Specifically, Maori and Pacific Islander patients are given priority consideration to compensate for historic inequality in access to health care.
Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand, a national public health agency established in July 2022 to consolidate numerous regional health boards, introduced an “Equity Adjustor Score” that sets five factors to be considered in surgery priority lists.
A similar concept was introduced in the Wellington region in May 2020. Capital & Coast District Health Board medical officer John Tait insisted it was “unlikely that any other patients will be significantly affected as a result” of the rules prioritizing Maori and Pasifika candidates for surgery.
The NZ Herald said on Monday that several regional boards saw the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic as a “Big Bang opportunity to reset” the unequal healthcare system, as former Auckland board chair Pat Snedden said in May 2020. Various attempts to adjust medical access for ethnicity were introduced without much public fanfare during the pandemic.
After explaining that the ethnic score would be employed to assign slots “within a given clinical priority band” – in other words, with all other considerations of severity being equal, Maori and Pasifika patients would go first – Tait clarified that his health board would “increase planned surgery overall” to “offset” any inconvenience to other ethnicities.
The Equity Adjustor Score for Auckland was devised in February but was not implemented until this week.
Te Whatu Ora’s interim leader for Auckland, Dr. Mike Shepherd, said that Maori and Pasifika patients have a “longer pathway to get on a waiting list in our current system,” so the ethnic scoring is an effort to correct for that delay and put them on a...
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This is just adding to what we have learned about the Medical field that for the most part they and the Hospitals will feed you pills they make money off of then really look into what is wrong with you.
ReplyDeleteI happen to have a private Doctor that gave up on the large corporate medical practice as she was never seeing her family and working 60-70 hours but only seeing people 15 minutes on average. She started a private practice designed to treat people and limit time each day, so she could be with her family. She also works with Med companies to get deals and She still will respond to calls and e-mails.
New Zealand is a basket case run by stupid student politicians applying Marxism. It's taken only 5 years to wreck everything. Tax take and govt spending has soared yet everything is worse with vaste amounts of money siphoned off by Maori tribal elites. Crime is way up and the correct race may not even get jail for very serious crimes. You in the US have liberal places like this but still have conservative states to escape to. We have no where except heading overseas which thousands are doing. Corruption is rampant but we have an election in October so may swap this clown show for a more competent but still WEF approved style.
ReplyDeleteIt isn’t just surgery. Radiology referrals are now race based. NZL is being deliberately divided by race to destroy the people and allowing the communists to take control. The general election is in October. Possibly the most critical vote in NZ history and the communist alliance is ahead in the polls.
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