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Pete Hodgson

Reporter · NZ

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Aug 17, 2026
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Aug 16, 2026
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  1. Article · Aug 17, 2026 · Pete Hodgson

    Hopeless governance and official incompetence: Inside the Dunedin Hospital build (opens the original)

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    The new Outpatient building opens later this month, several years behind schedule. Why the delay? Several factors conspired. A hopeless governance structure tops the list. The Southern Partnership Group [SPG] that I chaired was instructed by Cabinet to take the major decisions but officials, especially health officials, second guessed us all the way, because they were each answerable to their own Minister. As an example, it took the SPG two months of analysis to decide the city blocks where the

  2. Article · Aug 16, 2026 · Pete Hodgson

    Why Dunedin has two hospital buildings and why it took so long (opens the original)

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    In late 2017, almost nine years ago, Cabinet appointed me to chair the governance group of the new Dunedin hospital. The new Labour government had watched from Opposition while not much happened, and now they wanted action. My first ever meeting on the job was with David Perez, a recently retired oncologist, who has an abundance of common sense. He was chair of the clinical leadership group comprising clinicians of all descriptions — nurses, doctors, physiotherapists and other health professiona

  3. Article · Aug 16, 2026 · Pete Hodgson

    How the new Outpatient building came to be, and why it took so very long (opens the original)

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    In late 2017, almost nine years ago, Cabinet appointed me to chair the governance group of the new Dunedin hospital. The new Labour government had watched from Opposition while not much happened, and now they wanted action. My first ever meeting on the job was with David Perez, a recently retired oncologist, who has an abundance of commonsense. He was chair of the clinical leadership group comprising clinicians of all descriptions — nurses, doctors, physiotherapists and other health professional

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