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Maori Health Partnership Boards Lose Decision-Making Power

RNZ National Wellington 11d11d Impact 5
Māori health providers are essential for increasing immunization rates among Māori whānau. Current data shows immunization rates for Māori are significantly lower than other groups.

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Sources · 7 independent

RNZ National

“Māori health providers are trusted by Māori whānau. They have the ability to engage with them, they have access to them. So it is really important to fund Māori providers because they will ensure that whānau get access to full information about why they should immunise their tamariki and then they are more likely to uptake the immunization.”

RNZ National

“Māori health providers are trusted by Māori whānau. They have the ability to engage with them, they have access to them.”

RNZ National

“the Minister of Health ultimately has final say. We have no decision-making anymore. It's effectively stripped Teneranga Te Ratanga which was the intention of the original act.”

RNZ National

“our health outcomes are much, much worse. And we had a qu- shut out of decision-making, shut out of commissioning.”

RNZ National

“All decision making is going to be centralised and not served well in health by the Government. And through structure to commission, for example, in the PIE 2022 we could commission health planning, or health delivery. Now we are relegated to an advisory capacity.”

RNZ National

“We are relegated to an advisory capacity. So in advice we could kaiwhakahare for the Māori Waua City with no teeth. An advisory capacity that is not actually accountable to their communities.”

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