Health NZ is unable to tell if spending millions to ramp up the health system to cope in winter has actually worked.
The government promises it is putting the welfare of children first in its moves to get rid of Section 7AA of the Children's Act, but the step is deeply unpopular, with warnings it will set back efforts to make tamariki safer.
Te Whatu Ora may have to be told how to engage meaningfully with iwi Māori partnership boards, say Māori health officials.
Former Children's Minister Tracey Martin has spoken out against the government's plans to repeal Section 7AA from the Oranga Tamariki Act.
Starship children’s hospital leaders have spoken against removing Treaty of Waitangi provisions from child protection laws, saying it would make their job much more difficult.
Māori health providers are in "a state of abeyance" after Te Aka Whai Ora — the Māori Health Authority — was scrapped.
This speech was delivered by Royal on behalf of the Iwi Chairs Forum to Prime Minister Christoper Luxon and his delegation at last Friday’s forum, hosted by Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei.
New Zealand’s largest iwi, Ngāpuhi, is organising a hīkoi to Parliament over the repeal of section 7AA of the Oranga Tamariki Act. So, what is section 7AA and why is it the centre of much controversy?
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says today’s National Iwi Chairs Forum was “a positive and robust dialogue”, despite iwi leaders walking out in protest.
Associate health minister David Seymour’s directive to Pharmac may streamline decisionmaking but it downplays the true role of the Treaty of Waitangi, writes Dominic O’Sullivan
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