Last week I commented on the CDHB gloating about the MOH and the minister approving the latest CDHB budget. From a senior person from within the DHB I received this: It is galling to have the Chair of CDHB say “it is the first plan to be approved by the ministers of health and finance in four … [Read more...]

While I am writing about PR spin, I found it entertaining this week when the CDHB announced that they had received approval from the Ministry of Health and the Minister of Health for their latest budget. Here’s what was reported in the Press: Canterbury District Health Board’s … [Read more...]

On September 24, 2021, Ian Powell produced an article labelled “Reputations in tatters”. We are reprinting it here as it substantiates the comments which we, and a host of others, have made over the past year before, and after, the … [Read more...]

1. DHB New Structures Ian Powell wrote this week: In the middle of a pandemic, the government is dismantling its structures (DHBs) responsible for ensuring the provision of hospital and community health services. Destabilising a system in a pandemic is madness. It is close to criminally … [Read more...]

The data which we produced in the last Tuesday Club notes about the miserable failure of CDHB’s Board of containing costs produced some interesting responses this … [Read more...]

Last week I wrote that I was looking forward to viewing the financial results of the CDHB. Well, this week their results went up on their website. These are the results from an executive team appointed by the Board. This is the team the Board chair said, “had the experience we felt were needed”. … [Read more...]

With the CDHB financial year finishing on 30 June 2021, we at the Tuesday Club are waiting with breath-holding-anticipation to see how the DHB actually performed against budget. As previously covered, the Board / Crown monitor reluctantly supported the proposed budget put forward by the then … [Read more...]

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...]

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...]

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...]