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. 2025 Sep 19;138(1622):80-93.
doi: 10.26635/6965.6942.

Introducing the Hauora Māori Equity Toolkit for Specialist Healthcare Services (HMET-SHS)

Maira Patu  1 , Melissa Kerdemelidis  2 , Nadia Summers  3 , Nathan J Monk  4 , Amber Philpott  5 , Angela Beard  6 , Janet Geddes  7 , Scott Babington  8 , Stephen Mark  9 , Suzanne Pitama  10
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Introducing the Hauora Māori Equity Toolkit for Specialist Healthcare Services (HMET-SHS)

Maira Patu et al. N Z Med J. .

Abstract

The Hauora Māori Equity Toolkit for Specialist Healthcare Services (HMET-SHS) is an innovative tool designed to support equitable service delivery within specialist healthcare services. A multidisciplinary team reviewed the health system structure and developed the HMET-SHS in the form of a Periodic Service Review (PSR) for measuring and monitoring Hauora Māori outcomes in specialist health services. The HMET-SHS promises to reshape specialist healthcare services and champion equitable healthcare improvements for all New Zealanders.

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Conflict of interest statement

Some activities in the development of the Hauora Māori Equity Toolkit for Specialist Health Services were funded by the Ministry of Health through a Service Improvement stream. SB: Health New Zealand – Te Whatu Ora SMO CME funding. NS: Health New Zealand – Te Whatu Ora Planning and Funding provided partial financial support for manuscript writing, and at the time NS was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Otago. MK: Previous employment by the Canterbury District Health Board, which became part of Health New Zealand – Te Whatu Ora (current employer). MK was previously an honorary senior clinical lecturer at the University of Otago’s Māori/Indigenous Health Innovation (MIHI). SM: Chair of Centre for Health Outcomes Measures New Zealand (CHOMNZ), charitable trust NZ Prostate Cancer Registry.

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