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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1046/
- Published: 2024-09-10T18:30:32.000Z
- Updated: 2024-09-10T18:30:31.000Z
- Description: Christopher Luxon said health professionals were wrong to implement the policy and the health minister has now intervened.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: NZ Politics, Health

> The prime minister is accusing Hawke’s Bay health professionals of being “out of line” for prioritising young Māori and Pasifika.  
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> Young people aged 14 to 24 years are [no longer eligible for free GP and nurse services](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/527538/health-minister-shane-reti-intervenes-to-scrap-hawke-s-bay-health-policy-targeting-maori-and-pasifika?ref=goodoil.news) on the basis of these ethnicity groups.  
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> Christopher Luxon said health professionals were wrong to implement the policy and the health minister has now intervened.  
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> “We have a very simple approach to healthcare which is based off need, not ethnicity or race. That was out of line, out of order.  
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> “The minister made an intervention yesterday and they’ve confirmed that they’ve made the changes.”  
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> RNZ

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