Dr Anthony Jordan (Ngāti Wai) resigned from Pharmac’s board of directors last week, in response to a letter of expectation from the associate health minister David Seymour. In the letter, Seymour dismissed an existing expectation for Pharmac to embed Te Tiriti o Waitangi in its work.
Here, Anthony tells Siena Yates about his decision to quit, and why “needs-based” healthcare isn’t possible without Te Tiriti.
There’s been a small decline in youth vaping rates, but prevalence remains high, particularly among Māori and Pasifika students, and is still high by international standards. Read...
Exploring lived experience provides insights into the multiple ways that lack of affordability prevents access to medicines: directly, through interaction with other barriers to access including transport, by damaging trust and reducing acceptability of services, and by making participants less able to deal with mistakes made by health professionals.
General Practitioners Aotearoa opposes the Government’s recent decision to fund specific smoking cessation products, namely vaping kits. Read...
HEALTH SERVICES AND SYSTEMS
EQUITY
Exploring the impacts of the health system on minorities within the population, notably including Māori, Pacifica, Asians and LGBTQI.
DRUGS, DEVICE AND DIAGNOSTICS
PUBLIC HEALTH
DIGITAL HEALTH
TE TIRITI