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Speaker 1: Together do for cl Health New Zealand has ordered a

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Speaker 1: hiring freeze on all non frontline roles. In an internal email,

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Speaker 1: the chief executive Marji Upper told staff that Health New

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Speaker 1: Zealand had to reduce spending because it's already over budget

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Speaker 1: for the financial year. Andrew Slater is Health New Zealand's

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Speaker 1: Chief People Officer. High Andrew, Hey, Heather, Okay, how long

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Speaker 1: are you pausing recruitment?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, we're just pausing recruitment while we make sure

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Speaker 2: that we get the frontline moving. We've had a national

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Speaker 2: approval process on those roles for the last few months,

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Speaker 2: and then we'll be looking at the non frontline roles

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Speaker 2: been on pause while we set our budgets for the

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Speaker 2: coming financial year.

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Speaker 1: When does your financial year start?

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Speaker 2: The financial year starts in a couple of weeks. That

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Speaker 2: pauses likely to be on just as we enter July

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Speaker 2: August as well.

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Speaker 1: Why into August as well?

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Speaker 2: Yes, So, look, what we need to do is just

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Speaker 2: make sure that we get the frontline recruit truitment moving,

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Speaker 2: and then while we do that, the non frontline related

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Speaker 2: roles are paused while we have a national review, make

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Speaker 2: sure roles are still needed and go from there.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that sounds fine, but they the Association of Salary

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Speaker 1: Medical Specialists says this is affecting the front line. They

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Speaker 1: say they've got members who've not been able to recruit pedatricians, cardiologist, obstetricians, gynecologists,

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Speaker 1: cancer specials specialists, and public health physicians. So why can't

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Speaker 1: they get people?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so, look what we've had in place over the

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Speaker 2: last couple of months as an approval process, that was

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Speaker 2: approving recruitment on our frontline hospital roles. What this pause

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Speaker 2: does that we're doing at the moment while we regroup

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Speaker 2: is moving those recruitment decisions back down to local hands.

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Speaker 2: And we're putting the pause and the other approval processes

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Speaker 2: on our non non hospital, non frontline roles.

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Speaker 1: Okay, when are the people going to be able to

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Speaker 1: themselves approve hiring somebody like a cardiologist?

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Speaker 2: All right, Look, that will occur as we get our

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Speaker 2: budgets in place. But those decisions to do that local

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Speaker 2: recruitment for our hospitals and things will start being made

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Speaker 2: locally from next week.

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Speaker 1: Oh good, nobody can complain about that, Andrew, Thank you

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Speaker 1: very much. Andrew Slater, Chief People Office the Health New

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Speaker 1: Zealand so hopefully all those jobs will be able to

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Speaker 1: be filled from next week when they're basically able to

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