Under 5s health reforms could address ethnic inequalities

Inequalities for Māori and Pasifika could be challenged by new healthcare services reforms for children under five. A Government review has found children are slipping through the cracks of its health system - the Well Child Tamariki Ora programme. Whānau Āwhina Plunket provides about 85-percent of the service and its chief executive Amanda Malu has admitted to the role it played in that inequity, saying it needed to do better. Māni Dunlop speaks to the National Hauora Coalition's clinical director Dr Rawiri Jansen, and Pasifika Futures chief executive Debbie Sorensen.