It is right about now that the Government will start realising that the worst thing they could have done was to sack Rob Campbell. He’s dropping bombs and they are hitting home.
The agency at the heart of the Government’s health reforms, Te Whatu Ora – Health NZ, is heading towards a massive restructuring, which could cost “many hundreds” of overhead roles.
That is, according to former chair Rob Campbell, who was sacked from the board by Health Minister Ayesha Verrall this week.
Campbell has gone to ground and is not answering phone calls, but in an opinion piece for Newsroom Pro he hit out at “extensive waste” in the health system resulting from the duplication of roles after the former DHBs were merged into Te Whatu Ora.
He said Te Whatu Ora needed to shift to “a much more efficient and modern corporate structure”.
Campbell spoke of a plan to make those changes that had not yet been put into action.
“That is not fully done but the path is set. That now has to be promptly completed and management systems activated around accountable performance targets”.
He said the “plan” would come with “the disestablishment of many hundreds of overhead roles,” which would allow Te Whatu Ora to shift “hundreds of millions of dollars from overhead to front-line expenditure”.
He said the plan was urgently needed.
“There will be future waves of such change but the first big shift must happen now,” Campbell said.
Newsroom reported that Te Whatu Ora rushed to brief staff about the restructure this morning as Campbell’s column went to print.
NZ Herald
He actually has a point on this one. Why has it taken this long? If you close 20 DHBs you no longer need 20 CEOs or 20 CTOs or 20 CFOs or 20 IT systems. There will be massive duplication of positions. But this narrative goes against the Government’s narrative that centralised command and control is the way to go.
Labour, the party of workers is now going to be seen as the party of redundancies. And it won’t be the right ripping their nighties over it. It’s about time.
This is where a Labour Government does what Labour Governments always eventually do and start digging themselves huge holes by attacking their own support base which inevitably results in a party implosion and getting the boot at election time.
As I predicted yesterday Rob Campbell is very well-advised and very savvy. He will keep on dropping bombs, not unlike the Ukrainians dropping bombs from drones down the hatches of Russian tanks.
This is going to be awesome.
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