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Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

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Do any categories of roles at Health NZ currently require regional approval in their recruitment process, if so, which categories of roles?

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Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

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What papers, if any, did the Minister take to Cabinet during the week beginning 7 September 2026, by title and date?

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Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

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What papers, if any, did the Minister take to Cabinet during the week beginning 7 September 2026, by title and date?

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Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

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What papers, if any, did the Minister take to Cabinet during the week beginning 7 September 2026, by title and date?

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Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

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What papers, if any, did the Minister take to Cabinet during the week beginning 7 September 2026, by title and date?

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Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

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What aides-mémoire, briefings, memos, notes, reports, or any other advice, if any, has the Minister or their Office received during the week beginning 7 September 2026, listed by agency, title and date received?

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Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

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What aides-mémoire, briefings, memos, notes, reports, or any other advice, if any, has the Minister or their Office received during the week beginning 7 September 2026, listed by agency, title and date received?

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Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

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What aides-mémoire, briefings, memos, notes, reports, or any other advice, if any, has the Minister or their Office received during the week beginning 7 September 2026, listed by agency, title and date received?

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Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

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What aides-mémoire, briefings, memos, notes, reports, or any other advice, if any, has the Minister or their Office received during the week beginning 7 September 2026, listed by agency, title and date received?

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Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

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Which services, if any, count as an "in-person urgent care service" for the purpose of measuring the target of 98 percent of New Zealanders able to receive in-person urgent care within one hour’s drive of their homes, and are on-call-only…

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Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

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Is the Government on track to have 98 per cent of New Zealanders within a 60-minute drive of an in-person urgent care service by mid-2029?

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Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

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What percentage, if any, of New Zealanders does he expect to be within a 60-minute drive of an in-person urgent care service at the end of each of the four years of implementing Budget 2025's $164 million funding for improving urgent care…

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Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

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How many New Zealanders, if any, are expected to remain more than a 60-minute drive from an in-person urgent care service in 2029 after Budget 2025's funding to expand urgent and after-hours healthcare services over four years?

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Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

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What has been the total cost of the urgent and after-hours healthcare programme to date, including any funding, if any, drawn from sources other than the $164 million appropriated in Budget 2025?

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Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

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Is the urgent and after-hours healthcare programme on track to be delivered within Budget 2025's $164 million appropriated over four years?

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Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

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Is the $164 million committed to urgent and after-hours healthcare in Budget 2025 sufficient to deliver all the services set out in the framework, and if not, what additional funding, if any, will be required?

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Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

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What forecast, if any, has been made of the total cost of implementing the urgent and after-hours healthcare framework, and what is that forecast?

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Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

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How many urgent care vouchers, if any, were issued at each emergency department in each of the past three years, and what percentage, if any, were used?

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Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

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What was the total cost, if any, of urgent care vouchers issued through ED diversion or redirection schemes in each of the past three years, broken down by emergency department?

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Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

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How many, if any, triage 4 and 5 emergency department attendances were diverted or redirected to urgent care in the most recent 12 months, broken down by ED and month?

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Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

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Does Health New Zealand collect nationally consistent data on ED diversion and redirection offers and uptake, and if not, when, if at all, will it begin doing so?

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Ingrid Leary

Member for Taieri · Labour Party

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Further to his answer to written question 37367 (2026): how is this information held?

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Ingrid Leary

Member for Taieri · Labour Party

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Further to his answer to written question 37367 (2026): does any part of Health New Zealand collect this information, if so, which?

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Ingrid Leary

Member for Taieri · Labour Party

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Further to his answer to written question 37367 (2026): which part is not held centrally?

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Ingrid Leary

Member for Taieri · Labour Party

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Further to his answer to written question 37367 (2026): is he concerned that Health New Zealand does not hold this information, if not, why not?

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Ingrid Leary

Member for Taieri · Labour Party

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Further to his answer to written question 37368 (2026): how is this information held?

Asked by

Ingrid Leary

Member for Taieri · Labour Party

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Further to his answer to written question 37368 (2026): does any part of Health New Zealand collect this information, if so, which?

Asked by

Ingrid Leary

Member for Taieri · Labour Party

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Further to his answer to written question 37368 (2026): which part is not held centrally?

Asked by

Ingrid Leary

Member for Taieri · Labour Party

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Further to his answer to written question 37368 (2026): is he concerned that Health New Zealand does not hold this information, if not, why not?

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Ingrid Leary

Member for Taieri · Labour Party

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How will Health New Zealand ensure that those, living with dementia, who currently receive home support, are in consent over changes to who is providing their care; how will this be communicated, and within what time frame before changes?

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Ingrid Leary

Member for Taieri · Labour Party

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From which evidence did Health New Zealand base the new restorative service model for at-home care for older and disabled people; who conducted the research, and when?

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Ingrid Leary

Member for Taieri · Labour Party

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Which specific criteria did Health New Zealand look at, when considering applicants for future contracts for at-home care for older and disabled care?

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Ingrid Leary

Member for Taieri · Labour Party

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With changes to at-home care for older and disabled people, will Health New Zealand extend protections under Part 6A of the Employment Relations Act, to support workers providing at-home aged care, to ensure employment continuity, as…

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Ingrid Leary

Member for Taieri · Labour Party

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Have unsuccessful applicants, for future contracts to provide at-home care for older and disabled people, been sent feedback as to why they were unsuccessful; if so, when?

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Ingrid Leary

Member for Taieri · Labour Party

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When, and how, will Health New Zealand inform the older and disabled people who receive at-home care, of a change from their current community-based provider to a new contractor, if applicable, and if at all?

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Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

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What funded on-call service, if any, is now operating at Central Hawke's Bay, as proposed in Appendix 2 of New and improved urgent and after-hours healthcare (May 2025), which recorded current hours of weekdays 0900-1800, no weekend…

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Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

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Have the proposed hours of weekdays 0800-2000 and weekends 0900-1700 been implemented at Dannevirke, as set out in Appendix 2 of New and improved urgent and after-hours healthcare (May 2025), which recorded current hours of weekdays…

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Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

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What funded on-call service, if any, is now operating at Fielding, as proposed in Appendix 2 of New and improved urgent and after-hours healthcare (May 2025), which recorded current hours of weekdays 0800-1700, Saturday 0800-1145 and…

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Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

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Have the proposed hours of weekdays 0800-2200 and weekends 0800-2200 been implemented at Hutt Valley, as set out in Appendix 2 of New and improved urgent and after-hours healthcare (May 2025), which recorded current hours of weekdays…

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Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

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Are the hours of weekdays 0800-2000, weekends 0800-2000 recorded for Hastings in Appendix 2 of New and improved urgent and after-hours healthcare (May 2025) still being provided in full, and if not, what are the current hours and what…

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Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

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Are the hours of weekdays 0800-2000, weekends 0800-2000 recorded for Kapiti in Appendix 2 of New and improved urgent and after-hours healthcare (May 2025) still being provided in full, and if not, what are the current hours and what…

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Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

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Have the proposed hours of weekdays 0800-2000 and weekends 0900-1700 been implemented at Levin, as set out in Appendix 2 of New and improved urgent and after-hours healthcare (May 2025), which recorded current hours of weekdays 0800-1700,…

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Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

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What funded on-call service, if any, is now operating at South Wairarapa, as proposed in Appendix 2 of New and improved urgent and after-hours healthcare (May 2025), which recorded current hours of Monday to Wednesday 0800-1700, Thursday…

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Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

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Have the proposed hours of weekdays 1700-2000 and weekends 0900-1700 been implemented at Masterton, as set out in Appendix 2 of New and improved urgent and after-hours healthcare (May 2025), which recorded current hours of closed on…

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Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

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Are the hours of weekdays 0800-2100, weekends 0800-2100, plus an overnight nurse service recorded for Napier in Appendix 2 of New and improved urgent and after-hours healthcare (May 2025) still being provided in full, and if not, what are…

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Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

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Is a 24/7 urgent care service now operating at Palmerston North, as proposed in Appendix 2 of New and improved urgent and after-hours healthcare (May 2025), which recorded current hours of weekdays 0800-2000, weekends 0800-2000, and when,…

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Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

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What funded on-call service, if any, is now operating at Taihape, as proposed in Appendix 2 of New and improved urgent and after-hours healthcare (May 2025), which recorded current hours of weekdays 0830-1700, Saturday 0900-1200, and a…

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Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

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Are the hours of 24 hours a day, seven days a week recorded for Porirua in Appendix 2 of New and improved urgent and after-hours healthcare (May 2025) still being provided in full, and if not, what are the current hours and what reduction,…

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Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

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Have the proposed hours of weekdays 0830-2000 and weekends 0900-1700 been implemented at Wairoa, as set out in Appendix 2 of New and improved urgent and after-hours healthcare (May 2025), which recorded current hours of weekdays 0830-1700,…

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Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

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Has the capability to increase hours at Wellington, recorded in Appendix 2 of New and improved urgent and after-hours healthcare (May 2025) alongside current hours of weekdays 0800-2100, weekends 0800-2100, been exercised, and if not, what…