Although district health boards throughout New Zealand are showing signs of financial pressure, the Hawke's Bay District Health Board is reported to be in the "green" with a consistent financial performance.
A recent Treasury report found that of all the 20 DHBs in the country, only Hawke's Bay and Counties Manukau had no particular concerns for the five categories of net deficit, balance sheet, planning, productivity and repairs and maintenance.
Hawke's Bay DHB chief executive Dr Kevin Snee said the HBDHB had a "history" of poor financial performance but had been working hard to make key strategic areas such as delivering improved services.
"Over the last seven years we've been able to make some significant planned investments in terms of our infrastructure...some quite important infrastructure investments," he said.
Dr Snee said when a board was in a good financial position it was able to make deliberate investments which further helped its financial situation.