1 Aug 2024

Health NZ will stop using tool prioritising ethnicity

From Checkpoint, 4:46 pm on 1 August 2024

Health NZ will stop using an equity adjustor tool that prioritised ethnicity as one of five factors in non-urgent surgical waitlists. A review found the tool is "legally and ethically justifiable" but doesn't follow "best practice," political editor Jo Moir speaks to Susana Lei'ataua.

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