15 Mar 2023

Te Whatu Ora wanted 'lessons' from PPPs

From Morning Report, 7:55 am on 15 March 2023

Government Ministers deny they are looking at public-private partnerships to pay for big health projects like new hospitals.

Internal documents from national health agency Te Whatu Ora show in January it was aiming to consider  "lessons" from the partnerships, or so-called PPPs.

Government policy since 2018 has banned the PPP approach in health, education and prisons

Phil Pennington has been looking into this.