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
‘Just a GP’ in the ‘lesser specialty’ – really? After all these years?
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‘Just a GP’ in the ‘lesser specialty’ – really? After all these years?
Friday 3 August 2018, 10:06 AM

General practice career progression may be as illusory as the pot of gold
Virginia McMillan considers the status of the GP career, 10 years after a prominent practitioner called it ‘a hole’
We have got to put it out there that we have done extra training, that general practice is a specialty
When Auckland GP Jan White studied medicin, Jan White, NZMA GP Council chair Jan White says “just a GP” is an expression ingrained in a generation of doctors
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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