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
Wait long enough and the wheel of democracy turns
Wednesday 23 September 2020, 05:15 AM

Veteran journalist Martin Johnston recalls the long-ago announcement of a new Auckland City Hospital
Martin Johnston’s early health reporting was when democracy returned to health boards, and now, a generation later, he writes, it may be on the way out again
It was an exciting time to start covering health. Democracy had been rediscovered at health boards, meeting doors were thrown open and, in central Auc
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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