Last weekend Mark commented very forcefully on Q & A about how shifty he found MOH and Treasury to be when he was acting Chair of the CDHB. His views were held so strongly the Government were not prepared to re-appoint him to the Board. Mark supported the position of the executive led by … [Read more...]
Ian Powell’s latest article
Business desk has published an excellent article by Ian Powell yesterday on the health reforms. Under the headline Why it's risky to get rid of DHBs the article included: There are two ways to make sustainable, transformational changes in universal public health systems – structural change or … [Read more...]
Nurses dispute analysis by Ian Powell
This week the following column on the nurse’s dispute was written by Ian Powell. I share his thoughts on Andrew Little who I think is a good man. Here is the article: Arguably Minister of Health Andrew Little is the MP in the New Zealand Parliament with the greatest experience and knowledge … [Read more...]
It’s near the end of the CDHB’s financial year
In March Sir John Hansen appeared before Parliament’s Health Select Committee and he was reported by Stuff as saying: The resignations of seven senior Canterbury health board managers within six weeks may have helped the woeful financial position of the region's health system, the board’s chair … [Read more...]
Last Week Philip Aldridge and Emerging Health Tech Hub
We had a wonderful address by that master of the understatement (it must be the water in the UK) Philip Aldridge about the Arts Centre. If the CCC does the right thing in the LTP decision making and allocates funding for the Arts Centre then the administration and Board can focus on a wonderful long … [Read more...]
CDHB becomes international
Isn’t it interesting that the Ministry of Health, and its Ministerial puppets, have destroyed the local DHB because they hated being shown to be wrong? In the UK there is an organisation called the “Kings Fund”. They were pretty impressed with the way the CDHB was being run some years ago. … [Read more...]
Karen Guilliland interview on midwifery
One of my big heroes is Karen Guilliland. We have been friends ever since we both ended up on the Area Health Board about 100 years ago. Karen has been a tireless advocate for midwifery for decades now and she and Helen Clark joined forces to get legislation passed to protect the role of Midwives in … [Read more...]
This week Philip Aldridge, Arts Centre
In early April I wrote about the speech Paul Callaghan gave 10 years ago which lay down a challenge for the country to accommodate new approaches to facilitate reform in society. Callaghan said “To solve the massive crises facing us, we must be innovative — we must use collaborative, … [Read more...]
A history lesson on Health
Most of us watch from the side lines about what is happening in health. Unless you are on a Board, or work in health, the only thing you think about is can I get attention when I turn up at A & E? In his latest missive Ian Powell has written about Gaius Petronius style change with health … [Read more...]
Last Week Tim Moore
As a parent you don’t get to view a side to your kid that you don’t know much about very often. As a sat and listened to our son Tim speak about the difficult topic of the “Right-to-life” legislation and its implementation I was impressed by his professionalism. This topic is about as hard as they … [Read more...]
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