Don’t Just SAY It Matters Topic: Cancer Organisation: National Screening Unit, Ministry of Health, New Zealand Location: New Zealand Dates: 2007 to 2013 Budget: NZ$2 million per annum Website: www.nsu.govt.nz Contact: Graeme Smart Email: Graeme_smart@moh.govt.nz Telephone: +64 9 850 900 Overview ‘Don’t Just SAY It Matters’ addresses ethnicity-based health inequalities in New Zealand. It aims to increase cervical screening amongst New Zealand’s Maori and Pacific women by creating an understanding of the importance of screening and enhancing the service to support uptake. Funded by the New Zealand National Screening Unit, the three-phase programme launched in September 2007 and is ongoing until 2013. Phase One aimed to start c

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