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
Remembering Queen Elizabeth II A moderniser who steered the British monarchy into the 21st century
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Remembering Queen Elizabeth II A moderniser who steered the British monarchy into the 21st century
Wednesday 28 September 2022, 01:30 AM

Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II in 1959, wearing many of the historical royal jewels [image: Wikimedia Commons public domain]
Sean Lang looks at important moments in the life of Queen Elizabeth II, after her recent passing, and the way she balanced official and public duties, along with handling family crises
Her prime ministers often paid tribute to her political wisdom and knowledge
When the late historian Sir Ben Pimlott embarked on his 1996 biograp, Queen at NASA CR NASA on Wikimedia Commons.jpeg, Queen Elizabeth II in 2007 as she greets employees on her walk from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center mission control to a function, in Maryland, US
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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