Āti Awa Toa Hauora Partnership Board has partnered with Stroke Aotearoa and Arthritis NZ Mateponapona Aotearoa to better understand how stroke and gout affect whānau and what services and support would help. Following an online survey that ran for 6 weeks at the beginning of the year, we gathered experience from whanau Māori in the Wellington rohe (Pōneke/ Porirua/ Kāpiti/ Te Awakairangi).

Te Māra o Hine‑Raraunga (the report) was commissioned in partnership between Āti Awa Toa Iwi Māori Partnership Board and Manatū Hauora to identify culturally appropriate whānau voice data storage and protection solutions that also enable appropriate sharing and utilisation of whānau voice data. This work recognises that for whānau voice to be used effectively to set local and regional health priorities for Māori, trusted processes that uphold the mana of those voices are required.

This report affirms that whānau voice is not only critical to understanding the challenges of the health system, but also offers the pathways to solutions.