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 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)
Intellectually disabled people can expect to live 20 years less than the general population; for Māori, the gap is even wider. IHC New Zealand advocate Shara Turner outlines a profound system failure
Members of the disabled community in Gisborne set up a meeting with GDC last Thursday to share the Whaikaha Community Led Recovery Plan and address the Gisborne Disability strategy being 10 years out of date
In a move Labour says is a "massive vote of no confidence" in the Disability Issues Minister, further decisions about disability changes will need to go to Cabinet
Intellectually disabled people can expect to live 20 years less than the general population; for Māori, the gap is even wider. IHC New Zealand advocate Shara Turner outlines a profound system failure
Pou Tangata of the NICF and Chairs of Iwi Māori Partnership Boards (IMPBs) collectively express profound concern regarding recent and immediate disability funding restrictions announced by Whaikaha, the Ministry of Disabled People
More than a quarter of people who live with migraine disease say the condition has caused them to miss school or work for more than five days over a three-month period, a survey from the University of Otago, Wellington, and the Migraine Foundation Aotearoa New Zealand has found
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