Temperatures rising over ailing hospital; Financial leakage outrages
0 Comments | Taranaki Daily News; New Plymouth, New Zealand, Jul 3, 2010 | by Matt RILKOFF
Disgust at the plight of Hawera Hospital has inspired a well- placed business analyst to blow the whistle on what he sees as millions of dollars worth of financial inefficiencies and loss at the deficit-plagued Taranaki District Health Board.
Paul Anwyll left his job as a business analyst at the TDHB’s Management of Information Unit on Wednesday, citing “weak leadership and poor management” as reasons in his letter of resignation.
An experienced auditor, the Englishman said he had identified financial problems and loss but the TDHB had refused to consider his proposal of a test study that could potentially save them millions.
Mr Anwyll, who has a PhD in information management, said a similar spot check on a bandage supply contract at the Auckland District Health Board in 2007 had identified $78 million in over- payments over five years and he had found similar losses at hospital boards in the UK.
His observations at Taranaki Base led him to believe there were many financial losses, including duplicate payments, GST not taken and contract agreements that had not been properly followed
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