10267 (2024). Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall to the Minister of Health

10267 (2024). Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall to the Minister of Health: What progress, if any, has been made in the quarter October – December 2023 to ‘Ensure national consistency and increased access to urgent oral surgery for children’ under section 2.2 ‘Kahu Taurima | Maternity and early years’ within Te Whatu Ora’s Te Pae Tata: Interim New Zealand Health Plan 2022?

Hon Dr Shane Reti: I am advised that during the October - December 2023 quarter, Health New Zealand continued to increase access for children to urgent oral surgery in some regions. During the quarter, the waitlist within Te Manawa Taki decreased, and the waitlist for urgent patients within Central Region also decreased.