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The consumer advisory group te kāhui mahi ngātahi was established to carry out the following functions.

  • Advise the board and chief executive on strategic issues, priorities and frameworks from a consumer perspective. 
  • Identify key issues for consumers and organisations, such as:
    • responsiveness of existing providers to patients/consumers/families/whānau
    • strategic direction of Commission programmes
    • measuring and examining safety and quality.
  • Engage with the Commission consumer network kōtuinga kiritaki, national and international clinical advisory groups and the wider health and disability sector on our consumer engagement activities and interests.

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Terms of reference

The terms of reference for the consumer advisory group te kāhui mahi ngātahi can be downloaded here:

Minutes

Minutes 2025

Minutes 2024

  • 12 November 2024 Minutes of Consumer advisory group Te kāhui mahi ngātahi meeting  (PDF 316KB | DOCX 105KB)
  • 20 September 2024 Minutes of Consumer advisory group Te kāhui mahi ngātahi meeting  (PDF 313KB | DOCX 109KB)
  • 25 July 2024 Minutes of Consumer advisory group Te kāhui mahi ngātahi meeting (PDF 407KB | DOCX 1.4MB)
  • 31 May 2024 Minutes of Consumer advisory group Te kāhui mahi ngātahi meeting  (PDF 247KB | DOCX 91KB)
  • 5 April 2024 Minutes of Consumer advisory group Te kāhui mahi ngātahi meeting  (PDF 425KB | DOCX 575KB)
  • 9 February 2024 Minutes of Consumer advisory group Te kāhui mahi ngātahi meeting (PDF 1MB | DOCX 1.9MB)

Minutes 2023

  • 10 November 2023 Minutes of Consumer advisory group Te kāhui mahi ngātahi meeting  (971KB, pdf | 1.3MB docx)
  • 7 September 2023 Minutes of Consumer advisory group Te kāhui mahi ngātahi meeting  (605KB, pdf | 435KB, docx)
  • 29 May 2023 Minutes of Consumer advisory group Te kāhui mahi ngātahi meeting  (537KB, pdf | 133KB, docx)
  • 4 April 2023 Minutes of Consumer advisory group Te kāhui mahi ngātahi meeting  (180KB, pdf | 83KB, docx)
  • 10 February 2023 Minutes of Consumer advisory group Te kāhui mahi ngātahi meeting  (494KB, pdf | 163KB, docx)

Minutes 2022

  • 15 November 2022. Minutes of Consumer advisory group Te kāhui mahi ngātahi meeting  (347KB, pdf | 146KB, docx)
  • 4 October 2022. Minutes of Consumer advisory group Te kāhui mahi ngātahi meeting (246KB, pdf | 147KB, docx)
  • 16 August 2022. Minutes of Consumer advisory group Te kāhui mahi ngātahi meeting  (269KB, pdf | 152KB, docx)
  • 28 June 2022. Minutes of Consumer advisory group Te kāhui mahi ngātahi meeting (273KB, pdf | 135KB, docx)
  • 17 May 2022. Minutes of Consumer advisory group Te kāhui mahi ngātahi meeting (175KB, pdf | 129KB, docx)
  • 29 March 2022. Minutes of Consumer advisory group Te kāhui mahi ngātahi meeting  (193KB, pdf |  117KB, docx)
  • 10 February 2022. Minutes of Consumer advisory group Te kāhui mahi ngātahi meeting  (216KB, pdf | 122KB, docx)

Minutes 2021

Minutes 2020

Minutes 2019

Past members

  • Martine Abel-Williamson 
  • Muriel Tunoho
  • Rowena Lewis 
  • Frank Bristol 
  • Ngatamaine Mareko-Johnson
  • Boyd Broughton 
  • Mary Schnackenberg 
  • Delphina Soti 
  • Russ Aiton 
  • Angie Smith

Our members

Jodie Bennett (Kāti Kuri, Kāi Tahu)

Jodie (Kāti Kurī and Kāi Tahu) is the Peer Strategic Lead for Pathways, a national mental health and addictions service provider. 
 
Her own lived experience and subsequent positive recovery outcome have led to a passion to help and support others to navigate their own journey of recovery from mental distress. 
 
The kindness and support shown to Jodie, particularly access to Peer Support workers as part of her recovery journey, led to a change in career from corporate communications, lobbying and public relations to using her skills and networking abilities to help others through collaboration, co-design and Lived Experience leadership. 
 
Jodie found a lot of healing in reconnecting to her culture and te ao Māori. This reconnection has assisted greatly in connecting well with iwi and whānau and addressing some of the inequities for Māori with mental health and addictions. 
 
Having two neurodiverse children has led to another of Jodie’s strong areas of interest and she is particularly interested in giving voice to her community. 
 
Jodie is delighted to have extended her term on the rōpū for a further three years and looks forward to sharing her expertise at a governance level. 

Lisa Lawrence (Nelson)

Lisa lives in Nelson, where she has strong connections with the voices and perspectives of provincial/rural communities and Māori hapori. Lisa’s lived experience includes her experience of maternal health and mental health services, and support for her father and other family members. Her consumer advisor experience includes being a lay representative on the New Zealand Psychologists Board, a Māori consumer representative for specific New Zealand College of Midwives audit/review projects, a member and chair of the Pharmac consumer advisory committee and a current member of the Māori advisory committee to the Nelson Bays Primary Health board.

Lisa feels it is important for those who can contribute and represent the consumer voice to do so, and for this representation to expand so more diverse and experienced people can add their thoughts and aspirations to the kōrero over time.  

Lisa feels the code of expectations for health entities’ engagement with consumers and whānau increases opportunities to for consumers to shape health service provision. She also recognises the key role of Te Tāhū Hauora in this work. Both factors have motivated her to join Te Kāhui Mahi Ngātahi Consumer Advisory Group. 

Published: 22 Oct 2021 Modified: 8 Dec 2025