Friday, 12 March 2021, 10:06 am
The Association of Salaried Medical Specialists and the
New Zealand Medical Association are making clear their
support for the establishment of a Māori Health Authority
with full commissioning rights, as a new pathway to deliver
health equity for Māori.
The Final
Report of the Health and Disability System Review
included a recommendation for a Māori Health Authority.
However, Review members were split on whether it should have
the power to commission and fund services. An “alternative
view” in the report called for these greater
powers.
A Māori Health Authority was also part of
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STUFF
One focus of Government probe will be whether the drug-buying agency is making decisions on new medicines quickly enough.
OPINION: With each major change of government in recent years, Pharmac has been required either to list a particular drug (Herceptin under National), or undergo a review (the current government), or both a new listing (Interferon) and a review (in the early 2000s). This degree of scrutiny speaks to the sensitive and contested area the agency occupies. As an agent of government it makes inherently controversial decisions (with life-and-death consequences in some instances), but at arm’s length from the political process.
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Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi makes a point about being forced to wear a tie in parliament. Photo / NZME
Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi makes a point about being forced to wear a tie in parliament. Photo / NZME
A DIFFERENT LIGHT
Government reports, reviews, strategies and determinations. Some of them can come with a certain kind of loftiness, a broadness that can border on being nebulous, offering nothing that gives a line in the sand or lays out a clear declaration.