Health Minister Simeon Brown is making major changes by bringing back the board of Health New Zealand.
It comes as an audit of the public health agency found financial difficulties and "significant concerns."
Senior Political Correspondent Barry Soper tells Ryan Bridge one of those concerns was senior management not having a meeting for two years.
"If it was laughable, you'd say it was an orchestrated litany of laughs, but it's not because it's not funny," he said.
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