Team leader National Health Board service improvement manager Jill Lane said the assessment work would be completed by June 24.
It would then be discussed with Southern District Health Board management before recommendations were finalised and became publicly available, probably by the middle of July.
Ms Lane said the four-person team was receiving "all sorts of perspectives" including from patients and some people outside the hospital.
As the assessment was a broad one, the issues being raised , which Ms Lane did not describe, came within the terms of reference.
Ms Lane said a broad range of people had been very supportive of the assessment process and "very interested to take part".
While the review was prompted by five longstanding concerns, including long stays at the emergency department, access to colonoscopies and long radiology waiting times, it was not confined to those areas.
Patient flow and administrative systems and any barriers to effective risk management and service improvement are all under the spotlight.
Ms Lane named the fourth member of the team yesterday - Dr Greg Young, a forensic psychiatrist of Hawkes Bay - who she described as having a breadth of experience in a variety of other health roles.
Other members are Ministry of Health chief nurse Jane O'Malley and Canterbury professor of emergency medicine Mike Ardagh.
