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
Keeping tabs on practice business health
Wednesday 3 August 2022, 04:00 AM

In traffic-light reporting, “red” means action, “orange” on target, and “green” better than expected [image: Jannis Lucas on Unsplash]
I’m one of four GP owners in our group practice. For the past two years, the practice has been in survival mode with COVID-19 and now winter flu. I feel I need to get better at knowing where the practice is “at”. Can you suggest areas I should be looking at or asking our manager to report on?
– Out of touch, Auckland
It’s not surprising that some business-as-usual tasks have been paused over recent times, but knowing how your business is performing is important fo
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