text: The big health overhaul picks up pace | Politik
  Home Politics The big health overhaul picks up pace
  Health Minister Andrew Little has set out the bottom lines for what is looking like the most far-reaching shakeup of the country's health sector since the 1980s.
  And POLITIK believes that the Government now intends to move "at pace" to fill in the detail and then implement the reforms.
  Significant announcements can be expected in the lead-up to the Budget in May.
  And though a substantial consultation process has been underway since the Health and Disability Review Transition Unit was established within the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet last September, detailed consultation will follow the next announcement.
  That will involve the always-difficult talk of persuading the various health sector groups to agree to what for many will be radical changes.
  Health Minister Andrew Little, in what appears to have been a very carefully crafted speech yesterday, set out the principles guiding the implementation of the Review.