New Zealand Pharmacy Council Professional Competency Standards Expert Advisory Group.

Impact summary

In 2022, the New Zealand Pharmacy Council determined that it would revise its professional competence standards with reference to Crtical Tiriti Analysis - an original policy evaluation measure I developed with colleagues Came and McCreanor in 2020. Its intent was to ensure that its legal obligations in relation to the Treaty of Waitangi were met. The Council appointed me to an Expert Advisory Committee to help draft the revised standards and to review public submissions on the draft. The Group met on 7 occasions in 2022 and approved final standards for registration as a pharmacist to be gazetted in 2023.

Research and engagement activities leading to impact

Critical Tiriti Analysis was developed and first published in:

Came, H., O’Sullivan, D. and McCreanor, T., ‘Introducing Critical Treaty Policy Analysis through a retrospective review of the New Zealand Primary Health Care Strategy’. Ethnicities, 6 January 2020. (DOI) 10.1177/1468796819896466.

Further publications which explicitly supported my contribution to the Expert Advisory Committee were:

Came, H., O’Sullivan, D., and McCreanor, T., and Kidd, J. ‘The WAI 2575 - Waitangi Tribunal Report: Implications for decolonising health systems’. Health and Human Rights Journal Vol. 22(1), 19 June 2020.

Came, H., O’Sullivan, D., and McCreanor, T., and Kidd, J. ‘The WAI 2575 - Waitangi Tribunal Report: Implications for decolonising health systems’. Health and Human Rights Journal Vol. 22(1), 19 June 2020.

O’Sullivan, D., Came, H., Mcreanor, T. and Kidd, J. ‘A Critical Review of the Cabinet Circular on Treaty of Waitangi and te Tiriti o Waitangi Advice for Ministers’. Ethnicities. Published December 2021.
https://doi.org/10.1177/14687968211047902

Research outputs associated with the impact

As above.

Researcher involvement

I am one of the two senior authors responsible for the development of Critical Tiriti Analysis. I was one of six members of the Expert Advisory Group and share responsibility for recommending all competency standards to the Pharmacy Council. I was one of two Group members with expertise on the Treaty of Waitangi and share disproportionate responsibility for the Treaty of Waitangi Standard.

Outcomes of research leading to impact

The articles listed above.

Beneficiaries of the impact

The Pharmacy Council is responsible to the Minister of Health for assuring public safety in relation to pharmacy practice. The competency standards which my research directly informed, and on which I advised, are intended to contribute to public safety in a general sense and in a specific sense, in terms of my contribution, to Maori peoples clinical and cultural safety. There is a benefit to the professional pharmacist in terms of the guide to professional practice that the standards require. Universities involved in their professional training benefit from the curriculum guidance that the standards provide.

Details of the impact achieved

The impact is that the Pharmacy Council accepted my research and subsequent contribution to its deliberations which it published (see below) in 2022. My published research is referenced, and my deliberative contributions reflected in the requirements for professional registration as a pharmacist.

Impact date	2022
Category of impact	Public policy Impact
Impact level	National