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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Winging it
Wednesday 22 June 2022, 09:59 AM

The new health agencies come into being on 1 July; the date also marks International Chicken Wings Day [image: Peter Pharm on Unsplash]
Editor Barbara Fountain finds exhaustion and disillusionment dwelling beneath the surface when GPs gathered in Rotorua
Perhaps we’ll never know the Stephen who posted a question in the conference app at the recent Rotorua GP CME.
Stephen, in his apparent innocence,
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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