More than 1300 district health board staff have been stood down because they were not vaccinated by Monday.
As at 9am today, 1309 unvaccinated staffers in the total DHB workforce of roughly 80,000 had been stood down after not meeting the Government's vaccination mandate, which dictated all DHB staff must have had their first dose by 11.59pm on Monday.
Waikato DHB had the highest number of staff stood down, with 154, followed by Bay of Plenty (123) and Counties Manukau (119).
However, the DHBs with the highest proportion of unvaccinated staff stood down were Northland, Taranaki, Nelson-Marlborough and West Coast - all on 4 per cent.
Respectively, the four DHB had stood down 105, 54, 110 and 10 staff.
The overwhelming majority of stood-down staff - where their employment was named - were nurses at 463.
A total of 723 staff had been defined as "other" - which applied to staff of a particular role of which less than three staff had been stood down, in an effort to protect their privacy.
The remainder of the defined roles for unvaccinated staff included senior medical officers, midwives and registered medical officers.
DHBs spokeswoman Rosemary Clements said DHBs were consulting with unvaccinated staff who had been stood down to answer any questions they might have, discuss other options such as redeployment, support them through the process and encourage them to consider vaccination.
If staff chose to be vaccinated while they were stood down, they would be able to return to work.
"We have engaged and agreed with the health sector unions on the processes we are following."
She said service delivery impacts would vary between DHBs and mitigations were in place where needed to minimise any impact to services.
"Our absolute focus is on ensuring continuity of patient care."
An update on how many staff would be leaving DHBs due to their unvaccinated status would be provided next week.
Full breakdown
Northland:
Total: 105
Nurses: 37
Senior medical officers: 3
Midwives: 8
Other: 57
Proportion of staff: 4 per cent
Waitematā:
Total: 96
Nurses: 22
Senior medical officers: 4
Registered medical officers: 11
Midwives: 6
Other: 53
Proportion of staff: 2 per cent
Auckland:
Total: 68
Nurses: 20
Senior medical officers: 3
Other: 45
Proportion of staff: 1 per cent
Counties Manukau:
Total: 119
Nurses: 47
Doctors: 4
Midwives: 10
Other: 58
Proportion of staff: 2 per cent
Waikato:
Total: 154
Nurses: 65
Senior medical officers: 6
Registered medical officers: 3
Midwives: 10
Other: 70
Proportion of staff: 2 per cent
Bay of Plenty:
Total: 123
Nurses: 42
Senior medical officers: 4
Midwives: 6
Other: 71
Proportion of staff: 3 per cent
Lakes:
Total: 42
Nurses: 23
Midwives: 4
Other: 15
Proportion of staff: 2 per cent
Tairāwhiti:
Total: 23
Nurses: 10
Other: 13
Proportion of staff: 0 per cent (this is being checked)
Taranaki:
Total: 54
Nurses: 20
Midwives: 3
Other: 31
Proportion of staff: 4 per cent
Hawke's Bay:
Total: 51
Nurses: 17
Other: 34
Proportion of staff: 2 per cent
Whanganui:
Total: 30
Nurses: 9
Other: 21
Proportion of staff: 3 per cent
MidCentral:
Total: 43
Nurses: 14
Midwives: 3
Other: 26
Proportion of staff: 2 per cent
Wairarapa:
Total: 6
Nurses: 4
Other: 2
Proportion of staff: 2 per cent
Capital & Coast:
Total: 84
Nurses: 34
Midwives: 8
Other: 42
Proportion of staff: 2 per cent
Hutt Valley:
Total: 36
Nurses: 11
Registered medical officers: 4
Midwives: 3
Other: 18
Proportion of staff: 2 per cent
Nelson/Marlborough:
Total: 110
Nurses: 33
Other: 77
Proportion of staff: 4 per cent
Canterbury:
Total: 79
Nurses: 23
Doctors: 4
Other: 52
Proportion of staff: 2 per cent
West Coast:
Total: 10
Nurses: 4
Other: 6
Proportion of staff: 4 per cent
South Canterbury
Total: 7
Other: 7
Proportion of staff: 1 per cent
Southern:
Total: 69
Nurses: 28
Senior medical officers: 4
Registered medical officers: 6
Midwives: 6
Other: 25
Proportion of staff: 2 per cent
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