Clark resigns as HBDHB CEO

NZPA report that Chris Clarke has resigned as CEO of the Hawke’s Bay District Health Board.

I think this was inevitable and necessary. The inquiry into the DHB highlighted a number of inappropriate actions by Clarke, and he didn’t have the confidence of his Board.

The last straw may have been his plans to speak at a conference about how to deal with conflict in a board room. He claimed he never agreed to speak and it was a mistake. However the agenda actually listed not just him, but how his presentation would ahve four parts to it – what happened, why it happened, what a CEO can learn from it and Why it is working so much better now.

His agreement to do this, without even the knowledge of the Board Commissioner, is another example of flawed judgement.