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
Te Aka Whai Ora is dead, long live...whatever comes next
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Te Aka Whai Ora is dead, long live...whatever comes next
Wednesday 13 March 2024, 02:33 PM

Te Aka Whai Ora sent extra clinicians into the East Coast to help local kaupapa Māori providers in the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle. Pictured chief medical officer Rawiri McKree Jansen with the relief team members Kelly Stephenson, Bonnie Matehaere...
Journalist Alan Perrott was reporting almost daily on the turmoil that led up to the demise of Te Aka Whai Ora. You can find his reporting online at nzdoctor.co.nz. In the meantime, he reflects here on what went down.
Dr Reti never refers to the authority as Te Aka Whai Ora
It was impossible to know what Shane Reti was feeling as the last rites for Te Aka Whai
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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