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.”
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