Health NZ will stop using an equity adjustor tool that prioritised ethnicity as one of five factors in non-urgent surgical waitlists after a review found it was "legally and ethically justifiable" but didn't follow "best practice".
The Health Minister admits the public health system is still in “crisis” as rural hospitals struggle with staff shortages and Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora’s financial position comes under further scrutiny.
The final report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care challenges the coalition government with its call to honour te Tiriti o Waitangi amid a backdrop of systemic racism and historical abuse.
Survivors travelled to Parliament to see the report revealed, five-and-a-half years after its terms of reference were announced, and decades after survivors first advocated for redress.
Health services struggle to provide affordable and nondiscriminatory healthcare to Māori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow whānau, according to the latest NZ Health Survey.
A health economics professor says the Government's new direction for Pharmac could exacerbate existing inequities, with the agency now set to make wider economic and social considerations in its funding for drugs.
Recruiting medical professions into rural areas remains a challenge, says a North Canterbury mayor.
NZ Doctor. Aside from a glaring hole where new funding for Pacific providers should be, there are no surprises in the Vote Health section of the 2024 Budget, says public health academic Sir Collin Tukuitonga. Read more...
Te Kāhui Tika Tangata, the Human Rights Commission responds to the Government's Budget 2024.
For years, our rural healthcare workforce has known intuitively that those in rural areas have poorer health outcomes than those in urban areas, but there has been no clear data to show this.
HEALTH SERVICES AND SYSTEMS
EQUITY
Exploring the impacts of the health system on minorities within the population, notably including Māori, Pacifica, Asians and LGBTQI.
DRUGS, DEVICE AND DIAGNOSTICS
PUBLIC HEALTH
DIGITAL HEALTH
TE TIRITI