Funding to Māori Health Providers 2019/20 to 2023/24

This report shows information on funding to Māori health providers by the Ministry of Health, Health New Zealand, and the disestablished Māori Health Authority for the period 2019/20 to 2023/24. This report follows on from our reports in 2017 and every year from 2021, on the same topic. These reports are part of our monitoring of Whakamaua: Māori Health Action Plan 2020-2053 and the proposed Māori Health Strategy.

Highlights include:

• funding to Māori health providers increased from $529.8 million in 2019/20 to $999.8 million in 2023/24, an increase of $469.9 million or 88.7% (see Table 3)
• although funding to Māori health providers is increasing, it remains a small but increasing part of Vote Health. It has increased from 3.0% in 2019/20 to 4.4% in 2023/24.
• This report differs from previous reports as it now includes data broken down by major service groups. This enables us to see in which areas funding has increased. The top five of 33 major service groups are reported on. These five groups accounted for 81.7% of total funding to Māori health providers in 2023/24.

The top five major service groups reported on are: mental health, Hauora Māori, Primary Health Organisations (PHOs), Public health, and Other community services.