The controversial tool has been implemented in Auckland, taking a person's ethnicity into account when placing them on non-urgent surgery waitlists.
abc.net.au/news/m%C4%81ori-pasifika-people-priortised-on-surgery-waitlist-new-zealand/102510010Pasifika health professionals are defending a new formula that uses ethnicity to prioritise patients for non-urgent surgery in Auckland, saying it will help address racism in the health system.
"This is a rather courageous move on the part of our main health funder to try to remedy these chronic inequities."Conservative MPs 'missing the point' Dr George Ngaei says the tool accounts for a shortfall in surgery interventions for Pasifika people. It's a view shared by Jason Alexander, interim CEO at Māori public health organisation, Hapai Te Haura.
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