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
Password panic to battling Evolution: Starting at a new practice shakes you up
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Password panic to battling Evolution: Starting at a new practice shakes you up
Tuesday 1 June 2021, 04:22 PM

Getting established in a new practice means new systems, new colleagues and new stock cupboards
JUST WONDERING
Lucy O’Hagan gets a bit rattled at first, as she learns ‘how things are done around here’
Today I feel like a registrar. I have been a GP for 25 years, but today I feel all skew-whiff and worried that maybe I don’t really have a clue.
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Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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