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)
Changing the eligibility criteria for free flu vaccination is a missed opportunity to improve outcomes and close equity gaps, say University of Otago lecturers
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
Southern Cross Healthcare’s National Nursing Advisor - Māori Affairs Dean Cowles (Ngāti Awa) is in his dream role, combining his clinical nursing career with his passion to strengthen his colleagues’ connection with Te Ao Māori while also improving outcomes for Māori patients and whānau
Fiona Cassie looks at the lead-up to the eleventh-hour allocation of new immunisation funding for general practices offered in the wake of the widening of infant vax providers to community pharmacies
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
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