From Rachel Thomas at the Post:A $529 million pay equity sum for health workers that never arrived contributed to the deficit at Health NZ – Te Whatu Ora, the agency says. “In 2023/24, we expected to receive $529 million of funding to fully offset pay equity payments to allied health, midwifery and nursing staff. This would have contributed to Health NZ achieving a surplus of $583 million. “Pay equity funding was not received during the year, resulting in the target surplus expectation reducing to $54 million. Health NZ did not achieve this revised target surplus.”The payment for pay equity was delayed until September for some reason.
