Tuesday, 13 April 2021, 3:43 pm | All District Health Boards District Health Boards are disappointed that nurses and midwives have dismissed
offers of pay rises between 1 and 11% (over the 27-month term of the agreement) plus
a lump sum payment of $900 without members having voted on the offer. DHB spokesperson . More
Monday, 12 August 2019, 3:57 pm | All District Health Boards
Resident Medical Officers who are members of the NZ Resident Doctors’ Association
have accepted a new pay settlement agreed by their union and District Health Boards. More
Thursday, 2 May 2019, 4:49 pm | All District Health Boards As the five-day strike by Resident Medical Officers draws to an end, DHBs say facilitation
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By June 2020 it had grown to about $180m. Following the resignation of seven senior executive team members in July and August last year, including former chief executive David Meates, Levy spoke publicly about the CDHB management’s failures regarding its budget.
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Dr Lester Levy, centre, has been re-appointed as crown monitor by the Minister of Health Andrew Little. He was first appointed by former Minister David Clark in 2019. “The reality is the finances are in terrible shape,” he told
Stuff at the time. “There has been probably less control over spending than there should have been, and if only someone had got onto this earlier it would be a smaller problem to solve than it is now.”
Dr Alistair Humphrey – the region's Medical Officer of Health – was dismissed in October. Now he's pursuing a personal grievance against the district health board.