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What barriers, if any, remain to collecting complete ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment pathway data?

Answered Question 32203 (2026)
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Asked by

Ayesha Verrall

List MP · Labour Party

Question

  • What barriers, if any, remain to collecting complete ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment pathway data?

Answered by

Hon Simeon Brown

Member for Pakuranga · National Party · Minister of Health

Answer

I am advised that Health New Zealand's Health Data Platform (HDP) work programme aims to combine data feeds to enable the monitoring of diagnosis and treatment pathways for cancer and other conditions. I am further advised that the HDP and cancer services metric suite, once completed, will provide operational data at a service level (e.g., gynaecology cancer) and ultimately at cancer type level (e.g., ovarian cancer).