8 Nov 2021

Health Ministry declines to share Māori vaccination data with Whānau Ora

From Midday Report, 12:17 pm on 8 November 2021

The Whānau Ora Commissioning Agency is considering further legal action against the Ministry of Health which has again declined to share individual Maori vaccination data with the Agency.

The High Court had ordered the Ministry to make its decision again, which it has saying it wants to work in partnership with Whānau Ora and was open to sharing some data.

But the Agency says without full access, finding unvaccinated Māori was akin to finding a needle in a haystack.

On Saturday, Whānau Ora providers deployed 70 workers and four mobile units to Northland, in an effort to boost low Māori vaccination rates there.

Māni Dunlop spoke to the agency's chair Merepeka Raukawa-Tait.