Examples of CHE (Crown Health Enterprises) initiatives over the past three years

In the Overview to the briefing on Crown Health Enterprises to the incoming Minister, produced by the Crown Company Monitoring Advisory Unit and released under the Official Information Act, two observations were made. The first was that, despite the fact that 21 out of the 23 CHEs were in deficit, there had been considerable improvement in the effective and efficient management of many CHEs. It was also observed that there needed to be a recognition that with any organisation, particularly when it is a health organisation undergoing a period of major change, its day-to-day successes tend to be invisible while its failures tend to be glaring. An appendix detailing some of the major successful initiatives CHEs consider they have made over the past three years reads as follows.