“We currently have more roles available in the digital team than people, and we are committed to enabling as many staff as possible to be retained or redeployed into roles in this team and elsewhere in the organisation,” Taite said in a statement.
Meanwhile, the chief IT officer said they are also retaining 1,460 roles nationally.
This is 175 higher than what was originally proposed, following legal action from the Public Service Association (PSA).
‘Dangerous’ cuts in Health NZ
But the PSA said the remaining cuts across Health NZ remain “too deep and too wide.”
“These cuts are dangerous – they threaten patient care and ignore the risks of sensitive patient information falling prey to cyber-attacks,” said Fleur Fitzsimons, National Secretary for the Public Service Association for Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi, in a statement.