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MINUTES
Held on Wednesday 1 September 2021
Location: Zoom
Zoom: 876 5068 1844
2DHB CONCURRENT BOARD MEETING
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Due to Covid 19 alert level (level 3) only the Chair and limited staff attended in person (in person
marked with * and all others on zoom)
PRESENT
David Smol
Chair, Hutt Valley and Capital & Coast DHBs
Dr Kathryn Adams
Board Member
Ria Earp
Board Member
Brendan Boyle
Board Member
Ken Laban
Board Member
Hamiora Bowkett
Board Member
Prue Lamason
Board Member
Dr Tristram Ingham Board Member
Naomi Shaw
Board Member
Sue Kedgley
Board Member
Dr Richard Stein
Board Member
Roger Blakeley
Board Member
John Ryall
Board Member
Dr Chris Kalderimis
Board Member
Josh Briggs
Board Member
Vanessa Simpson
Board Member
Wayne Guppy
Deputy Chair
APOLOGIES
‘Ana Coffey
Stacey Shortall
IN ATTENDANCE
Hutt Valley and Capital & Coast DHB
Fionnagh Dougan
Chief Executive
Rosalie Percival
Chief Financial Officer
Arawhetu Gray
Director Maori Health
Karla Bergquist
Executive Director Mental Health, Addictions and Intellectual Disability Services
Paul Oxnam
Executive Clinical Director Mental Health, Addictions and Intellectual Disability
Services
Joy Farley
Director Provider Services
John Tait
Chief Medical Officer
Sarah Jackson
Director of Clinical Excellence
Rachel Gully
Director People and Culture
Sue Gordon
Director Transformation
Helen Mexted
Director of Communication and Engagement
Sally Dossor
Director, Office of the Chief Executive and Board Secretary
Meila Wilkins
Board Liaison Officer
Procedural note:
The public excluded part of the meeting commenced at 1pm.
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0.1 Discussion - Te Awakairangi Birthing Centre
Board member Richard Stein (and Prue Lamason) spoke to a paper they had circulated to members
the night prior to the meeting.
Richard Stein sought the leave of the meeting to move the following:
(a) I move that the Hutt Valley DHB enter into discussions with the Te Awakairangi Birthing
Centre to negotiate a contract to provide postnatal care to women who birth at their facility
or who are transferred to their facility from the Hutt Hospital maternity ward. The rate of
reimbursement would be the same as the DHB receives from its funder arm for this service.
(b) That the birthing centre recognises Hutt Valley DHB's pro-equity policy for Māori and Pasifika
mothers.
Procedural notes:
The motion above was not on the agenda, but could not be delayed until the next scheduled
meeting of the Board (6 October 2021) given the announced closure date of the Te
Awakairangi Birthing Centre (23 September 2021).
With the leave of the meeting the motion was accepted so that a vote could be taken and
the HVDHB Board position recorded.
Because the motion (if passed) would require the DHB to undertake negotiations with a
particular provider, the vote was taken while the public was excluded.
The motion was put to a vote (of HVDHB members only) and a division called:
Voting for the motion: Richard Stein and Prue Lamason
Voting against the motion: David Smol, Josh Briggs, Keri Brown, Yvette Grace, Wayne
Guppy, Ria Earp, Ken Laban, John Ryall and Naomi Shaw.
Moved
Seconded
HVDHB
Richard Stein
Prue Lamason
LOST
[Items 1-7.4 have not been included as out of scope of the request]
7.5 GENERAL BUSINESS
Richard Stein thanked the Chair and members for a robust and thorough meeting process.
The meeting closed at 3:58pm.
CONFIRMED that these minutes constitute a true and correct record of the proceedings of the
meeting.
DATED this
6th
day of
October
2021
David Smol
BOARD CHAIR
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