Ousted chair of Health NZ Rob Campbell is continuing to defend his actions after being removed from his role by the Health Minister.
"I've received a letter from the minister which responded to a letter from my lawyers, indicating that she has removed me from that position as chair of Te Whatu Ora. I think that's a mistake and an overreaction to the statements I made in a private capacity but nevertheless that's what she's done," he told Checkpoint.
"I think I'm entitled to make comments as a private citizen, which I did in the LinkedIn post.
"And secondly, the suggestion is that I've somehow been offside with the opposition, which given that I spoke to Christopher Luxton earlier today, we discussed the issues. I made an apology to him for any personal offense he had taken, he accepted that apology. We had a very nice discussion about it.
"So I don't believe there's any issue there. I've seen Richard Prebble from the ACT Party saying that he believes I have the right to make statements of this kind."
