Hon ANDREW LITTLE (Minister of Health): The health sector workforce is one of New Zealand's biggest. For example, in 2019, there were approximately 76,000 full-time equivalent employees employed by the 20 DHBs. I'm advised that, as at the year ended 31 March 2021, there are approximately 3,668 full-time equivalent vacancies across all DHBs. I note that this includes corporate vacancies and represents less than 5 percent of the total number of full-time equivalents in 2019. In response to the second part of the member's question, in the short term, all DHBs have active recruitment plans for clinical vacancies. Implementing Care Capacity Demand Management is also a priority for the Government, and we have funded an additional more than 3,000 nurse roles since 2017. In the long term, we are reforming the health system as a single Health NZ organisation, which will allow for national planning for our workforce and allow us to start investing in and building the workforce we need for the future.