Kia ora! Good health is one of the most important things you can have.

• Our health system can’t meet our health needs alone
• Too many things are falling through the cracks
• We need more community/agency synergies, and
• Someone to maintain our vision of wellness, above what the health dollars will allow

MAURI ORA, MAHI TAHI - Healthy Communities, Working Together

I stand for:    - keeping your health issues alive

                        - finding innovative ways

                        - to make them work

Top 5 Issues

1. We need a better PLAN FOR HEALTH
   The health sector alone cannot provide for all of our health needs. What we fail to plan, we plan to fail.
   
   In the new environment of working across sectors, inclusive of whole of community aspirations, we need to re-plan what might be achieved based on the demands and syndergies the future holds
   
2. Our OWN VISION, our communty's picture of wellbeing, needs to be firmly established and maintained so all stakeholders are a part of it and we're working together towards it.
   
3. We need to INCLUDE ALL, who have a part to play in our future health and wellbeing. Not just the health sector, not just the usual players.
   
   All parts of our community need to be a part of the solutions, especially those who have fallen through the cracks, or those who don't believe it is anything to do with them. Those that are already there, need better ways to be heard and maintain the issues and contributions they have to make.
4. GAPS - There are still too many things falling through the cracks - from the inequalities our communities experience, to the many issues we miss or fail to address.
   
   I stand for keeping health issues alive and finding innovative ways to make them work.
5. The TAX SPEND needs to be accounted for but not limit us to what our vision of health is.
   
   It should be seen as a cost effective investment in support of our future if used properly. Those who seek to pervert and abuse it should be accountable.

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I am one of few local public health experts