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
Rural champion’s legacy lives on: General practice in a paradise for holidaymakers and partygoers
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Rural champion’s legacy lives on: General practice in a paradise for holidaymakers and partygoers
Wednesday 21 June 2023, 01:30 AM

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With its ever-changing demographics, Queenstown and surrounding districts make for a busy and complex life in general practice. Zahra Shahtahmasebi reports
The legacy of the late Pat Farry – the rural specialist GP who founded Queenstown Medical Centre in 1972 – lives on today, says the practice’s chief e
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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