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...]
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...]
The CDHB has been short changed again:
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...]
CDHB
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...]
CDHB series of articles:
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...]
CDHB 3 November
1. Government Departments mis-managing building programmes: We have written about how the Ministry of Health has completely mismanaged the building of new buildings at CDHB. If you think this is unusual then read this article. It’s about how the Ministry of Education has then same level of … [Read more...]
CDHB
The more I spend time looking at the CDHB figures, and talk to key people, the more I reckon we have witnessed a massive systemic failure by Government Departments. I have a natural unease about how Government Departments work anyway, but looking deeply into how decisions were made about CDHB, and … [Read more...]
The decision making at CDHB behind the scenes:
It is obvious that the Crown Monitor, and the Chair of CDHB, have been given a task to perform. The OIA referred to is the start of the process is in order that I can prove a hunch about this description of their task. The Crown Monitor and the Chair appear to have complied with whatever their … [Read more...]