"The university's achievements with its health workforce development policy is widely celebrated and the university is rightly very proud of those achievements," he said. I think everyone welcomes discussions about the health workforce, and those discussions need to be driven off health workforce data and health outcomes data." But he said any discussion about the future of the health workforce needed to be informed by Māori and Pasifika. "We can't possibly talk about the future make-up of the health workforce unless we're including the expert voices from those different perspectives." But the president of the Māori Medical Students' Association, Isaac Smiler, said students wanted to know now and were frustrated the vice-chancellor Harlene Hayne had so far refused to meet with them.

Source: Otago Daily Times September 03, 2020 23:03 UTC