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After deliberately under-funding Health NZ, and asking Kiwis to personally pray for him, Dr Lester Levy couldn’t help but show his hand today.
Health NZ is now calling for voluntary redundancies, and who do you think will leave first? The most qualified or not?
But that won’t be all - we all know that, right?
Levy already admitted a leaked proposal to cut 4492 Health NZ staff including well over a thousands doctors & nurses, was a precise model of the savings he has been tasked to attain.