Post by Kiwi Frontline on Apr 10, 2024 3:00:55 GMT 12
BSA FINDS KATE HAWKESBY COMMENTS ON MĀORI AND PASIFIKA ‘MISLEADING AND DISCRIMINATORY’
The Broadcasting Standards Authority has upheld a complaint against broadcaster Kate Hawkesby, ruling remarks she made about Māori and Pasifika surgical patients breached multiple standards.
A June 2023 broadcast of Newstalk ZB’s Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby saw the radio host make an inaccurate statement about Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand’s then-new Equity Adjuster Score in the Auckland region.
The system places patients on the non-urgent surgical wait list based on five categories, including clinical priority, time spent waiting, location, deprivation level and ethnicity.
The BSA said Hawkesby made comments suggesting Māori and Pacific peoples “moved to the top of surgery waitlists”, giving the impression that ethnicity was the deciding factor for surgical wait times.
If this were true, all Māori and Pacific patients would be given “immediate precedence on the surgical waitlist”, the BSA said....
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350239551/bsa-finds-kate-hawkesby-comments-maori-and-pasifika-misleading-and-discriminatory
The Broadcasting Standards Authority has upheld a complaint against broadcaster Kate Hawkesby, ruling remarks she made about Māori and Pasifika surgical patients breached multiple standards.
A June 2023 broadcast of Newstalk ZB’s Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby saw the radio host make an inaccurate statement about Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand’s then-new Equity Adjuster Score in the Auckland region.
The system places patients on the non-urgent surgical wait list based on five categories, including clinical priority, time spent waiting, location, deprivation level and ethnicity.
The BSA said Hawkesby made comments suggesting Māori and Pacific peoples “moved to the top of surgery waitlists”, giving the impression that ethnicity was the deciding factor for surgical wait times.
If this were true, all Māori and Pacific patients would be given “immediate precedence on the surgical waitlist”, the BSA said....
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350239551/bsa-finds-kate-hawkesby-comments-maori-and-pasifika-misleading-and-discriminatory