Phil Bagshaw, of Christchurch, CNZM, for services to health
Phil Bagshaw helped establish the Canterbury Charity Hospital, chaired its Trust, and remains a volunteer specialist General Surgeon. He has been appointed to the Canterbury District Health Board and several Ministry of Health committees and has chaired the New Zealand branch of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and the Council of Medical Colleges in New Zealand. He helped found the Academy of Endosurgery Trust and organised two international laparoscopic-surgery conferences. He helped initiate the internationally recognised Laparoscopic Colorectal Cancer Study. He chaired the Scientific Assessing Committee for the Canterbury Medical Research Foundation. Mr Bagshaw was President of the New Zealand Society of Gastroenterology and chaired the New Zealand Liver Transplant Advisory Group for 15 years.