A senior doctor blew the whistle for months on unsafe radiology services at Hawke's Bay Hospital.
Dr Bryan Wolf says it's criminal that despite his and RNZ's efforts to make this public, it's taken till this week for Te Whatu Ora to release its report.
The agency's interim chief clinical officer Dr Richard Sullivan says he has thanked and apologised to Wolf.
But Sullivan told reporter Phil Pennington they broke no rules when they kept the information back from RNZ, on the basis the whistleblowers' act forbade them releasing Wolf's identity.
The report out this week does not identify Wolf as the whistleblower anyway.
