Health New Zealand Rob Campbell: Restructuring is not an easy task, reform takes time - Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive

Defensive attitudes in the health system may risk slowing down reforms.

The chair of the nation's new centralised service - Health New Zealand - has described the sector has being more dysfunctional than expected.

Rob Campbell says all of the now former District Health Board operated differently with varied outcomes, making it hard to compile information.

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