Helen Parker on boss life in a high-profile health district

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Helen Parker on boss life in a high-profile health district

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Pinnacle Midlands Health Network chief executive Helen Parker: Primary care has absorbed all the demands placed on it and needs replenishing

So you’ve taken charge of one of the country’s largest PHOs but are also lumped with its challenges – including fixing the relationship with its largest DHB, Waikato. What now? Simon Maude finds out from Helen Parker

“Let’s not talk, let’s do something, we can now cut the crap,” Helen Parker says in her Midlands accent. Not in her Birmingham one, but the tone sh