Getting rid of the PPP removed a "distraction" but was not the only problem to fix in the rebuild, Mr Powell suggested. The Southern District Health Board had no real say what was built, and Mr Powell said that needed to be rectified. Mr Powell said he hoped to see tweaks in the health funding formula rather than wholesale change. Likely new health minister, Dunedin North MP David Clark, was promising, but an unknown quantity. New Zealand Nurses Organisation Dunedin organiser Lorraine Lobb said the change of government was positive for nursing.

Source: Otago Daily Times October 20, 2017 16:07 UTC