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
Budget 2017: Sad, cross, frustrated, disappointed: Reaction from the sector
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Budget 2017: Sad, cross, frustrated, disappointed: Reaction from the sector
Friday 26 May 2017, 10:07 PM

This year’s Budget is not flush with new funding for health. New money for mental health and for the roll out of the bowel cancer screening programme are the big spending items. New Zealand Doctor staff seek feedback from the sector about what the Budget spending might mean for them
Health minister is a grand failure, says frustrated PHO boss, John Macaskill-Smith
Health minister Jonathan Coleman has been a “grand failure” for the health sector and it’s reflected in the Budget this year,
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