Hon ANDREW LITTLE: Growing our domestic health workforce is an important step for the long term change required in New Zealand to ensure everyone can get the best care where and when they need it. Our domestic workforce pipeline will benefit from, firstly, the expansion of a successful programme that provides $5,000 in funding for everyone non-practising nurse in New Zealand who wants to return to nursing, to help get them re-registered; secondly, a joint project with the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners to increase the number of GPs trained each year to 300 and to get more Māori and Pacific GPs; thirdly, doubling the number of nurse practitioners trained each year from 50 to 100; and, finally, increasing training slots for radiology registrars from 100 a year at the moment to 115 a year from 2024.