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
If the patients won’t come to you, you’ve got to go to the patients – Rotorua GP
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If the patients won’t come to you, you’ve got to go to the patients – Rotorua GP
Tuesday 21 July 2020, 10:13 AM

VIRTUAL ROTORUA GP CME
A GP’s eye-view of caring by focusing in on a high-needs community. Reporter Alan Perrott describes the outreach strategy of GP Alastair McLean, who spoke at the Virtual GP CME conference in Rotorua last month. See also the nurse’s eye-view of Dr McLean’s wife, Mary
Day care centres are a useful place for reaching healthcare-shy whānau, says Rotorua GP Alastair McLean.
Dr McLean’s practice, Western Heights Heal
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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