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Nurses’ organisation backs ethnic equity adjustor to support better health outcomes for Māori and Pasifika

Middlemore Hospital, Auckland

21 Jun 2023

NZ Herald.

The New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) supports ethnicity being part of the algorithmically derived Equity Adjustor Score currently applied to decisions over surgical wait times in Auckland.

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