Dear District Health Board Candidates
Soon I and thousands like me will cast our votes to choose our District Health Boards. Given the huge budgets of DHBs and the huge potential to influence health outcomes I want more information from you than a couple of paragraphs I received with the voting packs. Below are two questions I think are important. As this is an open letter on a blog site, I invite others to submit their questions too. I also invite you, the candidates, to state your name, the DHB you are running for and your response to my or other posted questions (ie not just the blurb from your pamphlets).
My questions:
1. What single health intervention do you want to see implemented and what evidence do you have that it would be efficacious?
2. What plans have you for increasing patient participation in research?
Regards
Dr John Pickering
Tagged: budget, District Health Board, evidence based policy, health, Research, Vote 
