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
The Anzac legacy
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The Anzac legacy
Friday 27 April 2018, 06:52 AM

The Ngāpuhi Nursing Sisters who travelled across Northland tending the sick, as reported in the New Zealand Herald in 1901
Nurses on the battle fronts fought for recognition, and then, as now, were under-valued for the role they played, writes Barbara Docherty
As I write this, it is Anzac Day so first, there is my annual compulsion to attend the dawn parade and pay my respects to those who were compelled one
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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