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Cultural safety sits alongside clinical competence, ethical conduct and professional development as an element of patient safety.
The current Government has put politics over best practice when it comes to health regulators. We disagree with their undermining of regulators’ independence, including with the Nursing Council.  Labour will restore the independence of the health regulators. We are comfortable with these bodies making standards, including around cultural safety. These are matters better settled by the mix of professionals and lay people who sit on professional regulators’ boards, rather than by ministers. – Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall  Labour’s health policies can be found in full here: https://www.labour.org.nz/our-policies/ |
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Yes. We want equitable health outcomes, that means measurable equity goals with public reporting and stable multi-year funding for kaupapa Māori and iwi-led providers.
This looks like meaningful Māori participation in health delivery, planning and oversight to achieve measurable health outcomes. We also can’t expect to deliver health equity if clinicians are not trained in how to welcome and serve Māori. We see this as both a Treaty obligation, and just good clinical practice. It’s crucial that all New Zealanders feel safe with their healthcare providers. – Health spokesperson Jessica Hammond Opportunity health policy can be found here: https://www.opportunity.org.nz/healthy_people |
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Te Pāti Māori strongly supports including Kawa Whakaruruhau as a requirement in nursing education and regulation.
Te Tiriti o Waitangi should guide all decision making in Aotearoa, and that is what our Te Tiriti entrenchment policy seeks to address. Te Pāti Māori’s full health policy can be found here and its Te Tiriti entrenchment policy here. |
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Yes. The Green Party supports kawa whakaruruhau as a core requirement in nursing education and regulation.
Honouring Te Tiriti means embedding cultural safety, tikanga and mātauranga Māori throughout the health workforce—not treating them as optional extras.  – Health spokesperson Hūhana Lyndon The Green Party’s full health policy can be found here: https://www.greens.org.nz/health_policy |
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 National’s health spokesperson, current Minister of Health Simeon Brown, refused to answer any of Kaitiaki’s questions, citing NZNO’s “politicising” of health in the lead up to the General Election. |
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The ACT Party’s health spokesperson Todd Stephenson did not answer questions due to “capacity constraints”. |
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No answers were received from New Zealand First’s health spokesperson Casey Costello. |
Responses published in the order they were received.