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
No new cases of COVID-19
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No new cases of COVID-19
Sunday 6 December 2020, 12:59 PM

There are no new cases of COVID-19 to report in New Zealand today.
Three previously reported cases have now recovered, so our total number of active cases is 56.
Our total number of confirmed cases remains at 1,722.
Yesterday laboratories processed 5,530 tests for COVID-19, bringing the total number of tests completed to date to 1,309,992.
NZ COVID Tracer
NZ COVID Tracer now has 2,394,300 registered users.
Poster scans have reached 133,782,991 and users have created 5,389,423 manual diary entries.