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19 June 2024

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Wednesday 19 June 2024, 05:00 AM

Specialist GP Richard Lowe has an eclectic selection for his ideal dinner party guests including RNZCGP president Sam Murton [Image: NZD]

Auckland specialist GP Richard Lowe is part-owner of Mt Roskill’s GP Central. Last year, the 32-year-old Mt Eden resident helped form the Young GP Owners Alliance. Dr Lowe says he designed the group, which has now been renamed Emerging GP Owners Alliance, to strengthen clinician ownership for a new generation of GPs, provide a forum for exchanging innovative ideas, and encourage and support other doctors

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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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