Revisiting Whānau Ora history as commissioning role goes to tender

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Revisiting Whānau Ora history as commissioning role goes to tender

6 November 2024

Gabrielle Baker

Wednesday 6 November 2024, 01:00 AM

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Gabrielle Baker takes us through a brief history of Whānau Ora and how successive governments have viewed the concept, with changes coming to commissioning agencies in 2025

In October, Te Puni Kōkiri began a procurement process to find the next iteration of whānau ora commissioning agencies. Our three current whānau or

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My recollection is this concept of five cars up the driveway came from then health minister Tony Ryall sometime in 2009, which seems to align with it being used in press statements from Tony Ryall the following year: https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/five-cars-driveway-down-one
You can read some examples in the publication Ko tōku ara rā Aotearoa COVID-19 from Te Rau Ora, 2020. tinyurl.com/Te-Rau
Whānau ora commissioning role back up for grabs. Online nzdoctor.co.nz 26 June 2024.

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