12 Oct 2020

Election 2020: DHB deficits still out of control

From Morning Report, 8:22 am on 12 October 2020

Labour has failed to get DHB deficits under control this term despite going hard on underfunding when in opposition.

At the moment 19 of the 20 DHBs are in the red but the problem of health boards spend more than their budgets has been around for almost fifteen years.

As part of RNZ's election 2020 coverage, health correspondent Rowan Quinn looks at whether anything has changed in the past three years and the debate now over health funding.