 

Require rural data capture and tagging at
health system interfaces.

• 

Specifically address rural mental health
issues.

Māori Health
Inequities in New Zealand’s health system
disproportionately affect Māori.
We can see this in poorer health outcomes
and lower life expectancy: average life
expectancy for Māori is more than seven years
lower than Pākehā.
Māori also have higher demand for
health services. For example, Māori form
approximately 16 per cent of New Zealand’s
population, yet account for 26 per cent of all
mental health service users.

7

 Any group of New Zealanders having poorer
health outcomes is simply unacceptable.
National will institute targeted interventions
which will advance and promote Māori health
and lead to positive outcomes. We believe
that health targets will focus resources and
accountability on the areas of the health
sector that need the most improvement.
Through targets, we’ll once again seek to
address the discrepancies which exist in the
health system.
National will:
• 

Require DHBs to annually construct and
report against a Māori health strategy at
the board level.

• 

Add primary care navigators for care closer
to the home.

• 

Add health inequalities targets,
interventions and monitoring, to drive
improvements in Māori health.

• 

Pilot low dose CT lung cancer screening
for current and past smokers as
recommended by the Māori Affairs select
committee.

Digitally Enabled Service
Delivery
Virtually every aspect of modern life has been,
and will continue to be, radically reshaped by
innovation and technology. Healthcare is no
exception.  
National is committed to providing the best
digital health technologies to New Zealand.
Digital health technologies offer ways to selfmanage health, with a focus on preventing
illness rather than simply treating them.
Potentially allowing people to be treated not
just closer to home, but in their own home.
Digital health offers the possibility of a winwin-win.
It will reduce the administrative burden on
healthcare workers, freeing them up to treat
patients.
It will allow patients to take a more active role
in their own care.

It will be cheaper to deliver, allowing the health
budget to provide more services to more
people.
National will:
• 

Support software integration with DHBs,
ACC and community providers such as
laboratories, pharmacists and radiology
clinics.

• 

Provide support for care through video
consultations and other technology.

• 

Progress closed loop prescribing to remove
administrative burden on doctors and
pharmacists and reduce prescription errors.

Health Information Technology
(HIT) Governance
Despite many years and considerable
investment in electronic medical records, the
ability to access patient information within the
health sector remains fragmented and poor.
We will do better.
National will ensure that New Zealand’s Health
Information Technology (HIT) is world class.
This is essential as world class HIT services can
free up health staff to get on with what they
do best – treating patients, not navigating
archaic and complex IT systems.
National will:
• 

Explore DHB ring fencing of maintenance
funding for Health Information Technology
(HIT).

• 

Institute quarterly DHB reporting of
cybersecurity preparedness.

• 

Build up the Ministry of Health’s HIT
capacity.

• 

Ensure procurement of technology
solutions across all DHBs achieves
commonality and better value for money.

DHBs that are Financially
Viable
A functional health system relies on a firm
financial footing. The health sector is one of
the largest and most important parts of the
8

 economy. The public health system accounts
for $20 billion in annual government spending
and the health sector accounts for around 8
per cent of GDP.

and other healthcare workers can get back to
taking care of New Zealanders.

Given the amount of money involved and the
high stakes this is something that National will
get right.

• 

National will:

In February, before Covid-19, the 20 DHBs
were forecasting an annual deficit of over
$500 million. However, Covid-19 will make the
financial pressure on our health system even
worse.
National will address this by working with DHBs
and the health sector to address their deficits
and put them on a sustainable financial
footing.
National will:

Address primary care funding by:
• 

Exploring better targeting for Very Low
Cost Access funding.

• 

Reviewing utilisation rated funding
cycles.

• 

Exploring co-payment mechanisms for
people based on their ability to pay.

• 

Explore primary care governance of
investigations such as radiology and other
DHB directed community workflows such
as district nursing and dieticians.

• 

Identify costs shifted from secondary to
primary care and tag the funding to follow
where the work is actually done.
Review the funding system for
pharmaceuticals, including reviewing copay options.

• 

Set clear expectations for DHBs to live
within their means by way of accountability
agreements with Board Chairs.

• 

• 

Introduce clearer expectations for
DHBs to focus on care that reduces
demand, including cancer screening,
immunisations, and early intervention in
non-communicable diseases.

DHB Structure

• 

Benchmark DHBs on key clinical cost
drivers including staff levels, length of
stay, adverse events, hospital acquired
infections etc.

• 

Develop a DHB asset management
roadmap to support rebuilds and the
construction of new facilities and explore
ring fenced DHB repairs and maintenance
budgets.

• 

Fund the cost drivers of health.

Primary Care Funding
Primary care providers include most of the
medical professionals we interact with on
a day-to-day basis. Much like DHBs, many
primary care providers are struggling to find a
sustainable financial footing.
National will reduce funding pressures in the
primary care sector so that our GPs, Nurses

District Health Boards (DHBs) are an essential
component of New Zealand’s health system.
They ensure that each region gets a say in its
health system. National remains committed
to the DHB system but we intend to improve it
and make it more efficient.
National will move some DHB’s planning
and funding services to a regional level, and
some complex tasks to a national level. This
will allow DHBs to focus on providing care to
their local community and ensure they are not
bogged down in endless bureaucracy.
National will:
• 

Ensure that DHBs continue to provide
publicly funded, publicly provided
secondary and tertiary health services.

• 

Explore planning and funding or
commissioning functions at a regional level
and some complex services at a national
level.

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 • 

Enact a review of the governance of DHBs
to ensure the system remains fit for purpose
and attracts the right skills to boards.

Elevate Public Health
National will address the issues that Covid-19
has exposed and will ensure greater
coordination between Public Health Units to
provide the best possible care for the entire
country.
Covid-19 has highlighted issues with the
structure and funding of public health. Public
health funding makes up just 0.5 per cent of
the health budget.
The Pandemic Action Plan prepared by the
previous National Government has been
instrumental in New Zealand’s fight against
Covid-19. We will ensure that this is updated to
reflect all learnings from Covid-19, so that if we
are faced with another pandemic in the future
we can have the best possible response.

National will make Health Workforce NZ
(HWNZ) independent of the Ministry of
Health and task it with ensuring that our
health workforce can provide the quality and
quantity of services that New Zealanders
need, both now and into the future.
National will:
• 

Make HWNZ independent of the Ministry
and fund it to provide the key information
the sector needs to support workforce
planning.

• 

Utilise HWNZ to identify the looming gaps
in our workforce and engage with tertiary
education providers to ensure that enough
students are coming through to fill those
gaps in the future.

• 

Institute specific goals to ensure our health
workforce reflects the communities it
serves.

National will:
• 

Address issues with the structure and
funding of public health highlighted by
Covid-19.

• 

Commit to greater coordination across
Public Health Units.

• 

Review the Pandemic Action Plan in light of
the Covid-19 experience.

• 

Develop a public health workforce
responsive to future pandemics and public
health generally.

• 

Build public health capacity.

A 21st Century Health
Workforce
National is committed to ensuring New
Zealand has enough doctors, nurses and other
health professionals to ensure that every Kiwi
can get better care, sooner.
Health and disability services are
fundamentally about people: namely those
who need care, and those who devote their
lives to caring for others. However, more than
40 per cent of doctors and more than 45 per
cent of nurses are aged over 50.
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 Additional spending ($m)
Policy Costings - Health
National Party Policy

2021-22

2022-23

2023-24

2024-25

Four year
total

Surgical mesh register

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

8

Reinstate birthing unit at Lumsden
Maternity

0.3

0.3

0.3

0.3

1

Establish birthing unit at Wanaka

0.3

0.3

0.3

0.3

1

Cancer Fund within Pharmac

50

50

50

50

200

Gynae Cancer package

5

5

5

5

20

Interim Cancer Agency Board

1

3

Pharmac Budget Boost

35

35

35

35

140

Rare Disorders

5

5

5

5

20

Child Dental Package

30

30

30

30

120

Social Worker Navigator

21

43

64

64

192

Scope Increase Pharmacy

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

10

1

1

1

1

4

Pilot Low Dose CT Lung Scanning

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

6

Increase Cochlear Implants

8.4

8.4

8.4

8.4

34

National Eye Health Survey

0.5

0.5

0.5

0.5

2

VLCA Targeting

5

5

5

5

20

Rotorua Helicopter

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

6

Total new operating expenditure

170

193

212

212

788

Operating Expenditure

Medicines Reuse

4

Authorised by G Hamilton, 41 Pipitea Street, Wellington.

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