The new commissioner of Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand says there will be more job cuts to backroom staff, as the organisation tries to downsize.<\/p>\n
Professor Lester Levy<\/a>\u00a0has been brought in as a\u00a0commissioner to replace the board<\/a>\u00a0of Te Whatu Ora.<\/p>\n Health Minister Shane Reti had said Levy’s appointment was a response to serious concerns about oversight, overspend, and a significant deterioration in financial outlook, with Health NZ now spending $130 million a month over its budget – heading towards a $1.3b deficit by the end of the financial year.<\/p>\n rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The new commissioner of Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand says there will be more job cuts to backroom staff, as the organisation tries to downsize. Professor Lester Levy\u00a0has been brought in as a\u00a0commissioner to replace the board\u00a0of Te Whatu Ora. Health Minister Shane Reti had said Levy’s appointment was a response to serious […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10775,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10773\/revisions\/10775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}