For older people and frail people, the long-term benefit of medicines reduces and the potential for harm from adverse effects increases. When the benefit–risk balance changes in this way, medicine review and optimisation are important to simplify the therapeutic regimen, reduce inappropriate medicines and minimise risks. In this article, pharmacist prescriber Linda Bryant uses two case studies to illustrate important considerations during medicine reviews
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Educate Peer Packages
Wednesday 28 May 2025, 12:49 AM

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Do you need to rev up your peer group? These peer group meeting activities are designed to help you get the most out of your meetings by identifying problems, coming up with solutions and putting new knowledge into action.
These Peer Packages are designed to work alongside a piece of reference material, which is agreed upon by the group before the meeting. For example, the peer group could independently read a New Zealand Doctor “How to Treat” article before their meeting, then base the Peer Package activity around what they learnt from that article.
These activities are useful for improving clinical practice and may help you meet your CPD requirements as they fit with the goals of the RNZCGP Te Wh, Educate small, BACK panel - grey
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