February 28, 2009
We probably all agree that trust is a fundamental “glue” of positive interpersonal relations. Trust also enables the “social compact” between ourselves and those we select and empower to govern us. And all the elements of trust – honesty, transparency, good intention, dependability – apply to both situations. As a relatively recent transplant to New [...]
February 28, 2009
The windows of Tracee Te Huia’s office at the Hawkes Bay District Health Board offices are almost obliterated by masses of post-it notes. There are hundreds of them and their careful layout outlines a change in the delivery of M?ori healthcare in the Bay. The notes represent 240 contracts let to accredited healthcare providers to [...]
February 28, 2009
Grey Power is a lobby group for people over 50 years of age. We speak up for pensioners, but the group between 50 and 65 are hardest hit in many ways – being made redundant, out of work, finding it hard to become re-employed, with often a mortgage and childrens’ education costs to meet, as [...]
February 28, 2009
Last month saw both the reinstatement of the elected Hawke’s Bay District Health Board that had been dismissed under the previous government, and the resignation of Chris Clarke as CEO. Turbulent times! And they aren’t confined to this region. All the country’s DHBs are on a roller-coaster ride. The Waitemata DHB Chair resigned earlier in [...]
February 28, 2009
The lawsuit brought by area councils against then-Health Minister Cunliffe on behalf of the sacked DHB Board members generated voluminous affidavits and supporting exhibits (letters, reports, press releases, emails, etc). We have posted the most illuminating of these documents on the BayBuzz website at www.baybuzz.co.nz/issues/dhb There you can find affidavits and evidence of the key [...]
February 28, 2009
I’ve slogged through the voluminous affidavits and exhibits generated by the legal action brought against former Health Minister David Cunliffe by the five councils of the region on behalf of the sacked HB District Health Board. As you know, the new Minister, Tony Ryall, reinstated the “sacked seven,” adding them to a Governance Board chaired [...]
February 28, 2009
On February 18, the reconstituted “Governance Board” of the Hawke’s Bay DHB held its first meeting. The session was brief and uneventful … all the players were on their best behaviour. What might have added tension was defused by the non-attendance of Chief Executive Chris Clarke, who had announced his resignation days earlier. So now [...]
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