Submissions

Over the last few years Auckland Women’s Health Council has added our voice to the increasingly loud calls for inequities and disparities in women’s health to be addressed. In our submission on the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Bill we argued strongly for a women’s health strategy to be added to the health strategies to be developed under the new legislation. This is our submission on the women’s health strategy.

AWHC was invited to provide early input into the HDC’s review of the HDC Act 1994 and the Health and Disability Commissioner (Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights) Regulations 1996

Our oral submission on the Therapeutic Products Bill, emphasising the need for consumer representation, patient safety and better regulation of implantable medical devices. Our submission begins at 2:48.

Written submission on the Midwifery Council’s revised Scope of Midwifery Practice

Video of AWHC’s oral submission (starting at 35 seconds) on the Accident Compensation (Maternal Birth Injury and Other Matters) Amendment Bill presented to the Education and Workforce Select Committee on the 30th of March 2022.

AWHC's written submission on the Bill to extend ACC cover to include some birth injuries. AWHC welcomes and approves the move to extend ACC coverage to include birth injuries, but holds substantial concerns that the Bill as written does not go far enough. In particular, we are concerned that only a limited numbee or birth injuries will be covered by the ACC, while omitting other equally as disabling injuries.

On the 9^th of November, the Government published the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Bill, the draft legislation that will provide the legislative structure for the new health system. When enacted, this legislation will replace the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000 in its entirety. AWHC lodged a substantial submission on this critical piece of legislation in December 2021.

Over a period of about 18 months, AWHC was involved with supporting Renate Schütte’s Parliamentary petition requesting that the “House of Representatives amend the Health and Disability Commissioner Act 1994 to give complainants, and those that are the subject of complaints, the right to appeal decisions made by the Health and Disability Commissioner.”

AWHC’s submission on the Law Commission “Issues Paper” on surrogacy law reform, September 2021.

This submission on vaping is prepared by ASH. It takes a public health perspective by recognising the still high levels of smoking in the adult population. ASH identifies vaping as a strategy to reach the public health goal of achieving the Smokefree 2025 goal and to reduce the inequitable burden of disease that is experienced by Maori as a result of cigarette smoking. 

Submission of the Auckland Women’s Health Council on the consultation on the HPV Clincial Pathway.

Oral Submission on the Contraception, Sterilisation, and Abortion (Safe Areas) Amendment Bill- May 2021.

Crimes (Definition of Female Genital Mutilation) Amendment Bill- 2021.

Abortion Law Reform Submission- September 2019.

We responded to the following questions in the consultation document:

B13, B14, B16, B27, B35, C1, C4, C5, C11, C12, C13, C16, C52, C53

Our responses – in blue text – start at Question B13 on page 52 of 198 of the document.

AWHC Submission on Proposed Changes to the National Health Index (NHI) system.

Abortion Law Reform Submission from the Auckland Women’s Health Council to the Law Commission.

Health (National Cervical Screening Programme) Amendment Bill Submission from the Auckland Women’s Health Council.

New Zealand Health Research Strategy Discussion Document
Submission.

Introduction of Fit for Purpose Omics-based Technologies – Think Piece.

Submission on the review of the Health & Disability Commissioner Act 1994 & Code of Rights – 2014.

AWHC Submission on Draft SOPs for Health & Disability Ethics Committees – February 2012.

Submission on the review of the Health & Disability Commissioner Act 1994 & Code of Rights – 2009.