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
Really, you want me to share THAT! The minefield of shared access to patient data
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Really, you want me to share THAT! The minefield of shared access to patient data
Wednesday 22 May 2019, 02:17 PM

Patient notes contain information patients consider very private, so why is it being shared beyond the practice?
Lucy O’Hagan looks at the thorny issue of increased digital access to patients’ notes
For 10 per cent of patients with multiple chronic conditions and multiple providers, sharing information is great, and if I was one of them, I would c
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