Health service cuts are on the cards as the MidCentral District Health Board plummets toward a $13.3 million deficit by the end of June. He said district health boards were under enormous pressure from the Crown. MURRAY WILSON/STUFF MidCentral District Health Board deputy chairman Brendan Duffy predicts tough times for health will get tougher. He suggested the example of a $90,000 cut to Te Ha o Hine-ahu-one, the Palmerston North Women's Health Collective, could be an indication of more community-based health services cuts to come. MURRAY WILSON/STUFF Junior doctors' strikes are being blamed for more than $2.8 million of losses at MidCentral Health.

Source: Stuff May 21, 2019 04:07 UTC