New Zealand is pushing Māori patients up surgery waiting lists to fight inequality

The country is rolling out a new ‘equity adjustor’. This uses 4 factors to decide patient priority: ethnicity, geographic location, level of deprivation and time spent on the waiting list. The numbers are crunched in an algorithm which weighs them differently according to the type of operation to give an overall score. #newzealand #māori #healthcare #inequality #surgery #waitinglist