62568 (2024). Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall to the Associate Minister of Health

62568 (2024). Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall to the Associate Minister of Health: What progress, if any, has been made in the quarter April to June 2024 on the action ‘Design and implement initiatives to improve equity of access to culturally appropriate diagnosis and management planning for Māori and measure the impact of those initiatives’ under the objective ‘Support people living with dementia mate wareware and their family /whānau supporters/care partners to live their best possible lives’ within Te Whatu Ora’s Improving Dementia Mate Wareware Services in Aotearoa New Zealand Action Plan?

Hon Casey Costello: I am advised that during the April to June 2024 quarter, the National Cognitive Impairment HealthPathway was added to all remaining New Zealand Community HealthPathways sites. As a result, the Pathway, including the Māori Assessment of Neuropsychological Abilities (MANA) tool, is now available to clinicians throughout New Zealand. I am further advised that a national webinar was held on 3 April to promote the new MANA tool, which attracted 713 registrations on the night; 50% of whom attended live. Ongoing access to the recorded webinar is available via a link in the HealthPathway.