The prime minister is accusing Hawke's Bay health professionals of being "out of line" for prioritising young Māori and Pasifika.
Young Māori and Pasifika in Hawke’s Bay are no longer eligible on the basis of their ethnicity to receive some free healthcare services after the Health Minister intervened and demanded the policy be changed.
New Zealand's ongoing housing crisis is fuelling high rates of rheumatic fever among Māori and Pacific peoples, says epidemiologist Dr Jason Gurney.
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.
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?
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