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Do existing contracts for the delivery of publicly funded elective surgical services provided by third parties include contractual requirements to report pre-operative or post-operative complications? and 2 other questions

Answered 13977, 13978, 13979 (2026)
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Asked by

Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

Questions

  • 13977

    Do existing contracts for the delivery of publicly funded elective surgical services provided by third parties include contractual requirements to report pre-operative or post-operative complications?

  • 13978

    Do any existing contracts for the delivery of publicly funded elective surgical services provided by third parties include contractual requirements to report pre-operative or post-operative complications, if so how many?

  • 13979

    Has Health NZ terminated, before completion, any contracts for the delivery of publicly funded elective surgical services provided by third parties in the past five years, if so how many each year?

Answered by

Hon Simeon Brown

Member for Pakuranga · National Party · Minister of Health

Answer

I am advised that all 34 Surgical Panel agreements include the requirement for providers to report and escalate any complications that occur during and following a procedure, prior to the patient being discharged back to the referring district. This is part of Health New Zealand's policy of outsourcing procedures, an approach that has been used under successive governments, to support better value for money and making full use of available capacity across the health system to ensure more patients are seen and treated sooner.