Working on it: Angling for best pre-reform position

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Working on it: Angling for best pre-reform position

Kate Baddock
NZMA chair Kate Baddock says the association will work with the Government on the next stages of the health reforms

Many of the country’s more than 220,000 health and disability sector employees just had their world turned upside down. Simon Maude talks with doctors’ associations about the impacts of the newly announced abolition of DHBs and their replacement with a new agency

What we know..., On 1 July 2022, all DHBs will be dissolved, and all their 75,000 staff will transfer to Health New Zealand on existing terms and conditions. Befor