Mega-DHBs and double the trouble with two ‘ministries’: Is this a health-system sitcom?

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Mega-DHBs and double the trouble with two ‘ministries’: Is this a health-system sitcom?

Ian Powell

Ian Powell

Tangled wires, barbed wire
The review panel suggests the Ministry of Health does not have the capability to address lack of cohesion in our health system – so yet another bureaucracy is proposed

OPINION

The Heather Simpson-penned ‘recipe book’ for a new health system leaves Ian Powell doubting it will create the improvements it seeks to make

Universal public health systems have an unavoidable tension between the extent of centralisation and decentralisation of decision-making. This tens