The Medical Association says Auckland's new blood test provider still has not been given a clean bill of health.
A six week report on Labtests by the District Health Board's quality assurance team reveals it will be months before the company is properly up-and-running.
That is concerning news for the chair of the New Zealand Medical Association, Peter Foley.
"Although there has been improvements since the first few weeks of the transition process, there is still a dramatic amount of work that Labtests need to do to reach the standard of the previous provider, or to actually - as we would expect - superceed that," he says.
Labtests took over from Diagnostic Medlab in August, and has been plagued by complaints about its efficiency.
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