The pandemic – a stimulus to healthcare innovation

This piece was published on 9th April 2020 in The Dominion Post:

If there is a silver lining to this grim COVID-19 pandemic it is that our health system has responded magnificently to the challenge and, in so doing, has had to adopt new ways of working, many of which have been long advocated and which we should now embed in our system.

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Peter Davis NZ

Peter Davis recently retired from Auckland University where he established and headed the COMPASS research group in the Faculty of Arts for ten years and before that taught and researched in health policy and health services in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences (and for a time at the Christchurch Medical School) for 30 years. Peter remains an Honorary Professor in Statistics and an Emeritus Professor in Population Health and Social Science at the University of Auckland. He was recently elected to the Auckland District Health Board where his main areas of interest are: the reporting and using of information to improve the performance of health systems, the effective management of public sector organisations to achieve policy goals, and the development of evidence-informed public policy. Peter is also Chair of the Board of Trustees at The Helen Clark Foundation, a New Zealand-focussed public policy think tank.

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