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Director and Deputy Director of the Government’s Health and Disability Transition Unit (TU), Stephen McKernan (former Dir. Gen of Health) and Martin Hefford, will speak at a Federation of Primary Health (FPHANZ) webinar on Friday

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The group tasked with creating a new Māori Health Authority has been told to ensure tino rangatiratanga is embedded at every level and iwi partnership boards have teeth.

Wednesday 7 July 2021, 11:20 AM 8 minutes to Read The purpose of this information gathering exercise is to understand and catalogue existing Primary Health Organisation (PHO) practice and enablers that could support a population health approach to localities. The key objectives of this information gathering exercise are to: understand the PHO’s perspective on the aspirations of communities, iwi and providers catalogue current practice across PHOs in relation to localities capture learnings ...

+Undoctored by eHealthNews.nz editor Rebecca McBeth Tuesday 29 June 2021, 09:30 AM 2 minutes to Read The new national health service will not focus on “ripping and replacing” DHB IT systems but will implement national systems where it makes sense to do so, the lead policy advisor for digital and data within the Transition Unit says. Health Minister Andrew Little announced in April that the government is scrapping all 20 DHBs and replacing them with a new Crown entity called Health N...

Related Podcast Urban Maori are absent from the steering group put together by Sir Mason Durie to identify candidates for the interim board of the Māori Health Authority. The group is heavy on tribal executives, with Dr Matire Harwood the only medical practitioner. Ngai Tahus Sir Mark Solomon, Kim Ngarimu from Ngati Porou and Parekawhia McLean from Waikato Tainui chair have experience at governance or executive level on district health boards. The other members are Rāhui Papa from Waikato Tai...

Urban Māori are absent from the steering group put together by Sir Mason Durie to identify candidates for the interim board of the Māori Health...

Lisa Tumahai “Tā Mason has assembled a strong group of Māori leaders to begin this important process. I am confident that their leadership, experience and perspectives will enable access to the network of talent within Māoridom and allow them to identify a high-performing group of candidates to provide governance leadership to the interim Māori Health Authority. This approach is a marker of the future health system I am seeking – that we move forward in a true partnership approach with ...