from Radio NZ
Health New Zealand’s embattled chief executive Fepulea’i Margie Apa has resigned — four months ahead of her contract coming to an end — in a “mutual agreement” with the health commissioner.
In a statement released by the agency just before 9am, she said it was “time to hand the baton on”.
She said Health NZ was at the point in its reset where a different leadership approach was required.
“Although my term formally ends in June, Health New Zealand is at a point in the reset where a different leadership approach is required to take us forward, and I would like to make space for that now,” Apa said.
Apa took on the role in February 2022 as interim chief executive and then, from 1 July 2022, for a fixed term to oversee the shift from multiple district health boards to one organisation.
“I believe that working together collaboratively to join up and improve the care New Zealanders experience is an ambition worth working for. All of us can make so much more of a difference if we can work together better.
“I am pleased to have played a part in that shift. There is progress we have made – we are delivering more care than before to more people both in our hospitals and in our community and primary care sector.
Health New Zealand Commissioner Lester Levy said they “mutually agreed on the decision” and thanked her for her service.
Everyone knows Ms Apa was one of many ‘diversity hires’ by the Jacinda regime, and doing that has two big downsides:
1. An incompetent person is almost inevitably going to Stuff things up, which there are numerous examples of, both in NZ and overseas;
2. A high profile ‘diversity hire’ who Stuffs things up is going to create a bad impression of all people in that minority ethnic group and is a big disservice to all of its members.
We now wait to see how much of the taxpayers money this debacle has cost us. Hopefully this means an end to race based health care and we may even be able to read the health web site in Queens/Kings English
She is handing the baton on? What a joke just like The Colgate Queen departure. Apa has completely dismantled and radicalised the NZ Health service by introducing racialism into the health sector.