Health NZ: fewer billion-dollar hospital projects, more staging

Health NZ: fewer billion-dollar hospital projects, more staging
Health NZ head of infrastructure delivery Blake Lepper. (Image: Health NZ)
Oliver Lewis
New Zealand faces a $115 billion bill for upgrading public health infrastructure over the next 30 years unless it changes how hospitals are maintained, procured and delivered.The Infrastructure Commission, Te Waihanga, released a report earlier this year containing the figure, which is more than four times what NZ currently spends.Blake Lepper, the head of infrastructure delivery at Health NZ and a key member of its Infrastructure Investment Group (IIG), said the research sent a stark message that the sector needed to do things differently...

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