Māori Health

Waitangi Tribunal findings that primary healthcare funding arrangements are anti-equity, and Māori rights have been breached, are not going to go away

Unichem Russell Street Pharmacy was recently presented with the Supreme Award at the Hawke's Bay Health Awards for its respiratory “warrant of fitness” initiative. 

A gala dinner was held on Saturday night for the Pharmaceutical Society New Zealand's annual conference where seven awards and fellowships were bestowed 

The Māori Pharmacists’ Association held its annual symposium in early June, attracting about 50 people. Discussions at the Auckland-based event included the status of rongoa Māori, institutional racism in the echelons of health bureaucracy and the benefits of hemp products

A new report from Pharmac further demonstrates that Māori are far less likely than Pākehā to receive appropriate medicines – and it is at least partly due to prescribers’ bias 

A Hawke’s Bay pharmacy inviting families of asthmatic Māori and Pasifika children to take part in an “warrant of fitness” check led to 80 per cent of children improving their asthma control

Using his skills to serve his own people has always been a dream for pharmacist Kevin Pewhairangi

A collaborative effort to improve gout management in Māori and Pacific patients has seen a Kapiti Coast pharmacy chosen as a finalist in the Health Quality and Safety Commission’s Whakakotahi Challenge

National Hauora Coalition chief executive Simon Royal believes better health outcomes for Māori rely on greater levels of Māori leadership and control of policy and delivery of services

Māori and Pasifika health advisory group members often find their health knowledge and expertise are denied and distrusted, researcher Heather Came says