Health New Zealand

Health New Zealand

Te Whatu Ora

HealthNZ  www.tewhatuora.govt.nz 

Changing the system
Te huri i te punaha

Find out how we're transforming the health system to care for the wellbeing of people, their whānau and communities.

About the health reforms

New Zealand has a high-quality publicly funded health system and a highly skilled, dedicated and professional health workforce. But we know there are opportunities to make improvements. We need to build a future health system that will perform better for all of us.

Transforming the health system will create a more equitable, accessible, cohesive and people-centred system that will improve the health and wellbeing of all New Zealanders.

Partnerships and Te Tiriti principles will be woven throughout the future system and all it does. There will be strong expectations across our future health system to deliver care that will achieve better health outcomes for Māori and other groups who have not always been well served.

We’re transforming the health system to better:

meet the complex demands of a growing population
address the persistent inequalities experienced by Māori
ensure greater access, experience and outcomes for those traditionally not well served by the system – Māori, Pasifika and Disabled People
make use of modern technology and develop new and innovative ways of working
focus on keeping people, their whānau and their communities well and out of hospitals – not just caring for them when they get sick.