Hon ANDREW LITTLE (Minister of Health): I'm advised that, as at the year ending 31 March 2021, there are approximately 3,387 fulltime-equivalent vacancies across all district health boards (DHBs). I note that this includes corporate vacancies and represents 5.1 percent of the total number of fulltime-equivalent positions in 2019. In response to the second part of the member's question, I'm advised that, as at the year ending 31 March 2021, there are approximately 1,168 fulltime-equivalent vacancies for nurses. I note that the figures that I have used today exclude the Waikato DHB. That DHB has recently advised that numbers that it previously supplied, which I had reported to the House on, had discrepancies that they are now working to resolve. In the long term, we are reforming the health system as a single Health New Zealand organisation that will allow for true national planning of our workforce and allow us to start investing in and building the workforce we need for the future.