Share Māori and Pacific children face more barriers to seeing a GP than other children and those who do are twice as likely to be hospitalised, according to a new report led by a Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington researcher. The Prevalence and Consequences of Barriers to seeing a GP report, funded by the Ministry of Social Development’s Children and Families Research Fund, found 8.3 percent of Māori children and 7 percent of Pacific children experienced barriers to seeing a GP between the ages of 12 and 24 months, compared with 2.8 percent of New Zealand European children. This rose to 9 percent for Māori children and 9.1 percent for Pacific children between the ages of 42 and 54 months, compared with 3.2 percent for New Zealand European children.