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
Interim report on system: What the reviewers said
Wednesday 11 December 2019, 04:00 AM

Heather Simpson and fellow reviewers of the health and disability system say mātauranga Māori and rights under the Treaty of Waitangi must be fully implemented
The message from Māoridom gathered force in 2019, and the gavel dropped on the health system: guilty of producing inequalities of outcome for Māori and doing little to remedy them. Virginia McMillan reports
The health system can’t keep going in its present form, based largely on a Western medical model – it won’t achieve equitable outcomes.
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Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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