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
GP aghast at secrecy of police power to demand to see patients’ medical records
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GP aghast at secrecy of police power to demand to see patients’ medical records
Wednesday 9 September 2020, 10:34 AM

Palmerston North GP David Hill says police use of medical-records search warrants is secretive and open to the risk of “fishing expeditions”
Simon Maude delves into a little-known power police have had since 2012, to force practices to hand over patients’ record
A Palmerston North general practice has been hit several times in the past year with police orders to hand over patients’ medical records.
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