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
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From the COMMENT STREAM: Expensive vaccinations, ComCom criticism, doubts about AI and equity lacking
Tuesday 1 October 2024, 03:26 PM

Plunket nurses may soon be offering childhood vaccinations
Plunket vaccinators, monopoly claims, early morning queues and the spread of AI have got GPs posting on our online stories. Here’s a selection of what our readers thought of some of our recent articles
On…Plunket vaccination talks ‘ongoing’; GP leader critical of move (17 September). Specialist GP Geoff Cunningham from Whangārei is on the line: “So,
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