Health New Zealand’s new strategy to “fail early, fail often, succeed over time” when it comes to crucial data and digital operations has been labelled “unacceptable” by a union.
Te Whatu Ora has proposed to cut almost half its data and digital positions - more than 1000 of them.
PSA assistant secretary Fleur Fitzsimons said New Zealanders would not accept that Health NZ could ever fail early when it came to health records.
“The stakes are too high. I think it’s quite shocking.”
But the feedback leaked to RNZ displayed a lot of fear and consternation. Staff had got letters about the proposed jobs being cut.
“My letter has the wrong job title and I am not even from that team,” responded one.
I thought the “fail often fail early” part was satirical editorializing. Horrified to see that it’s their actual policy.
How incredibly dystopian.