While some changes to the NCSP have already been implemented, the minister said she would introduce new laws for auditing the programme and to cover the mandatory reporting of bad practice and suspension of practitioners.
Meanwhile, Alliance health spokeswoman Phillida Bunkle said the report was "not broad enough" and she would have liked to see more direction on how to operate the screening programme into the future.
"It's not broad enough in its solutions."
The report was strong on issues it addressed but there were areas it did not focus on, such as patients' rights.
"It gives us a blueprint of what needs to happen without giving us a blueprint of how it's going to happen, so in a sense it throws that back into the political arena, back to the minister," she told NZPA.
The report backed independent monitoring and auditing but did not say where the programme needed to be located to be effective.
"It leaves it implicitly with the ministry. That means that the people who created the problem are still in charge of it unless there's a political decision to put it somewhere else," she said.
- NZPA
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