8548 (2024). Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall to the Minister of Health

8548 (2024). Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall to the Minister of Health: What progress, if any, has been made in the last quarter (October – December 2023) to ‘establish the National Collections Data Service’ under ‘Horizon One’ of the Data and Information Strategy for Health and Disability: Roadmap 2021-2024?

Hon Dr Shane Reti: I am advised that the Ministry of Health's National Collections team moved to Health New Zealand's Data Services during the October - December 2023 quarter. National collections data sets were subsequently migrated to a modern data platform, and a modernisation programme is being scoped and costed. I am further advised the Data and Information Strategy for Health and Disability was developed by the Ministry of Health and pre-dates the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act and the formation of Health NZ. During the quarter, progress on aspects of the current Strategy and roadmap continued, led by Health New Zealand, and will be reviewed within the context of the New Zealand Health Plan when published in 2024.