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
It just does not add up: Pay equity vs pay parity equals disparities for primary care nurses
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It just does not add up: Pay equity vs pay parity equals disparities for primary care nurses
Wednesday 10 May 2023, 01:00 AM

Primary care nurses seek pay parity with their peers in hospitals [Image: NZD]
The pay equity dispute that all nurses have long had with the Government has complicated the pay parity problem for nurses in primary care, writes Tamah Clapham
To understand the complex pay disparity dispute in nursing, it is important to understand that New Zealand nurses (via the unions NZNO and the Public
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