5:23 pm today

Health NZ CEO Margie Apa resigns

From Checkpoint, 5:23 pm today

Health NZ has launched a global search for a new chief executive to lead the embattled agency with the sudden resignation today of founding CEO Fepulea'i Margie Apa. However, frontline health workers are skeptical that installing new leadership can make any difference at all to a system that's grappling with massive workforce shortages, spiralling deficits and industrial unrest - not forgetting suffering patients struggling to get help. Ruth Hill reports.