Will we get better?

Andrew Chick | Senior Communications Advisor

The arrival of Health New Zealand and the Māori Health Authority on 1 July will mark the most significant change to our health system in a generation. It has been hailed by the Government as an opportunity to tackle persistent health inequities and help end the so-called postcode lottery in terms of access to healthcare. Much of the political debate about the new system has been tied up in arguments about levels of bureaucracy, poor timing, and separatism. But what about the ‘health’ of the system itself? We have taken some key indictors or benchmarks to create a visual series, highlighting some of the problems the system must improve on if the health reforms are to be judged a success. In the coming months and years, the measure of Health New Zealand and the Māori Health Authority will become clearer. But the overall question must continue to be #willwegetbetter?

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