At the 2026 Physiotherapy NZ conference, Board te Poari Principal Professional Advisor Maarama Davis presented on the issues raised by the Physiotherapist Lived Experiences survey and how to address them. The video version of this presentation can be found here.
With our recent survey on health reporting receiving more than a thousand responses and hundreds of requests for further information we’ve decided to take a deep dive into health conditions and notifications. In this webinar, our Registrar James Dunne spoke about what constitutes a health issue, what’s involved in a
This episode is the last of three in which Board Te Poari professional advisor Maarama Davis talks with intersex activist and counsellor, Mani Mitchell MNZM. Mani is a Rainbow‐identifying person who has devoted much of their life to educating people about the lived reality of people who are non‐binary, lecturing at
This episode is the second of three in which Board Te Poari professional advisor Maarama Davis talks with intersex activist and counsellor, Mani Mitchell MNZM. Mani is a Rainbow‐identifying person who has devoted much of their life to educating people about the lived reality of people who are non‐binary, lecturing at
This episode is the first of three in which Board Te Poari professional advisor Maarama Davis talks with intersex activist and counsellor, Mani Mitchell MNZM. Mani is a Rainbow‐identifying person who has devoted much of their life to educating people about the lived reality of people who are non‐binary, lecturing
This episode is on the subject of cultural safety and cultural competence and how they relate to Pacific peoples, either as kiritaki patients or as practitioners. This conversation was recorded on 26th May, 2026 and features Board te Poari professional advisor Maarama Davis and two special guests from the School
This episode is the audio version of our webinar on the new Cultural safety and cultural competence standard which came into force on 1 May 2026. Principal Professional Advisor Maarama Davis talks with physiotherapist and working party member Sheree Tikao‐Harkess about what the changes mean, how to implement them in
This episode is one of a series of short podcasts from a recent conversation between Board te Poari professional advisor, Damon Newrick and Jessie Snowdon. Jessie is a physiotherapist the founder and director of On the Go Physio. She graduated from Otago University in 1998 and has worked in Christchurch,
In this episode Board te Poari Chief Professional Advisor Damon Newrick talks to Dr. Karaitiana Taiuru about Māori data sovereignty in the context of digital health. Dr Karaitiana Taiuru, director of Taiuru & Associates is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s leading voices on Māori data sovereignty and digital technology ethics. He works at the intersection of tikanga Māori, mātauranga Māori,
This episode is one of a series of short podcasts from a recent conversation between Board Te Poari professional advisor Damon Newrick and Jessie Snowdon. Jessie is a physiotherapist and the founder and director of On The Go Physio. She graduated from Otago University in 1998 and has worked in
This episode is one of a series of short podcasts from a recent conversation between Board Te Poari professional advisor Damon Newrick and Jessie Snowdon. Jessie is a physiotherapist and the founder and director of On The Go Physio. She graduated from Otago University in 1998 and has worked in
This episode is the audio version of our recent webinar on the new Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct and features Board te Poari chief professional advisor, Damon Newrick in conversation with Professor Lynley Anderson who specialises in bioethics in health care education and was the lead author for the
