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Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022

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44: Health of Disabled People Strategy

You could also call this:

"A plan to improve health care for disabled people and their families"

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The Minister has to make a plan called the Health of Disabled People Strategy. You will see this plan is used to help health organisations improve health outcomes for disabled people and their families. The plan must look at how health outcomes are currently for disabled people and how the health sector is performing. The plan also needs to think about what will happen in the medium and long term to affect the health of disabled people. It must set out what is important for services and health sector improvements for disabled people, including training for workers. This is not a complete list of what can be in the plan, as other things can be included too. The purpose of the Health of Disabled People Strategy is to guide health entities to improve health outcomes for you if you are disabled, and your family and whānau. You can expect the plan to help make things better for disabled people and their families. The Minister is in charge of making this plan happen.

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Key health documents: Health strategies

44Health of Disabled People Strategy

  1. The Minister must prepare and determine a Health of Disabled People Strategy.

  2. The purpose of the Health of Disabled People Strategy is to provide a framework to guide health entities in improving health outcomes for disabled people and their families and whānau.

  3. The Health of Disabled People Strategy must—

  4. contain an assessment of the current state of health outcomes for disabled people and the performance of the health sector in relation to disabled people and their families and whānau; and
    1. contain an assessment of the medium and long-term trends that will affect the health of disabled people and health sector performance; and
      1. set out priorities for services and health sector improvements relating to the health of disabled people, including workforce development.

        1. Subsection (3) does not limit what may be included in the Health of Disabled People Strategy.