Concern South Canterbury may miss out with abolition of DHBs
John Bisset/Stuff Former South Canterbury District chairman Murray Cleverley is surprised the Government is disestablishing all the district health boards. (File photo) Cleverley, who said other centralised services such as Police worked quite well, was concerned smaller areas such as South Canterbury would become the poor relation as the budget would gravitate to the largest areas. “Over the last 20 years the SCDHB has been effective and efficient, it stayed in the black and has amazing staff ... it’s a slap to them to be disestablished.” Under the new model he thought it would har...