“An internal funding case will be developed to identify future funding options for the centre,” Health NZ told the senior doctors’ union, the ASMS, in the OIA, in December. Unions on Friday blamed the 12-hour failure at hospitals across Auckland and Northland on the staff cuts, but Health NZ rejected that. It said that critical clinical apps would be moved out of old, at-risk servers in individual hospitals to the “cloud” in a “secure, modern national data centre”. Asked by RNZ about funding, Brown did not mention it. The centre’s funding is from a Vote Health appropriation for “enabling health system transformation”.
