RNZ
Cautiously optimistic is how Māori GPs and health advocates are feeling after the announcement tangata whenua will have their own health body.
Porirua health professionals and local iwi have great expectations for the forthcoming Māori Health Authority, as the community grapples with high deprivation, high concentrations of patients with complex needs, inequity and access concerns. Health Minister Andrew Little foreshadowed the authority’s creation as part of a major announcement on Wednesday which also spelt the end of the fragmented district health board (DHB) system set to be replaced by a centralised agency, Health NZ. While specific details on the Māori authority were yet to be ironed out, including the level of funding it would be responsible for, Little confirmed it would have commissioning powers, and would be able to make joint decisions alongside Health NZ.
John Fiso, chairman of the Fiso Group and Dr Stephen Grice of Rako Science
News from Fiso Group
Fiso Group, Pacific Health Plus and Rako Science have teamed up to deliver saliva testing at a community health day in Porirua, as part of preparations to deliver the test more widely in New Zealand.
The community health day will be run out of Pacific Health Plus (PHP), a healthcare provider in Cannons Creek servicing over 2500 patients, mainly of Pacific descent in the area, at the end of March.
Rako Science, a Kiwi-owned company, has the only validated and accredited COVID-19 saliva test in New Zealand. The test is based on the University of Illinois Shield test.
Friday, 5 March 2021, 4:38 pm
Fiso John, Chairman PHP and Fiso Group and Stephen Grice, Director, Rako Science.
Fiso Group, Pacific Health Plus and Rako Science have teamed up to deliver saliva testing at a community health day in Porirua, as part of preparations to deliver the test more widely in New Zealand.
The community health day will be run out of Pacific Health Plus (PHP), a healthcare provider in Cannons Creek, Porirua, servicing over 2500 patients, mainly of Pacific descent in the area, at the end of March.
Rako Science, a Kiwi-owned company has the only validated and accredited COVID-19 saliva test in New Zealand. The test is based on the University of Illinois Shield test.
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Press Release – PCF
The Pacific Cooperation Foundation (PCF) announced the winners for its Inaugural Pacific Cooperation Foundation Youth Leadership Awards at Parliament on Wednesday.
The awards ceremony was hosted by the Hon Aupito William Sio, Minister for Pacific Peoples and Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs.
PCF lead/management consultant Afamasaga Jackie Curry said, “The aim of the PCF Youth Leadership Awards is to encourage and reward service leadership to benefit our communities not just in Aotearoa New Zealand, but also the Pacific region.
“Pacific people are a growing, youthful and diverse population both in New Zealand and in the Pacific region, so these awards acknowledge and encourage the contribution and achievements of our young Pacific emerging leaders as well as their families who support them,” Afamasaga said.