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Health Minister Shane Reti intervenes to scrap Hawke’s Bay health policy targeting Māori and Pasifika

Dr Shane Reti

9 Sep 2024

NZ Herald

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.

In August, Health New Zealand’s regional arm, OurHealth Hawke’s Bay, posted to its website about Health NZ’s efforts to refine the criteria used to fund additional free GP and registered nurse healthcare services in the region for young people aged 14-24 years.

The initial post said the eligibility criteria included anyone in that age group who was Māori or Pasifika. It also included those who held a community services card, lived in the most deprived areas or were diagnosed with one of several long-term conditions such as diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular disease.

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