Hon Tariana Turia speech to the National Leadership and Workforce Development Forum

National Leadership and Workforce Development Forum

Waipuna Hotel and Conference Centre, Mt Wellington, Auckland

Tuesday 29 March 2011; 9.30am

Hon Tariana Turia, Associate Minister of Health

I am pleased to be joining together with you today at this National leadership and workforce development forum. And I say joining together deliberately because I see this event as a joining together of many parts.

Firstly, it is the bringing together of many key stakeholders in Cancer Screening; the National Screening Unit; National Services Purchasing; and the National Health Board.

But it is also about the bringing together of a range of historical group meetings and conferences held for the kaimahi, Pacific screening workers and health promoters operating under the auspices of the National Cervical Screening Programme and BreastScreen Aotearoa.

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