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
Social media makes a meal of it when workers behave badly – on or off duty
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Social media makes a meal of it when workers behave badly – on or off duty
Tuesday 15 September 2020, 10:04 AM

Airing grievances or being critical of others on social media is fraught with difficulty, says employment lawyer Sean O’Sullivan
SOUTH GP CME
Fiona Cassie relates some of the myriad ways health workers can come to grief using social media
Social media has blurred the distinction between behaving badly at work and doing so outside work hours, employment lawyer Sean O’Sullivan says.
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