An independent Delta Response Rapid Review, released today by the Ministry of Health, provides an overview of the perspective of key stakeholders on the Incident Management response by the Ministry of Health to the Delta outbreak, in the period August to December 2021.
It draws on feedback from the across the health sector and makes a number of recommendations to guide the response to future outbreaks.
The review also includes Ministry of Health data on COVID responses and international data on COVID trends up to December 2021.
The three main areas identified for improvement were:
- an equity first approach for Māori, Pacific peoples and the disabled community
- being more coordinated in our response
- and maintaining the COVID workforce into the future.
The Ministry thanks the interviewees and authors for the recommendations and is pleased to outline what’s been done in many areas to address the recommendations and learn from the Delta outbreak to help strengthen and improve future responses.
View the report and the Ministry’s response to its recommendations.
