Apparently, Auckland DHB is now going to play an expensive game of Chicken with Labtests. The Herald reports that “Auckland’s district health boards are considering bringing Diagnostic Medlab back into the provision of community laboratory services because of persisting problems with the newcomer Labtests”. This is silly. If Labtests are providing an inadequate service, they [...]

In what has to be the most bizarre twist in the DML/Labtests saga, Diagnostic Medlabs has hired a film crew to interview people emerging from Labtests’ rooms. I have to assume that the CEO of DML, Arthur Morris, has finally gone off the deep end. Admittedly, he has had a lot of stress in his [...]

If there was anything that illustrates the thoroughly dysfunctional relationship between Labtests and Diagnostic Medlab, it is the refusal of Labtests to reveal their transition plan, despite an OIA request, on the grounds that it has commercially sensitive data. I can’t say I blame them. All the evidence to date suggests that DML would do [...]

It seems that the fight between the diagnostic labs fighting for the Auckland DHB contract will go all the way to the Supreme Court.  Deal-making for Auckland’s lucrative community laboratory service has been thrown into fresh turmoil by a Court of Appeal decision, but the case may go to the country’s highest court. Three judges [...]