44370 (2024). Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall to the Minister of Health

44370 (2024). Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall to the Minister of Health: What actions, if any, have been taken in the quarter (January to March 2024) to implement the recommendation ‘Ensure Nationally consistent prioritisation systems’ as part of Te Whatu Ora Planned Care Taskforce Reset and Restore Plan?

Hon Dr Shane Reti: I refer the Member to Written Parliamentary Question 44341 (2024). I am further advised that Health New Zealand now applies consistent national priority categories to its national data set. At a local level, a reducing, but significant, range of priority sub-categories are still used by some clinical specialties, however.