Indigenous Māori and Pacific Island patients are given a higher priority on the list, pushing down white New Zealanders and other ethnicities. The idea is to balance out longstanding inequities in the publicly funded health system.
It turns out that in some parts of Auckland, the country's largest city at 1.4 million people, clinicians have been using an algorithm to adjust where patients sit on elective surgery waitlists. Clinical need remains the top factor, but the algorithm also takes into account how long patients have been on the waitlist, where they live, their financial circumstances, and their ethnicity.
“It's pretty simple,” Opposition Leader Christopher Luxon told reporters Monday. “Race shouldn't play any part in determining surgical need.” Hipkins said he asked Health Minister Ayesha Verrall to take a closer look at the tool to ensure "we're not replacing one form of discrimination with another."“I think it is important that we address the inequalities that we have in life expectancy and health services for Māori,” she said. “I think it's disappointing the tone that it's taken."
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