Candidate Statement

Peter Kelly has a profound commitment to an effective public health system, as healthcare availability is crucial for achieving social justice.  He has spent the last eleven years working to improve the effectiveness of service delivery and regulation in the public and private sectors.  After five years assisting with the technology that manages the New Zealand Electoral Roll, Peter then moved into the private sector.  He has managed projects delivered to some of New Zealand’s largest companies, and has assisted Australian energy market operators with the implementation of change and technology.  Passionate about the potential for excellent governance to improve service quality, he has a Masters of Management degree, awarded with distinction, which included study of social policy, corporate governance, and a research project about the importance of government agencies listening to their communities.  Peter lives in Karori with his wife, children, one sheep and a kune-kune pig.

He Kupu Whakaahua mō te Tangata Tū mō Te Pōti

He kaupapa kaingākau ki a Pita Kelly te waihanga tikanga hauora toitū mō te iwi whānui, inā hoki mā te whakawātea taurimatanga hauora mā te katoa, e mau ai te ora o te iwi.  Ko ētahi o ana mahi he whakahaere kaupapa mō ētahi o ngā kamupene nunui rawa o Aotearoa, ā, i āwhina hoki ia i ētahi o ngā hinonga hokohoko pūngao i Ahitereiria i te taha whakatinana tikanga hou, me te mahi hangarau.  He tangata ngākau nui ki te kawe whakamua i ngā mahi o te taha mana i roto i ngā whakahaere hei huarahi whakapiki i te pai o ngā mahi, ā, he Tohu Paerua mō te Whakahaere tāna, he mea tuku me te tohu hiranga i te taha.  E noho ana a Pita i Karori i te taha o tana wahine, o ā rāua tamariki, te hipi kotahi me te poaka kunekune.

 

Top 5 Issues

1. Protect the worst off from the impact of Government funding cuts.
   
   The National and Act parties have cut funding for public health and will continue to do so, relative to the consistent growth in health input costs. While I applaud the parliamentary opposition in arguing against these cuts, as a District Health Board member my role would be to work constructively to ensure that the long-term damage caused by funding cuts is controlled, and that the worst off are spared as much as possible.
2. Smarter use of technology, to apply some of the $18m per year the DHB spends on IT each year to medical priorities.
   
   I work as a consultant in reinventing services to perform more effectively, largely using smarter information technology. This has included work in energy markets in Australia, and work for the public and private sector in New Zealand.
   
   The DHB spends $18 million per year on computing services. A lot of that money goes offshore, to pay for licenses to operate foreign-owned computer software. That was also the way that the Electoral Roll, which underlies our voting system, used to operate. I replaced that foreign-licensed system with another which was more effective, cheaper to staff and operate, and which was built from freely available components by a local company. This is an example how we can save millions from the DHB budget without cutting services - in this case, services were better after the savings. And this happened in 2003, so the results are now well proven.

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