Recently the Minister of Health re-appointed Lester Levy as Crown Monitor. Here is an extract from the letter of appointment to Levy: Dr Michael Gousmett has researched Lester Levy for a group of health professionals. He has written the article below summarising Levy’s previous history with … [Read more...]

I’m always disappointed when a person I respect hugely, Andrew Little, continues to be advised badly on issues like the Crown Monitor, by MOH. This week he announced the re-appointment of Lester Levy to the position of Crown Monitor. In the article below you will see in the video the Minister … [Read more...]

One of the great organisations in our City responding superbly to the earthquakes was CDHB. The staff met the challenges head on. They were there in spades when they were needed. I’m not saying they were always perfect. Which Institution is? However, what did the loyal and hardworking staff gain … [Read more...]

Sooner or later the truth was going to emerge about the CDHB. You don’t lose 7 out of 11 of a top performing Executive Management team without the truth of just what happened finally emerging. Even with the pathetic manner in which the Ministry of Health (MOH) replies to Official Information Act … [Read more...]

The financial cuts promoted by Lester Levy are proven to be wrong: Just this week we had this article in the Press https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/123633262/drastic-savings-plan-proposed-for-canterbury-health-board-now-in-doubt reporting that CDHB Board, having hammered the old … [Read more...]

a) Politicians need to check out the facts about CDHB: Over this last week I was surprised to again have it reported to me that a local politician had stated to somebody (it’s a small-town people, it came straight back) that the previous CDHB Executive had not done what the Ministry Commissioned … [Read more...]

I have a lot of time for Andrew Little. He is a man of absolute integrity. But he does need to be very careful about the quality of advice that he is receiving, and who he is listening to, in relation to CDHB. The announcement on Friday that $154m capital has been approved for a partially … [Read more...]

We have found lots of errors made as we analysed the CDHB. This time by both EY and the Crown Monitor. Here is a response to the document produced by EY to the Board: EY Report Analysis  Analytical and Interpretative Errors The EY Report provided to QFARC, comments and presentations to … [Read more...]

Article from the UK on what the CDHB was when he visited in February: I was interested to read this article by a top UK health specialist. He visited the CDHB before the Board and MOH started to pull apart what we had, and what he recognised was working so well. Remember how the Crown Monitor and … [Read more...]