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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

Rahinga: 1.18MB

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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

Rahinga: 1.37MB

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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

Rahinga: 1.27MB

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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

Rahinga: 1.01MB

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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

Rahinga: 1.23MB

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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

Rahinga: 1.26MB

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Statement of claim (SOC)

Wai No: 2630
Claim: the Māori Health (Te Tau Ihu) claim
Date Received: 14 Mar 17
Claimant: Harvey Ruru
Representing: Te Tau Ihu 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 2630, the Māori Health (Te Tau Ihu) claim

15 May 2017

Rahinga: 1.16MB

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Statement of claim (SOC)

Wai No: 2646
Claim: the Maungarongo Marae Health claim
Date Received: 13 Mar 17
Claimant: Taipari Munro
Representing: Whatitiri Maori Reserves Trust
Concerning:The claim concerns the failure of the Crown to provide for the healthcare of Māori at Papakainga Marae of Maungarongo. The claimant alleges that the Crown has breached the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi by failing to: • Provide a health clinic or even health services to the marae Papakainga at Maungarongo Marae; • Allow development of Poroti Springs for its healing properties, by separating the springs from the Marae and running a main state road through the middle of the land, and right over the head waters of Poroti Springs; and • Prevent storm water and logging truck runoff from the roadway polluting the headwaters of Poroti Springs.

Wai 2646, the Maungārongo Marae Health claim

15 May 2017

Rahinga: 1.19MB

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Statement of claim (SOC)

Wai No: 2623
Claim: the New Zealand Māori Council Health claim
Date Received: 18 Apr 17
Claimant: Cletus Maanu Paul, Desma Kemp Ratima, Rihari Dargaville, Titewhai Harawira, William Jackson Representing: Mataatua District Maori Council, Takitimu District Maori Council, Te Tai Tokerau District Maori Council, Tamaki Makaurau District Maori Council, Tamaki ki te Tonga District Maori Council
Concerning: 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: • Recognise and give effect to Māori mana and tino rangatiratanga over health services; • Actively protect Māori health, wellbeing and quality of life in accordance with tikanga; • Uphold the partnership envisaged under Te Tiriti o Waitangi; and • Appropriately collaborate with Māori in all decisions related to Māori health services.

Wai 2623, the New Zealand Māori Council Health claim

15 May 2017

Rahinga: 1.27MB

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Statement of claim (SOC)

Wai No: 2643
Claim: the Mental Health, Addiction and Suicide claim
Date Received: 19 Jan 17
Claimant: Rosaria Hotere, Jane Hotere
Representing: Themselves and their whanau
Concerning: The claim concerns the failure of the Crown to provide for the healthcare of Māori in respect of mental health, alcohol and drug addiction and the prevention of suicide. The claimant alleges that the Crown has breached the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi by failing to: • Provide assistance to Māori in the form of healthcare for whanau members suffering from mental health including depression; • Provide appropriate assistance to whanau members who suffer from alcohol and drug addictions; • Provide assistance for whanau supporting alcohol and drug addicts in their rehabilitation; • Acknowledge the high incidence of suicide by whanau members; • Provide adequate assistance to whanau members after attempting to commit suicide; • Provide assistance through counselling to whanau after the loss of whanau members through suicide; and • Work with the whanau in decreasing suicide rate.

Wai 2643, the Mental Health, Addiction and Suicide claim

15 May 2017

Rahinga: 1.14MB