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Ian Powell: How ‘High Performance High Engagement’ became a costly house of cards in health sector

Ian Powell: How ‘High Performance High Engagement’ became a costly house of cards in health sector

The experience of trying to implement ‘high performance high engagement’ (branded as HPHE) in the 20 district health boards is an unfortunate example of zealotry flavoured with a dose of duplicity leading to poor policy-making at the taxpayers’ expense.  But for the intervention of pragmatism it could have been worse.  It is a case study …

Geoffrey Miller: Union head says government departments failing to protect workers

Geoffrey Miller: Union head says government departments failing to protect workers

By Geoffrey Miller The National Secretary of the Unite union, Gerard Hehir, says government departments are failing to ensure low-paid hotel cleaners are given personal protective equipment while the hotels are housing returning New Zealanders in quarantine. Hehir gave the Democracy Project podcast an example of a Christchurch hotel which told its employees that they …