Kia ora koutou,
Our Workforce Planning and Development team are pleased to to confirm the Voluntary Bonding Scheme (the Scheme) categories for the 2025 intake.
All relevant Colleges, Councils and Boards have received direct comms on the 21st November 2025 to pass on to their members, pending and recent graduates.
Attached is some key and supporting messages.
The focus is on primary and community healthcare specialties and settings for graduate (2024) Registered Nurses, newly qualified (2024) Nurse Practitioners (included for the first time) and graduate (2022-2024) Pharmacists. In addition, most 2024 categories have also been renewed.
Primary and community healthcare specialties and settings include:
- Newly qualified (2024) Nurse Practitioners and graduate (2024) Registered Nurses working in primary and community healthcare settings nationwide such as GP clinics, aged residential care, homecare nursing, Hauora M?ori and Pacific primary care providers.
- Graduate (2022-2024) Pharmacists working in pharmacies and primary care practices in rural and regional community settings.
- General Practice trainees working in targeted rural and regional communities (renewed from 2024).
The 2025 intake also renews the 2024 categories for:
- Graduate (2022-2024) Dentists and Oral Health Therapists in targeted communities
- Graduate (2024) Health NZ employed Anaesthetic Technicians, Radiation Therapists, Medical Physicists, and Sonographers
- Graduate (2024) Midwives in any New Zealand setting.
Registration of Interest ? From 21 November 2025
We are planning a four-week registration of interest period (ROI) to open from 21 November 2025 via the Health NZ website.
Registrations for the 2025 intake will be invited from eligible people who completed educational qualifications to 31 December 2024. Registrants will be advised in 2026 if they have been accepted or not.
?Further information on ROI for those who graduate in 2025, and categories will be provided in early 2026.
For more information about the Scheme, categories and eligibility please visit the Health NZ website.
Ng? mihi,
Kiley Clark (she/her)
Interim National Chief Midwife
Office of the Chief Clinical Officer
Waea p?koro: +64 274125835 | ?m?ra:
kiley.clark@tewhatuora.govt.nz
398 Omahu rd, Camberley
Hastings, 4120