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The healthcare system in New Zealand does not adequately meet the needs of transgender people, but the Ministry of Health has met with the Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa (PATHA) to find ways to improve the system. PATHA proposes improvements to transgender healthcare, including the creation of a new transgender health resourcing hub that
operates under a Te Tiriti o Waitangi framework, provides national coordination of a distributed model of care, and actively works to resource primary care and gender-affirming surgeries. The proposed changes aim to make healthcare for transgender people more equitable, accessible and cohesive by utilising peer health navigators, education and professional development, healing- focussed care, and transgender community leadership and accountability to make healthcare more equitable, accessible and cohesive for transgender people. The aim is to take the best practices from existing regional programs and implement them throughout the entire country.
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
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