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
Decision delay on disability services seen as opportunity by the disability sector
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Decision delay on disability services seen as opportunity by the disability sector
Monday 17 May 2021, 03:38 PM

Disabled Persons Assembly chief executive Prudence Walker expects workshops to be held on disability services reform
Members of the New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa team work through the official documents to find out what we know about the proposed health sector changes and talk to folk in the sector about what’s happening
What we know..., THE QUESTION, where disability support services best fit, has been delayed until September.
The final report of the Health and Disability System
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