Equity Adjuster Score algorithm
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      From: Y.C. Cheng
      
    
    Dear Health New Zealand,
Could you please advise the full/complete algorithm used for the Equity Adjuster Score, which prioritises "patients according to five areas; clinical priority, time spent on the waitlist, geographic location (isolated areas), ethnicity (specifically Māori or Pacific people) and deprivation level." (source: https://www.hinz.org.nz/news/642771/Auck...)
Yours faithfully,
Y.C. Cheng
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        Health New Zealand
      
    
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        From: hnzOIA
        Health New Zealand
      
    
     
 Kia ora Y.C Cheng 
  
 Thank you for your email of 20 June 2023, asking for the following
 information under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act):
  
 "Could you please advise the full/complete algorithm used for the Equity
 Adjuster Score, which prioritises "patients according to five areas;
 clinical priority, time spent on the waitlist, geographic location
 (isolated areas), ethnicity (specifically Māori or Pacific people) and
 deprivation level."
  
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        From: Mark Fenwick (ADHB)
      
    
    Kia ora YC Cheng
 
Here is our response to your request.
 
Ngā mihi,
 
Mark
 
Mark Fenwick (he/him) 
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