‘I can’t just fire the DHB boards’

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‘I can’t just fire the DHB boards’

Jim Vause 2015

Jim Vause

sheep on the run
It’s a long way from the back paddock to the DHB boardroom

Nelson GP Jim Vause fancies he overheard a conversation in the corridors of power, alluding to the Health and Disability System Review Panel chaired by Heather Simpson

“On the third day of Christmas, “Ms Simpson said to me: “Health’s in a mess, “It’s all too complex, “Just get rid of all the DHBs.”