Monday Pānui 16 June 2025

In today’s Pānui	PSAAP Negotiations for Funding Uplift Recording Immunisations in AIR New Nurse Graduate Funding
PSAAP Negotiations for Funding Uplift	Most areas in the annual funding uplift as offered by Health New Zealand have been agreed to by the Contracted Provider Caucus and the PHO Negotiators. There is a ‘sticking point” of contingent capitation which is the $60million funding stream that is contingent on data sharing.  There are questions from the PHO caucus and the Contracted Provider caucus regarding how data governance and data sharing would work, as well as questions regarding the impact of GPs choosing not to share data and how this would impact on their ability to charge fees (noted in red above).  The ‘sticking point’ has stalled negotiations which will allow Contracted Providers time to consult and gain legal advice. All parties are working at pace in order for negotiations to end, so that practice receive the capitation uplift and co-payment increase directive by 1 July 2025.  Please DO NOT increase practice co-payments until PSAAP parties have reached an agreement.  You will be notified as soon as this occurs. If you have any questions about this, please get in touch with Barbara – barbara@aucklandpho.co.nz
Recording Immunisations in AIR	As most are aware, not all immunisation records from the PMS are reaching AIR and vice versa. This affects practices immunisation targets and the delivery immunisation services. Many issues are known and can be fixed in the PMS to ensure that immunisation records can be successfully transferred and meet the data quality requirements in AIR. The Te Whatu Ora document PMS – AIR Known Immunisation Issues – Problem Solving Guide (April 2025 Version 4.1)  This resource also be found on the Auckland PHO website’s Resource Library, under AIR Resources & Support (password to enter library: aucklandpho) If you have any questions about recording immunisations, please contact shanaz@aucklandpho.co.nz
New Nurse Graduate Funding	The employment of new graduate nurses who are attending the Waitematā PHC new graduate nurse programme, will need to be sourced via the HNZ initiative,  “Incentivising primary care employers to attract, recruit, and support 400 new graduate RN per year from 2025”. This initiative is intended to support and build on the previous initiative ‘ACE 200’ - Employment of 200 graduate RNs into primary health care. Following a similar process to that of the previous one, the new initiative provides incentive funding to support employment of up to 400 new graduate RN annually into primary care and community workforce including: $20,000 per graduate RN employed by rural primary and community health providers. $15,000 per graduate RN employed by urban primary and community health providers. If you are interested in employing a new graduate nurse under this scheme, for September 2025, check out the link below.  Contact Siobhan@aucklandpho.co.nz if you would like to discuss further. The eligibility and funding application forms can be found here, Primary and Community Sector Placement Funding – Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora

Barbara Stevens | Tumu Whakarae/CEO