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Bring back the Health Funding Authority – PHO chiefs’ prescription for success

Martin
Johnston
Hefford and Parker restructuring plan
The health system structure proposed by PHO chief executives Martin Hefford and Helen Parker

Ahead of the Heather Simpson-led review’s release, a flurry of papers positioning primary healthcare fluttered into New Zealand Doctor. Journalist Martin Johnston looks at three papers – from the RNZCGP, two PHO chiefs and the primary care federation – which all seek major change

All 20 DHBs would disappear and health funding would revert to a central government authority, under a radical plan pitched by two primary health chie