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Te Wiki o te Reo Māori 2023 starts on 11 September and from April next year, basic understanding of te reo Māori will be a requirement for all pharmacists under the new pharmacy competency standards. Ngā Kaitiaki o Te Puna Rongoā Māori Pharmacists’ Association president Mariana Hudson, who was involved in developing the new standards, discusses the importance of te reo for pharmacy practice and how the standards will support the consistent and ongoing use of it
In this article, Sue Frankland looks at the global problem of wastage of medications, including causes such as overprescribing and non-adherence. She also presents information from her master’s dissertation on how people understand, and respond to, medication expiration dates
Why recognising the signs of dehydration is important...
