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
South Seas Health not alone as Otara takes COVID-19 response to its heart
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South Seas Health not alone as Otara takes COVID-19 response to its heart
Wednesday 6 May 2020, 04:30 AM

What happens when a community designs its own pandemic response on the hoof? Alan Perrott went to south Auckland to find out
From 7am to 4.30pm, Peato Lilo worries this might be the day he takes COVID-19 home to his partner and two baby girls.
“We keep ourselves safe, bu
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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