Māori

Abbie Barrett, community pharmacist in Te Puke, reports back on a national conference on empowering kaumātua 

For Māori Language Week, the Māori Language Commission has provided useful resources for pharmacies, while alerting readers to pharmacists from the 1880s who were well versed in te reo

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Claire Stott is a clinical pharmacist working at Tauranga Hospital. She’s also a newly elected member of the executive committee for Ngā Kaitiaki o te Puna Rongoā o Aotearoa – the Māori Pharmacists’ Association

New research suggests the ability to speak te reo Māori may be a protective factor for developing type 2 diabetes 

Māori and Pasifika make up just 1 per cent of pharmacists in New Zealand, and more work needs to be done in schools to nudge students towards a career in pharmacy, write members of Ngā Kaitiaki o Te Puna Rongoā o Aotearoa, The Māori Pharmacists’ Association 

University of Otago School of Pharmacy professional practice fellow Carla Dillon talks cultural competency and how it relates to her own experiences moving from Canada to New Zealand

More than a decade on and Māori still endure large inequi­ties around prescription med­icines, an updated report for Pharmac says

Many of the elderly Māori patients Christchurch pharmacist Brendon McIntosh regularly interacts with have almost lost faith in the health system