COVID-19 has highlighted the need to reform New Zealand's health system and ensure we are delivering quality services nationwide in an equitable and sustainable way. Our health system is staffed by dedicated and talented health professionals, but the system in which they are working is fragmented, inefficient, and financially unsustainable. For too long, New Zealanders' access to health services has been a postcode lottery. For decades, we have seen inequalities grow in the health outcomes for Māori and Pacific peoples. Today, that changes.