STACY SQUIRES
Andrew Little last year approved $154 million of Government funding to add a new tower block with 64 more beds to Christchurch Hospital’s $525m acute services building, Waipapa. (Video first published November 2020).
Canterbury Charity Hospital founder Phil Bagshaw has welcomed the Government’s plan to overhaul the health system as “aspirationally correct” – but warns the Ministry of Health needs reforming too.
Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) chairman Sir John Hansen and Māori health providers have welcomed the plan to replace DHBs with a central agency.
Bagshaw, who was both an appointed and elected member of the CDHB from 2000 to 20004, said he thinks of the period as “the wasted years” in an undemocratic bureaucracy.