2805 (2025). Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall to the Associate Minister of Health

2805 (2025). Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall to the Associate Minister of Health: What progress, if any, has been made in the quarter July to September 2024 on the action ‘Develop and implement a workforce strategy that increases and retains the number of Māori health practitioners working in the mate wareware sector, and increases the capacity and capability of Māori health providers to deliver mate wareware services’ under the objective ‘Strengthen leadership and capability across the sector’ within Te Whatu Ora’s Improving Dementia Mate Wareware Services in Aotearoa New Zealand Action Plan?

Hon Casey Costello: I am advised that work was underway to support the development of the Health New Zealand Workforce plan 2024 which was launched in December 2024 and includes strategies which aim to increase, retain and train Māori health practitioners working in the health sector. https://www.tewhatuora.govt.nz/publications/health-workforce-plan-2024