Unfortunately, the DHB’s have been assigned to the dust bin of history. Within my lifetime I believe that future politicians will be asking how the hell we got the restructuring of the health services wrong, again. I was challenged last week to acknowledge that the reforms will be just what we need … [Read more...]
In Conclusion 25 May 2021
This week here is an cartoon of the difference between Maori life expectancy and the rest of the population. It’s a sobering graph. … [Read more...]
This Week Tim Moore and Right to Die
This week we will have a talk by my son, Tim, a district palliative care nurse in Melbourne. Tim had shares in our family business but, when we had lost our building and he lost his flat after the earthquakes he decided to move, with many of his extremely creative friends, to Melbourne. There he … [Read more...]
We waited some time before we analysed the Health Reforms
The health reforms were so big it seemed sensible to sit back and wait and collect what different people were saying about them. Firstly, below is a comprehensive response from a CDHB staff member who has been involved in health for decades. I have agreed to keep their name confidential. Here … [Read more...]
RIP DHBs
Last Wednesday, the government announced that they will disestablish the system of District Health Boards (DHBs) in its entirety... This follows on from a report that Heather Simpson prepared for the government in mid-2020; you can read her report (warning – 274 pages!) or a summary of the main … [Read more...]
An outstanding article analysing how the CDHB was undermined by Wellington bureaucracies
Ian Powell has written an extremely well researched article on CDHB. It is published by Victoria Universities “Democracy Project”. It summarises how CDHB has been completely done over by the Ministry of Health and its various sub agencies over the years. Our area has been a victim of incompetent … [Read more...]
Health issues – Fluoridation
Ian Powell has written a glowing article about how effective Dr Verrall has been already with moving the responsibility for fluoridation from Local Authorities to the Director general of Health. After looking closely at the CDHB debacle I now question the effectiveness of the DG of Health, Ashley … [Read more...]
Health Matters
a. Mental health: The more I look at CDHB the more I distrust the advice any Government receives from the Ministry of Health (MOH). The Ministry has an agenda and they work assiduously to get their own way with it come hell or high water. Look what they have done to the CDHB. How many times … [Read more...]
The CDHB Board needs to adjust its mind as reality may be at fault:
Recently the Health Select Committee undertook its review of CDHB. It was fascinating to note that the Chair Sir John Hansen was the only Board member appearing. When the SDHB appeared, there were a number of Board members present as well as the Chair. Democracy in Canterbury seems to take second … [Read more...]
Garry writes 9 March 2021
One thing which makes a Government, or a local council, vulnerable is weak or out of touch advice from officials. On the ground people know when they are being fed a line of rubbish if the officials do not understand how they really feel or act because the advisors are not sufficiently connected to … [Read more...]
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