Health unions warn of $100m data and digital budget cut

HiNZ eHealthNews editor Rebecca McBeth.

Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora is planning on cutting $100 million from the organisation’s data and digital budget, health unions say.

A letter from seven health unions to chief executive Margie Apa says that on October 2 unions received a briefing on six elements of a savings programme at Te Whatu Ora which included a $100 million savings target for data and digital.

“We were informed that within each directorate, leadership teams are drawing up lists of projects, programmes and positions which will be disestablished. The disestablishment of any one of these projects, programmes or positions may well have significant risks or costs elsewhere in the organisation,” the letter says.

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