Te Whatu Ora has managed to complete just three of the 101 recommendations a taskforce made 13 months ago, to improve wait times.  

The planned care taskforce made the suggestions as one of the first major pieces of work post the switch from DHBs. 

Seventy have implementation or planning under way, while 28 have not been active at all. 

Senior lecturer at canterbury university's faculty of health Sandra Richardson told Kate Hawkesby that “It is incredibly unlikely that we will be able to make any significant changes” in wait times.

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