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"Equity is a co-requisite for excellence in healthcare alongside the goals of quality, safety, effectiveness and efficiency. Equitable health care is a matter of fairness, a concept that is fundamental to New Zealanders and to the organisation of our system of health care. Equity in these terms means providing equal healthcare to those who have the same health 'need'. Inequity is the failure to provide care to patients despite having the same health need."