Unveiling the Newest Plan to Guide New Zealand from Welfare towards Education Success
The new NZ leader has made a fresh commitment to achieving goals.
Newly elected New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is enthusiastic about creating lists. He has outlined a plan of 49 reforms for the first 100 days of his administration.
Having accomplished most of them, primarily due to passing more laws under urgency than any previous MMP government, Luxon’s government is progressing swiftly. Many of the reforms involved repealing Labour-established legislation, making the process relatively fast and requiring minimal parliamentary debate.
On April 8, Luxon announced nine new “targets” aimed at “getting New Zealand back on track.” The government has set a longer deadline to achieve these objectives, with a completion date of 2030.
1. Shorter Stays in Emergency Departments
The goal is to have 95 percent of patients admitted, discharged, or transferred from an emergency department within six hours.
There is no specific target for patient wait times to be seen, but presumably less than six hours.
Previously, the Labour government set a six-hour target for this metric but stopped publishing results. In a report from 2023, it was revealed that 36 percent of patients at a busy hospital in Auckland had not seen a doctor after six hours, let alone been admitted or discharged.
2. Shorter Wait Times for Elective Treatment
The objective is to have 95 percent of people waiting less than four months for elective treatment.
