Rejecting the Healthy Futures (Pae Ora) Amendment Bill

In this submission to the Parliamentary Health Committee, the Mental Health Foundation recommends this Bill be rejected because it removes:

• most of the legal mechanisms that support an equal Te Tiriti o Waitangi-based partnership with Māori, including the expression of tino rangatiratanga and equitable outcomes
• the health sector's focus on protecting and promoting health and wellbeing; equally prioritising mental and physical health; and valuing the views of people with lived experience of mental health challenges.