Clinicians concerned about loss of IT staff – unions

NEWS – eHealthNews.nz editor Rebecca McBeth

Unions representing doctors and health staff are concerned about the impact of losing data and digital roles as Health New Zealand – Te Whatu Ora implements a hiring freeze and offers voluntary redundancies.

The national organisation has called for expressions of interest in voluntary redundancy from specialists working in information and analytics roles, administrators, procurement and supply chain, policy and programmes, communications, finance, and HR.

Speciality Trainees of New Zealand (STONZ), a union representing junior doctors, is concerned about the impact of “so-called back-office redundancies” on frontline medical staff and their patients.

STONZ executive member, Emma Littlehales says, “our members have already seen the effect of a hiring freeze on their work and how it has taken away practising time from them and increased their non-clinical hours. There is a real risk that this gets worse with these further cuts.

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