I have also written to Catherine Chu to express my disappointment that she has either shown at best inexperience and naivety, at worst directly colluded with Hansen, Huria and Levy to prioritise rapid deficit reduction over delivery of health to cantabrians.
However it may pay to analyse Tracy McLennans answer also because
A labour health minister installed Lester Levy
A labour health minister replaced John wood and Mark Solomon in the middle of the reconciliation process with John Hansen (who has stated his primary responsibility is to the shareholder) and Gabriella Huria.
A labour health minister gave the directive for all DHB’s to be zero deficit in 2 years (irrespective of size or cause, and irrespective of whether there was a pre-existing management plan)
Levy, Hansen and the new board (aside from Kane, Dickerson and Marshall) have followed the instructions of both labour health ministers who have continued to express confidence in the board (as has the prime minister) throughout this crisis.
The refusal of the board chair, health minister, a (fairweather friend) prime minister and local labour MP’s to front the media on this speaks for itself. The Labour health minister is still yet to visit chch to speak to the management or staff regards their concerns.
Both major parties have their sticky fingers in this but at least Chu is doing what we would expect a National party candidate to do regarding prioritising deficit reduction - whether the actions of the labour health ministers, local MP's or prime minister with regard to CDHB are what we expect or deserve from this party is very questionable
I have also written to Catherine Chu to express my disappointment that she has either shown at best inexperience and naivety, at worst directly colluded with Hansen, Huria and Levy to prioritise rapid deficit reduction over delivery of health to cantabrians.
However it may pay to analyse Tracy McLennans answer also because
A labour health minister installed Lester Levy
A labour health minister replaced John wood and Mark Solomon in the middle of the reconciliation process with John Hansen (who has stated his primary responsibility is to the shareholder) and Gabriella Huria.
A labour health minister gave the directive for all DHB’s to be zero deficit in 2 years (irrespective of size or cause, and irrespective of whether there was a pre-existing management plan)
Levy, Hansen and the new board (aside from Kane, Dickerson and Marshall) have followed the instructions of both labour health ministers who have continued to express confidence in the board (as has the prime minister) throughout this crisis.
The refusal of the board chair, health minister, a (fairweather friend) prime minister and local labour MP’s to front the media on this speaks for itself. The Labour health minister is still yet to visit chch to speak to the management or staff regards their concerns.
Both major parties have their sticky fingers in this but at least Chu is doing what we would expect a National party candidate to do regarding prioritising deficit reduction - whether the actions of the labour health ministers, local MP's or prime minister with regard to CDHB are what we expect or deserve from this party is very questionable