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
A green new deal as medical devices go circular
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A green new deal as medical devices go circular
Tuesday 4 February 2020, 11:07 AM

Medsalv founder Oliver Hunt, 25, is a young entrepreneur passionate about stopping the health sector from clogging landfills and wasting dollars by throwing out potentially reusable medical devices
Nobody expects a patient’s pillowslip to be “single-use only”. But an estimated 1700 tonnes of equally reusable medical devices are tossed in landfills each year, says award-winning young entrepreneur Oliver Hunt. Fiona Cassie finds out more
Oliver Hunt is an engineer by profession, but medicine is in his blood. His 94-year-old grandmother and late grandfather were GPs, his mum is an endoc
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