Interim report on system: What the reviewers said

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Interim report on system: What the reviewers said

HEATHER SIMPSON seated
Heather Simpson and fellow reviewers of the health and disability system say mātauranga Māori and rights under the Treaty of Waitangi must be fully implemented

The message from Māoridom gathered force in 2019, and the gavel dropped on the health system: guilty of producing inequalities of outcome for Māori and doing little to remedy them. Virginia McMillan reports

The health system can’t keep going in its present form, based largely on a Western medical model – it won’t achieve equitable outcomes. This is on