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Hospitals in the Wellington region are waiting up to six months for Health NZ to give them approval to even begin recruitment for front-line roles.
Data obtained by the Public Service Association under the Official Information Act (for March to May) shows 219 recruitment requests took more than two months to be approved, 91 waited more than 20 weeks, and 45 roles applied for in March were still vacant last month.
In some cases, it took up to
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