Specialist GP Nikki Vadgama provides some tips to make your next paediatric eczema consult easier. She includes a review of new guidelines, resources, websites and medications for paediatric eczema management
Wednesday 14 August 2024, 12:45 AM
Test for Whaikaha as tribunal progresses disability inquiry
Wednesday 10 April 2024, 12:00 AM
“Disability” potentially includes most social sector agencies but especially the provision of disability support services, ACC funding and how the health system meets the health needs of disabled people [Image: Halfpoint on iStock]
The focus of the Waitangi Tribunal’s kaupapa inquiry into health services and outcomes is now on disability. Gabrielle Baker reports on the inquiry process, just as the sector reels from large cuts to funding support for tāngata whaikaha Māori (Māori with lived experience of disability)
The obvious questions in all of this were how does the “eco-system” look without Te Aka Whai Ora? And how does this impact tāngata whaikaha Māori?
References
- For a summary of the March 2022 hearing week, see this write up from Bernadette Jones: https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/16-03-2022/a-landmark-week-for-the-mao…
- https://www.whaikaha.govt.nz/news-and-events/news/whaikaha-purchasing-r…
- See for example: https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/350218190/families-hung-out-dry-new-…
- https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/512337/why-we-cannot-let-the-disabi…
- See for example: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/512100/disability-funding-changes-…
- https://www.nzdoctor.co.nz/article/news/cabinet-takes-greater-control-o…
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