Requesting confirmation that NZ Health Partnerships Ltd is the ‘Insurer’ driving the decision by Waikato DHB to request the reopening of the Nicky Stevens Coronial Inquiry and the replacement of the Coroner

1. “2/. Can you also confirm that the Waikato DHB is in fact a part-owner/controller of NZ Health Partnerships Ltd, which is defined as a “multi-parent Crown subsidiary under the Crown Entities Act 2004?

   3/. Can you confirm that Waikato DHB was in essence being ‘instructed’ by an insurance company that it owned, in part, and had influence over?”

   Those two statements/questions, if proven in the affirmative, would be grounds for a full Inquiry.

   If this isn’t a mis-use of bureaucratic power, I don’t know what is. This is apalling!!

   • Mjolnir I know what this is – if true – it is conflict of interest and corruption.

     I am rarely angry, but this is totally shocking – as is having to ponder whether wimp David Clark MP will show any outrage, or whether he has to be nice and kind per his party’s pious verbal manifestos.

     Labour’s ‘niceness and kindness – self-serving flummery.

     Peter’s “Choina” Parliamentary retort to Simon Bridges was a cheap shot and inappropriate, as was the PM’s laughing about it. At least Bill English kept his head well down when Key hooned around like a guttersnipe in Parliament.

     The Nat’s barbecue sausage ad has served as a brilliant cat-on-the table tactic this week absorbing so much time from the righteously indignant, while meanwhile, families like Nicky Steven’s family are living real lives of quiet pain and suffering inflicted on them by grubby others.

2. “They’ll never find out! The general public are too stupid and lazy to bother doing anything other than scratching the surface on something like this! And anyway, it’s only one mental health patient. God knows the country’s crawling with them. We’ll be fine, mate. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more.”

   This is the level of abject bastardry we’re dealing with on an almost daily basis in this country now. Fucking suit-wearing cockroaches.

   • You have got it! See my comment below for some more details!

3. Here a link to that insurer:

   http://www.nzhealthpartnerships.co.nz/executive-leadership-team/

   I am not sure, but Des Gorman, also known for past controversy, he may have been holding a senior position in that organisation also. That is unless I confuse this insurer with another health professional insurer.

   • Really strange that ‘NZ Health Partnerships’ seem to be an ‘insurer’ of sorts, besides of their other wide reaching responsibilities.

     This is the insurer of medical professionals I had heard of before, and in which Auckland Uni lecturer, former ACC advisor, Des Gorman once played a senior role:
     https://www.medicalprotection.org/newzealand/home

     Here is more on Des Gordon, in an interesting article in the ODT from some years ago:
     https://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/independence-commissioner-paramount

     ” Of particular concern is Prof Gorman’s involvement given his position on the MPS New Zealand panel at the time. The primary aim of the MPS is to protect and safeguard the professional reputations of individual members and the professions to which they belong, by assisting doctors with specific problems that arise from their clinical practice and lobbying for doctors’ interests in the regulatory environment. In the New Zealand context, this includes doctors who have a complaint to the HDC against them.”

     Whatever is happening in this matter raised in the blog post, it is one of greatest concern!

     You can have all kinds of ‘reviews’ the government commissioned, but it is hard to hold medical professionals of whatever qualification to account, the HDC and the law empowering him, that is one of the major issues. Nothing much goes anywhere with the setup we have.

     https://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.wordpress.com/2016/03/28/how-the-hdc-throws-out-valid-complaints-and-protects-code-breaching-health-professionals-a-true-story/

     https://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.wordpress.com/2015/10/04/how-the-n-z-health-and-disability-commissioner-let-off-a-biased-designated-doctor/

     https://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.wordpress.com/2017/11/21/how-the-new-zealand-ombudsman-effectively-provides-cover-for-the-hdc-an-information-request-complaint-case/

     https://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/how-the-n-z-ombudsman-effectively-provides-cover-for-the-hdc-report-post-28-11-17.pdf

     https://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.wordpress.com/2016/07/24/the-new-zealand-ombudsman-fairness-for-all-an-empty-slogan-for-some/

     Most people reading here, and in general, would not have a shit clue of what really goes on in this country of professional white washers and BS artists. It is near impossible to hold medical professionals to account these days, only in very rare cases do things lead to professional conduct reviews and/or hearings.

     That is where New Zealand is a laughing stock, you cannot sue anyone anymore, due to the ACC Act and HDC Act and so forth.

     • Marc one of the main reasons NZ has never had a traditional of medical litigation as in, for example, the USA, is because of the historic near-impossibility of getting NZ medical professionals to testify against each other in court. They are better than the Mafia at protecting each other. It’s probably fair to say that some other professionals also buy into this ‘protective’ process fairly consciously.

       Back in the 80’s, I think, a rare case brought against a Palmerston Nth obstetrician-gynecologist was successful (acc to my med husband) only because the prosecution got a well regarded Australian peer to come here and testify when no NZ medical expert would.

       We seem to have more off-shore involvement in such issues now, and I may not be the best person to say that we still have to be constantly vigilant.

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