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
Scams, hacks and attacks: Hints to help protect your practice from cybercrime
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Scams, hacks and attacks: Hints to help protect your practice from cybercrime
Wednesday 18 November 2020, 01:00 AM

The pandemic is seen as an opportunity by online criminals to carry out scams and malicious cyber activity
DEAR AUNT MASIE
The pandemic means so many more of our patient interactions are now online. It happened so quickly I’m worried about security. I’ve also heard one of our local practices recently got scammed. Have you any tips on how to reduce our risk?
Virtual worrier, North Shore
When we talk about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, we tend to think about the health or economic impacts. Less well understood are the opportunit
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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