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The year of flawed relationships
Wednesday 13 December 2017, 12:15 AM
2017 - It was a most perculiar year
Peculiar? Dead right! Take a health sector on tenterhooks over burgeoning DHB deficits, a ministry undergoing radical restructuring, primary care boxing on and general practice pondering its future. Mix in a minister regarded by most as aloof from his portfolio, and you get an odd vibe. Add a shoo-in election that turns into a photo finish amid a hail of promises to spend more, more, more on health, and 2017 has been a very peculiar year
“It’s really not acceptable to have poor relationships, especially when the underlying goal of the DHB system was to work in a collaborative way.”