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Hearing - Party Submission/Memo

C Hirschfeld / T Sinclair (Wai 861, 914, 2244 & 2071), Memorandum of counsel filing submissions on the Wakatu case, 15 May 2017

Index to the Wai 1040 combined record of inquiry for Te Paparahi o Te Raki

16 May 2017

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Statement of claim (SOC)

Wai No: 2640
Claim:
Date Received: 14 Mar 17
Claimant: Ranginganana Wade
Representing: Ngati Wahiao Maori Committee
Concerning:The claim concerns the failure of the Crown to provide for the healthcare of Ngati Wahiao Māori. The claimant alleges that the Crown has breached the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi by failing to provide: • Appropriate, convenient and available health services to those in Whakarewarewa; • Subsidised medical services and prescriptions for Māori; • Adequate dental care for Māori children in Rotorua; and • Funding to Rotorua Māori health service providers equal to Rotorua Health Board providers.

Wai 2640, the Ngāti Wahiao claim

15 May 2017

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Statement of claim (SOC)

Wai No: 2624
Claim: the Alcohol Healthcare claim
Date Received: 21 Feb 17
Claimant: David Ratu
Representing: Turehou Maori Wardens ki Otara Charitable Trust
Concerning: The claim concerns the failure of the Crown to provide for the healthcare of Māori in respect of the sale, supply and consumption of alcohol in Aotearoa. The claimant alleges that the Crown has breached the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi by failing to: • Enact and/or implement all of the policies and recommendations made by the Law Commission in its 2010 Report, Alcohol In Our Lives: Curbing the Harm; and • Ensure the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012 is consistent with Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

Wai 2624, the Alcohol Healthcare claim

15 May 2017

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Statement of claim (SOC)

Wai No: 2631
Claim: the Māori Health (Aotea) claim
Date Received: 14 Mar 17
Claimant: John Hooker
Representing: Aotea District Maori Council
Concerning: The claim concerns the failure of the Crown to provide for the healthcare of Māori in respect of their susceptibility to disease, disproportionate loss of life and loss of good health. The claimant alleges the Crown has breached the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi by failing to: • Provide health services necessary to stem the disproportionate loss of life and loss of good health amongst Māori; • Provide accessible services for good health; • Recognise Māori have difficulties in accessing doctors or specialists services; • Address the high cost of transport and consultation fees; • Address the unclear or misunderstood medical information provided to Māori in relation to serious illness; and • Provide equal funding to Māori health service providers.

Wai 2631, the Māori Health (Aotea) claim

15 May 2017

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Statement of claim (SOC)

Wai No: 2636
Claim: the Māori Health (Taipana) claim
Date Received: 14 Mar 17
Claimant: Mereti Taipana
Representing:
Concerning: The claim concerns the failure of the Crown to provide adequate access to medical services for Māori. The claimant alleges the Crown has breached the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi by failing to: • Provide health services necessary to stem the disproportionate loss of life and loss of good health amongst Māori; • Provide accessible services for good health; • Recognise Māori have difficulties in accessing doctors or specialists services; • Address the high cost of transport and consultation fees; • Address the unclear or misunderstood medical information provided to Māori in relation to serious illness; • Provide equal funding to Māori health service providers; • Acknowledge or understand the concept of whakama.

Wai 2636, the Māori Health (Taipana) claim

15 May 2017

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Statement of claim (SOC)

Wai No: 2642
Claim: the Racism and Health claim
Date Received: 24 Jan 17
Claimant: Riria Reuma Dolly 'Lily' Stone
Representing: Herself, her whanau and hapu of Ngati Kahungunu
Concerning:The claim concerns institutional and interpersonal racism within New Zealand and how that racism has negatively affected the health of Māori in respect of cancer. The claimant alleges that the Crown: • Does not provide Māori with the opportunity to have adequate input into health policy and practices which effect them; • Gives Māori public health a low priority and visibility in core policy documents; • Takes into account evidence which is not appropriate for Māori in designing health policy; • Employs policy makers and senior managers who have no professional requirement or obligation to have cultural or political competency; • Lacks the ability to effectively assess Māori needs and aspirations, and has limited internal consultation processes; • Designed and implemented health interventions and policies that fail to take into account the health effects of racism; and • Has, through institutionalised and interpersonal racism, failed to provide equal access to health care for Māori in respect of cancer.

Wai 2642, the Racism and Health claim

15 May 2017

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Statement of claim (SOC)

Wai No: 2638
Claim: the Oral Health claim
Date Received: 20 Feb 17
Claimant: Pauline Kopu
Representing: Herself, Ngati Porou and Te Whanau-a-Apanui
Concerning: The claim concerns the failure of the Crown to provide for the healthcare of Māori in respect of oral health and the disproportionately high number of Māori with poor oral health. The claimant alleges that the Crown has breached the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi by: • Allowing the policy, practices and socioeconomic factors which underlie poor Māori oral health; • Failing to adequately address the causes of oral health problems among Māori; • And allowing Māori to be disproportionately over-represented in respect of poor oral health.

Wai 2638, the Oral Health claim

15 May 2017

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Statement of claim (SOC)

Wai No: 2628
Claim: the Māori Health (Haitana) claim
Date Received: 13 Apr 17
Claimant: Glenn Haitana, Matiu Haitana
Representing: their whanau and the hapu of Ngati Ruakopiri and Ngati Tumanuka
Concerning: The claim concerns the failure of the Crown to provide for the healthcare of Māori. The claimants allege that the Crown has breached the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi by failing to provide: • Adequate funding for Māori health care workers; • Proper support services to Māori health care providers; • Affordable health treatment and drugs for Māori; • Culturally appropriate tikanga-based health and life skills programmes to Māori prison inmates; • Adequate recognition of the emotional, physical and spiritual needs of Māori prison inmates; and • Adequate health services for Māori in rural communities.

Wai 2628, the Māori Health (Haitana) claim

15 May 2017

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Statement of claim (SOC)

Wai No: 2635
Claim: the Tairāwhiti Methamphetamine claim
Date Received: 29 Mar 17
Claimant: Mark West and Tuta Ngarimu
Representing:
Concerning: The claim concerns the failure of the Crown to provide for the healthcare of Māori in the Tairāwhiti region who are affected by methamphetamine. The claimants allege that the Crown has breached the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi by failing to provide: • Adequate and sufficient healthcare funding in order to address, enable and provide for the needs of Tairāwhiti Māori; • Tairāwhiti Māori methamphetamine addicts with an accessible residential drug rehabilitation facility; • Adequate services to help those affected by drugs; and • Adequate recognition of the methamphetamine epidemic.

Wai 2635, the Tairāwhiti Methamphetamine claim

15 May 2017

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Statement of claim (SOC)

Wai No: 2645
Claim: the Canterbury Health claim
Date Received: 20 Feb 17
Claimant: Susan McKenna
Representing: Maori living in Canterbury who suffer ill-health
Concerning: The claim concerns the failure of the Crown in allowing a disproportionate number of Māori in Canterbury to suffer from ill-health. The claimant alleges that the Crown has breached the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi by failing to: • Ensure that Māori have good health; and • Ensure that Canterbury District Health Board fulfils its duty and statutory obligations owed to Māori as required under sections 3 and 4 of the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000.

Wai 2645, the Canterbury Health claim

15 May 2017

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