New delegations for the associate Ministers of Health have been announced and responsibility for the Health Promotion Agency/Te Hiringa Hauora (HPA) has shifted from Hon Jenny Salesa to Hon Peeni Henare.
The full list of responsibilities is:
Associate Minister of Health: Hon Peeni Henare
Responsibility for policy and service delivery realting to:
- Māori health equity
- the Health Promotion Agency
- blood and organ donation (including the New Zealand Blood Service)
- diabetes
- other initiatives as agreed from time to time.
Associate Minister of Health: Hon Jenny Salesa
Reponsibility for policy and service delivery relating to:
- Pacific health equity
- problem gambling
- healthy school environments
- health of older people
- tobacco
- ethics committees
- special patients
- the Health Quality and Safety Commission
- HealthCERT and quality assurances (including Radiation Safety)
- Disability Support Services
- other initiatives as agreed from time to time.
Associate Minister of Health: Hon Julie Anne Genter
Responsibility for policy and service delivery relating to the following areas (with the exeption of remuneration issues, which are retained by the Minister of Health):
- climate change and health
- population health (built environments)
- women's health (including maternity services, breast and cervical cancer screening, and the health aspects of abortion)
- sexual health
- family and sexual violence
- public health (including immunisation, but excluding drinking water)
- other initiatives as agreed from time to time.