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
Coalition agreements: Riding roughshod over treaties, laws and healthcare
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Coalition agreements: Riding roughshod over treaties, laws and healthcare
Wednesday 29 November 2023, 04:28 PM

Repeal of the Smokefree legislation does not take into account the millions of dollars spent on tobacco-related diseases [Image: lilartsy on Unsplash]
Frances Matthews takes aim at the new Government's coalition agreements and the impacts some of the policies will have on the lives of New Zealanders
No new funding is going into primary care, despite the lamentable state of both primary and secondary care as they flounder towards catastrophe
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