Northland District Health Board CEO Nick Chamberlain has spent $119,487 of taxpayers' money on travel, training and meetings in three years - the third highest of all 20 DHB bosses.
Only Waikato DHB boss Nigel Murray, who resigned earlier this year partly because of his huge expense expenditure ($218,166) and Lakes DHB boss Ron Durham ($124,335) have spent more. All up the 20 DHB CEOs spent almost $1.2 million between them over the three-year period.
In a response to the expenses NDHB said over and above his CEO role in Northland Dr Chamberlain has held two of the largest chief executive national portfolios for the past three years.
He is the lead chief executive of the Primary Care Steering Group and is the northern region lead for the Employment Relations Strategy Group and has been heavily involved in a number of national employer/ employee negotiations.
Dr Chamberlain was chosen for these lead national roles because of his experience as a general practitioner (Primary Care Steering Group ) and his ability to negotiate with his peers.