The Executive Director of the country’s leading primary health and community care organisation, the Federation of Primary Health Aotearoa NZ (FPHANZ) , says a meeting with the head of Te Whatu Ora, Margie Apa, on Friday comes at a critical time in .
Monday, 8 February 2021, 4:33 pm
“The locality networks concept as outlined in the
Federations Discussion Paper, May 2020, can greatly improve
health care for all New Zealanders”, says Hon. Steve
Chadwick, Chair of the Federation of Primary Health
Aotearoa.
“The Federation has embraced
the concept of “locality networks” because they have the
capacity to provide better and more equitable health
services for New Zealanders,” said Chadwick. Local
leadership, generating local solutions for local issues, is
the fundamental premise of this
concept.
Chadwick also said that Jennifer
Pelvin has been appointed acting chief executive of the
Federation, which is the largest primary health membership