Peter Davis criticizes Labour for ditching health targets

Peter Davis writes to Newsroom:

Second, there will be a drastic reduction in accountability and transparency. For some reason that still puzzles me, the incoming Labour government more or less got rid of the public reporting of health sector performance metrics. I have always felt that was the saving grace of public-sector organisations –transparency, efficiency, and accountability. We should have a dashboard now as a public and viewable facility, and it should be extended to primary care as we will be losing the stats provided by PHOs.

So Peter Davis (a former DHB member) points out the health reforms will reduce accountability and transparency and laments Labour scrapping the health targets and metrics. I agree with him we should have these as a dashboard.