Someone else whispers “joined up IT systems”, and a hush falls over the room

So. Farewell then, the DHB way of doing things. 

And nau mai, haere mai, to a new health system, centralised once more and perhaps once more putting the Minister of Health back in the gun whenever something goes wrong. 

Will there ever be a day when something will not be going wrong in Health? Unlikely. Even the perfect system would disappoint; health care is forever beset by precarity and scarcity and uncertainty, never enough billions to do all we want.