The Chief of a primary health organization in Dunedin, which has managed to excel in a national league table, has concerns that its performance will be threatened when it is meshed with the latest Otago-Southland PHO.

Starting June, as many as 9 PHOs from across Otago and Southland will stop operations, in order to form the new super PHO.

Barbara Bridger, the Chief Executive of the Mornington PHO, shared that she was "quite excited" to see a league table of the Ministry of Health, which had showed that Mornington had been placed in the top 5 New Zealand PHOs based on as many as 7 measures, making it the only one to do so.

The super PHO scheme has, however, managed to worry her a bit. The final structure of entity has not been finalized as yet.

In fact, many PHO Chiefs are now concerned that their "babies" are under a threat, posed by the establishment of the super PHO.

PHO Transition Board Chairman, Conway Powell, while saying that he was pleased with the performance of all the Otago and Southland PHOs as far as the league table went, stressed that he understood the concerns of PHO Chiefs and assured them that there are no reasons to worry.