Health, Ministry—Financial Review

Thursday 6 December 2007 Hansard source (external site)

Blue10. Dr JACKIE BLUE (National) Link to this
to the Chairperson of the Health Committee

When will the 2006-07 financial review of the Ministry of Health be completed?

KedgleySUE KEDGLEY (Chairperson of the Health Committee) Link to this

In the very near future.

BlueDr Jackie Blue Link to this

Will further time be allocated for the Ministry of Health to appear before the committee to explain why it was involved in the plan, as revealed in the newspaper today, to axe 50 doctors from the Capital and Coast District Health Board, which followed a report about 23 serious and sentinel events that occurred there between 2003 and 2005, resulting in the deaths of 16 patients?

KedgleySUE KEDGLEY Link to this

I rather suspect that the committee will want a briefing on this rather extraordinary development, which we learnt about today.

RyallHon Tony Ryall Link to this

I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. The chair of the committee did not address the question one iota at all. The question from Jackie Blue asked whether the Ministry of Health would reappear before the select committee, and the chair did not talk about that.

WilsonMadam SPEAKER Link to this

No, I am sorry, but she did address the question. Given the confines of the ability of chairs to answer these questions, may I observe that they were all done—all of them—very well.

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