Briefings to the Minister of Health: 2025

Type	Title
Aide-mémoire	Release of paper for feedback: Proposed national model for integrated adult palliative care
Joint aide-mémoire	Health NZ asset revaluation 2024/25 and impacts on capital charge and depreciation impact for 2025/26
Aide-mémoire	Access to ultrasound in primary care
Aide-mémoire	Quarterly update on the New Dunedin Hospital digital programme April-June 2025
Aide-mémoire	Update on BreastScreen Aotearoa age extension rollout
Event briefing	Private Surgical Hospital Association conference
Aide-mémoire	Update on orthopaedic advanced clinical practice physiotherapy (musculoskeletal (MSK) pathway)
Aide-mémoire	Ovarian cancer guidelines
Aide mémoire	Ovarian cancer register
Event briefing	Attendance at New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) AGM and conference 17 September 2025
Aide-mémoire	Diagnostics boost programme: Confirmation and public announcements
Aide-mémoire	HWIP quarterly June 2025 workforce data
Meeting briefing	Meeting with Access Community Care – 17 September 2025
Aide-mémoire	Responding to the Health Select Committee's report on advance directives
Aide-mémoire	Oral health service improvements - further information
Meeting briefing	Asthma New Zealand and Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand
Event briefing	Small-scale infrastructure projects
Meeting briefing	Meeting with Brightly, 23 September 2025
Meeting briefing	Meeting with the Royal Australian and NZ College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) Sept 2025
Aide-mémoire	Quarter 4 performance report
Event briefing	Bowel screening age extension event
Event briefing	Wairarapa Hospital visit 1 October 2025

List of briefings to the Minister of Health: August 2025

Type	Title
Briefing	Sapere report on aged care modelling options - public release
Aide-mémoire	Workshop - HNZ commissioning (funded sector) budget
Briefing	Health infrastructure officials – updated implementation plan
Aide-mémoire	Further information about activity to improve access to cancer treatment in Te Waipounamu
Meeting briefing	Meeting with Whakatāne Grey Power
Event briefing	Opening of the Rutherford Clinic
Event briefing	Tauranga Hospital ICU/HDU and CCU
Aide-mémoire	Update on hospital security
Aide-mémoire	Infrastructure officials meeting, Monday 11 August
Aide-mémoire	Cost to health system of international visitors not eligible for funded health care
Briefing	Health infrastructure plan implementation - approval of capital to operating swap
Meeting briefing	Serco
Event briefing	Visit to Botany Downs birthing unit – Announcement of immunisation funding for lead maternity carers (LMCs)
Meeting briefing	Meeting with MedicAlert Foundation New Zealand on 21 August 2025
Meeting briefing	Meeting with Xebo, 21 August 2025
Meeting briefing	National Clinical Renal Network
Aide-mémoire	Health capital update as at 30 June 2025
Aide-mémoire	Further information about hyper-acute stroke initiatives

List of briefings to the Minister of Health: July 2025

Type	Title
Briefing	Health infrastructure plan – implementation plan
Aide-mémoire	Delivery plan – Production plans
Briefing	Health New Zealand execution of an easement with Vector Limited for Greenlane Hospital
Aide-mémoire	HWIP Quarterly March 2025 workforce data
Briefing	Christchurch Parkside Endoscopy
Briefing	Health New Zealand execution of an easement with Alpine Energy Limited for Talbot Community Health Hub
Aide-mémoire	Elective Boost – volumes for 2025/2026
Briefing	Health New Zealand execution of an easement with Wellington Electricity Lines Limited for Hutt Hospital
Aide-mémoire	Budget 2025 FIRP implementation business cases
Aide-mémoire	Budget 2025 asset remediation projects
Briefing	Update on immunising our tamariki
Meeting briefing	Meeting with STONZ: 15 July 2025
Meeting briefing	Current state of paediatric palliative care - for visit with families
Meeting briefing	Meeting with Stroke Aotearoa NZ on 17 July
Aide-mémoire	Health capital update as at 31 May 2025
Briefing	2024–27 New Zealand Health Plan
Meeting briefing	Meeting with the PSA – 22 July 2025
Briefing	Options for increasing funding of the General Practitioner Education Programme
Aide-mémoire	Application processes for PHO decisions
Meeting briefing	Meeting with GenPro on 24 July 2025
Aide-mémoire	Ultrasounds
Event briefing	Visit to Timaru Hospital on 25 July
Event briefing	Visits to Ashburton Hospital on 25 July
Meeting briefing	Allevia Health
Meeting briefing	Meeting with an emergency medicine specialist on registration and recruitment of international doctors
Aide-mémoire	Overview of oral health services for 0–18 year olds
Aide-mémoire	Breast cancer screening age extension - October 2025 rollout
Aide-mémoire	Health targets – December to January target performance
Aide-mémoire	Orthopaedic advanced clinical practice physiotherapy FSAs (MSK pathway) – update and scaling options
Aide-mémoire	Monthly performance report – May 2025
Meeting briefing	Meeting with Aotearoa Clinical Trials Trust (ACTT)
Event briefing	Opening of Hutt Valley After Hours Medical Centre
Meeting briefing	Meeting with College of Emergency Nurses New Zealand Committee
Event briefing	Opening of upgraded Boulcott Hospital
Aide-mémoire	Dargaville Hospital update
Aide-mémoire	Processes to establish new pharmacies
Aide-mémoire	Health Action Wānaka's quick wins
Aide-mémoire	Community referred radiology implementation progress
Aide-mémoire	Reducing the FSA waitlist by modernising specialist advice and care
Aide-mémoire	Addressing gout in New Zealand

List of briefings to the Minister of Health: June 2025

Type	Title
Aide-mémoire	Nelson Hospital Governance Group
Briefing	Canterbury Neonatal Unit reconfiguration business case

List of briefings to the Minister of Health: May 2025

Type	Title
Aide-mémoire	Context for current primary care papers
Aide-mémoire	Budget 2025/26 and financial sustainability plan update
Briefing	Options for enhanced capitation and the annual uplift further advice
Aide-mémoire	Update on graduate nurse employment prospects for 2025/26
Briefing	2025/26 Contract uplifts for the primary and community sector

List of briefings to the Minister of Health: April 2025

Type	Title
Briefing	Life preserving services
Aide-mémoire	Implementation update: Enhanced capitation
Aide-mémoire	Infrastructure and Investment Group reporting March 2025
Briefing	Auckland City Hospital lnterventional Radiology Stage 1
Aide-mémoire	Nursing graduates modelling, numbers and planning
Aide-mémoire	Health NZ change - impact of data and digital proposals
Briefing	Nelson Hospital redevelopment scope change
Briefing	Proactive release of cabinet paper - breast screening age extension and minutes of decision
Aide-mémoire	Ambient scribes
Briefing	Update on progress for launch of digital 24/7 service
Meeting briefing	Meeting with Dr Hutchinson to discuss public hospital re-development in Hawkes Bay

List of briefings to the Minister of Health: March 2025

Type	Title
Aide-mémoire	Health NZ capital funding sources - the Vote Health capital appropriations and baseline depreciation
Joint aide-mémoire	Joint briefing - Holidays Act remediation programme
Aide-mémoire	Health New Zealand maintenance and renewals
Aide-mémoire	Deep dive for cyber security
Aide-mémoire	Greenlane Clinical Centre power outage update
Aide-mémoire	Strengthening the national laboratory system
Aide-mémoire	Overview of the national cervical screening programme
Briefing	Proactive release of briefing to the incoming Minister
Aide-mémoire	Accelerated procurement savings - update
Aide-mémoire	Information request Fruit in Schools
Briefing	Annual report to ministers on enhancement of infrastructure management (annual report back) 2023/24
Event briefing	Nelson Hospital visit 14 March 2025
Meeting briefing	Meeting with ProCare
Aide-mémoire	New Dunedin Hospital fortnightly report New Dunedin Hospital fortnightly report: Appendix 1
Aide-mémoire	Wairarapa orthopaedic first specialist assessments and elective treatment
Aide-mémoire	Wellington ED performance challenges and response
Aide-mémoire	Further detail on immunisation funding and delivery
Meeting briefing	Meeting with New Zealand Dental Association
Event briefing	Visit to Pegasus Health, Christchurch
Event briefing	Burwood Hospital visit - Thursday 20 March
Aide-mémoire	Napier after hours
Aide-mémoire	Project financing arrangements and car park EOls
Aide-mémoire	New Dunedin Hospital digital programme quarterly update
Aide-mémoire	International recruitment process overview V2
Aide-mémoire	Overview of the aged care sector
Event briefing	Opening of the new Mobile Dental Unit
Meeting briefing	Meeting with Roger Sowry, Chair of Whakarongorau
Meeting briefing	Ministerial Employment Relations Forum meeting
Meeting briefing	Meeting with Dr Amanda Evans re: Paediatric palliative care
Aide-mémoire	Whangārei Hospital redevelopment
Aide-mémoire	Echocardiogram and angiogram wait lists and wait times
Meeting briefing	Meeting with General Practitioners Aotearoa
Briefing	Hawke's Bay procedure rooms
Aide-mémoire	Health capital update report as at 31 January 2025 Appendix 1: Health capital update monthly Dashboard as at 31 January 2025
Aide-mémoire	Health NZ 2024/25 internal budget update and follow-up
Aide-mémoire	Quarter 2 performance report

Type	Title
Meeting briefing	Tend Health NZ
Meeting briefing	Meeting with New Zealand Nurses' Organisation
Briefing	Secondary briefing: Health infrastructure
Briefing	General Practice investment options to improve accessexternal linkPDF
Event briefing	Visit to Wairarapa Hospital
Aide-mémoire	Update on health capital projects
Event briefing	Visit to Palmerston North Regional Hospital, 26 February
Aide-mémoire	Cath lab risks at Capital Coast I Hutt Valley
Aide-mémoire	Digital strategy and investment planexternal linkPDF
Aide-mémoire	Use of Al-created clinical documentation
Aide-mémoire	HNZ financial update
Aide-mémoire	Update on the Quarter Two reporting timeline
Aide-mémoire	National electronic medical record
Aide-mémoire	Overview of the childhood immunisation health target
Aide-mémoire	Napier after-hours service options

List of briefings to the Minister of Health: January 2025

Published	19 December 2025
Author	Health New Zealand \| Te Whatu Ora
Region	National
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