The Popcorn Panels take a look at “Why not? A Māori health commissioning agency”

Grab some popcorn, hit the couch; New Zealand Doctor|Rata Aotearoa brings you the second Popcorn Panel tomorrow night taking a closer look at recommendations of the Health and Disability System Review panel report, aka the Simpson report.

Tomorrow night’s topic is “Why not? A Māori health commissioning agency” looking at the recommendations around Māori health services and the resulting impact on equity.

Join New Zealand Doctor|Rata Aotearoa editor Barbara Fountain and panellists professor of public health Peter Crampton, Ōpōtiki GP Kēri Rātima and Māori health policy consultant Gabrielle Baker for an hour on Zoom as they chat and take questions from the audience about the direction the health sector might be taking.

The panels are free to attend but it is necessary to register at https://www.thehealthmedia.co.nz/popcorn-panels

While you are there, you can check out details for a further two panels planned in this series: General practice – missing in action (21 July, 7pm) and Health NZ and super-sized DHBs – déjà vu? (23 July)

If you have registered already for tomorrow’s panel, the link to the meeting is in the email you received confirming your registration. You need to have that handy to access the panel.

ABOUT THE PANELLISTS:

Peter Crampton
Peter Crampton is a professor of public health in Kōhatu, the Centre for Hauora Māori, at the University of Otago. He researches and teaches Māori health, health systems and public health. He started his professional life as a GP and later specialised in public health medicine. He was a member of the Government’s Health and Disability System Review panel, which was tasked with making recommendations on the future of New Zealand’s health system.

Kēri Rātima
Kēri Rātima (Te Whakatōhea) is a GP in Ōpōtiki. She has a particular interest in a health system in Aotearoa which gives practical expression to Te Tiriti o Waitangi principles. She supports a Māori Health Authority with a commissioning role. She wholeheartedly agrees with the alternate view in the report, that commissioning would best begin with Māori workforce development programmes, and Māori provider development and innovation funding to improve Māori health. She notes there is currently a petition, created by a Ōpōtiki residents, for the House of Representatives to call on the Government to adopt Māori commissioning.

Gabrielle Baker
Gabrielle Baker (Ngāpuhi) is a former public servant and Māori health policy practitioner who now works as a consultant with clients committed to developing a pro-equity, anti-racist health and disability system. Gabrielle also has a strong interest in the application of Te Tiriti o Waitangi across the health and disability system.

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