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...]
An analysis of Lester Levy’s performance in health
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...]
CDHB 2 March 2021
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...]
FEB 2021 CDHB reflection
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...]
CDHB Feb 2021 and Ernst Young
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...]
How can we be flexible toward Covid 19 MIQ’s at the border
On Friday there was a fantastic Podcast by Sharon Brett-Kelly on Newsroom and RNZ. This fine piece of journalism highlighted the advice given to the Government by Rodney Jones, an analyst based in Asia, until the pandemic. He advised the Government early on about how dangerous the virus appeared to … [Read more...]
CDHB 15 Dec 2020
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...]
More on CDHB 8 Dec 2020
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...]
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