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THE MĀORI HEALTH AUTHORITY PLAN THAT DIVIDED HEALTH REVIEW PANEL
“I don’t feel very good about it,” says claimant Lady Tureiti Moxon.
She says Māori cannot exercise their mana motuhake (authority) or tino rangatiratanga (self-determination) if they’re being led by the government.
“We would prefer to be the designers of our destiny,” says Lady Moxon.....
www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/300035517/the-mori-health-authority-plan-that-divided-health-review-panel
MAORI HEALTH AUTHORITY NEEDS BIGGER BUDGET, MORE TEETH
The South Island Whānau Ora commissioning agency says the Government needs to be more ambitious if it wants to alter the trajectory of Māori health inequities.
This included an indigenous commissioning framework, such as that used for allocation of whanau ora resources.
She says the review acknowledges that a system which doesn’t reflect matauranga Māori or enhance rangatiratanga will not be effective and improve health and wellbeing for Māori......
www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_story_id/MjQ3NTk=/Maori-health-Authority-needs-bigger-budget,-more-teeth
NO-SHOWS COSTING WEST COAST DHB $400K A YEAR
Patients who do not show up for medical appointments are costing the West Coast District Health Board more than $400,000 a year.
And the DHB is worried that a disproportionate number of those patients are Maori.
Chairman Rick Barker has vowed to make a difference to the health of tangata whenua on the Coast.....
www.odt.co.nz/regions/west-coast/no-shows-costing-west-coast-dhb-400k-year
MAJOR HEALTH SYSTEM REFORM WELCOMED BY TAXPAYERS’ UNION
“We’re less keen on the proposal for a separate Māori Health Authority to increase ‘kaupapa Maori services’. If this means greater emphasis on pseudo-medicinal practices like astrology-style ‘maramataka’ or prayer, then it’s taxpayer money down the drain. And any targeting of health funds on the basis of race, rather than medical need, should be rejected by fair-minded New Zealanders.”.....
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2006/S00150/major-health-system-reform-welcomed-by-taxpayers-union.htm
“I don’t feel very good about it,” says claimant Lady Tureiti Moxon.
She says Māori cannot exercise their mana motuhake (authority) or tino rangatiratanga (self-determination) if they’re being led by the government.
“We would prefer to be the designers of our destiny,” says Lady Moxon.....
www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/300035517/the-mori-health-authority-plan-that-divided-health-review-panel
MAORI HEALTH AUTHORITY NEEDS BIGGER BUDGET, MORE TEETH
The South Island Whānau Ora commissioning agency says the Government needs to be more ambitious if it wants to alter the trajectory of Māori health inequities.
This included an indigenous commissioning framework, such as that used for allocation of whanau ora resources.
She says the review acknowledges that a system which doesn’t reflect matauranga Māori or enhance rangatiratanga will not be effective and improve health and wellbeing for Māori......
www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_story_id/MjQ3NTk=/Maori-health-Authority-needs-bigger-budget,-more-teeth
NO-SHOWS COSTING WEST COAST DHB $400K A YEAR
Patients who do not show up for medical appointments are costing the West Coast District Health Board more than $400,000 a year.
And the DHB is worried that a disproportionate number of those patients are Maori.
Chairman Rick Barker has vowed to make a difference to the health of tangata whenua on the Coast.....
www.odt.co.nz/regions/west-coast/no-shows-costing-west-coast-dhb-400k-year
MAJOR HEALTH SYSTEM REFORM WELCOMED BY TAXPAYERS’ UNION
“We’re less keen on the proposal for a separate Māori Health Authority to increase ‘kaupapa Maori services’. If this means greater emphasis on pseudo-medicinal practices like astrology-style ‘maramataka’ or prayer, then it’s taxpayer money down the drain. And any targeting of health funds on the basis of race, rather than medical need, should be rejected by fair-minded New Zealanders.”.....
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2006/S00150/major-health-system-reform-welcomed-by-taxpayers-union.htm