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
Portals: Of no-brainers and no-nos
Wednesday 14 September 2022, 01:30 AM

Patients like their portal’s easy access to general practice care but also want consistency in the fees charged [image: Mihai Moisa on Unsplash]
In his second monthly column, Richard Medlicott takes on the thorny subject of patient portals
Many general practices face a conundrum when it comes to charging for time spent on the patient portal.
Most New Zealand practices run a patient p
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