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Speaker 1: So howth New Zealand's new workforce plan makes for some

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Speaker 1: grim reading. They release the numbers we need another fifty

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Speaker 1: or let's try this, two hundred and fifty doctors in

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Speaker 1: the next ten years and six three hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: nurses now joining me right now is Health New Zealand

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Speaker 1: ceomarji appahamrjie.

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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 1: How do we fill numbers that big? That's massive.

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Speaker 2: Well as well most of them progressive new thing certainly

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Speaker 2: put doctors. We got a lot of work to do

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Speaker 2: to recruit but also important to grow our own and

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Speaker 2: so you know, we're really pleased that the initiatives governments

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Speaker 2: now to increase the number of doctor training. But in

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Speaker 2: the plan, you know, we've got some really practical things

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Speaker 2: that we need to do, not just in social recruitment,

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Speaker 2: but really focusing on those specialties that need more doctors,

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Speaker 2: growing our your advancing working with private hospitals to get

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Speaker 2: there involved in helping us train our staff. But also importantly,

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Speaker 2: we have a lot of doctors that leave the country

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Speaker 2: early in their career and we want to look at

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Speaker 2: how we make advanced employment officers and know that they

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Speaker 2: can come home to a job.

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Speaker 1: So if we're looking for some good news here. It's

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Speaker 1: the fact that we are actually catching up with the nurses.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: We've managed to fill a whole bunch of vacancies, but

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Speaker 1: we're still not giving all the nurses graduating jobs.

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Speaker 2: Why not, Well, we have offered new grad jobs when

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Speaker 2: we've had turnover, so they're still in existing vacancies. Of course,

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Speaker 2: this year our vacancy is dropped right down to just

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Speaker 2: over two percent, which is quite unusual for our sector.

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Speaker 2: So we are looking at other ways to create employment opportunities.

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Speaker 2: We're putting up some funding to the funded sector primary

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Speaker 2: care additual peer to take these squared, but we're also

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Speaker 2: looking at how we can create some other opportunities within

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Speaker 2: Health New Zealand, even if it means that we're giving

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Speaker 2: them some temperate experience for a year or two. But

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Speaker 2: certainly would like to see our turnover rates go up,

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Speaker 2: which was.

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Speaker 1: Mighty don't we have? Don't we have vacancies currently twenty

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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty vacancies for nurses.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and some of those this is for specialized areas

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Speaker 2: and there are areas I've got for example.

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Speaker 1: Right, Marjie, is it a case of we may have

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Speaker 1: vacancies for senior nurses which cannot be filled by graduates.

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Speaker 2: Correct, correct, But we would like to encourage our new

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Speaker 2: grad nurses. I've got a couple of hungred vacancies and

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Speaker 2: mental health for example, we'd be really keen to see

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Speaker 2: some of those roles with some HELPFULCE or good supervision.

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Speaker 2: Can you new grads can go into mental health rural

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Speaker 2: and provincial areas. We've got vacancies there that would like

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Speaker 2: to encourage new grads even if they have to shift,

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Speaker 2: and if we have to help them make that move,

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Speaker 2: you know, we'd like to put them to look at

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Speaker 2: those opportunities as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, brilliant. Hey, thanks for talking U throughout Marjori upper House,

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