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Christine McIntosh and Sue Tutty, who are both specialist GPs and GP liaisons for Te Whatu Ora Counties Manukau in Auckland

Jessica Keepa, a GP registrar working with Hauora Heretaunga in Hastings; and Justine Lancaster, a specialist GP and clinical lead at the Ministry of Health in Wellington

Michelle Te Kira, general manager at Three Rivers Medical in Gisborne and PMAANZ chair; Henrietta Taia, practice manager at Royal Heights Medical Centre in Auckland; Samantha Murton, RNZCGP president; Bryan Betty, a specialist GP at the Porirua Union and Community Health Service in Wellington and RNZCGP medical director; Mary Ford, practice manager at Family Health Centre in New Plymouth; and Heidi Bubendorfer, secretary of PMAANZ, of the Bay of Islands

Pragati Gautama, a rural generalist and specialist GP of Queenstown; Kyle Eggleton, the rural director for the University of Auckland Medical School and a part-time specialist GP in Northland; Fiona Bolden, a specialist GP at Whangamatā Medical Centre and Hauora Taiwhenua Rural Health Network chair, of Coromandel

Dave McKay, a specialist GP at Helensburgh Medical Centre in Dunedin; Samantha Murton, a specialist GP at Capital Care Health Centre and RNZCGP president, Wellington; Garry Nixon, specialist GP and rural hospital medicine specialist at Dunstan Hospital and associate professor at the University of Otago in Dunedin; and Katharina Blattner, a rural hospital medicine and GP specialist at Hauora Hokianga in Northland

Charles Ellen of cancer diagnostic company Pacific Edge, Dunedin; Lance O’Sullivan, a specialist GP of MaiHealth, Pukekohe; and Brent Pownall, also of Pacific Edge, Dunedin

Ruth Large, an emergency physician, rural hospital medicine specialist and chair of the NZ Telehealth Leadership Group, of Tuakau; Martin Mikaere, a specialist GP at Te Korowai Hauora o Hauraki in Thames; Mark Eager, chief executive of Mobile Health, Christchurch; and Sarah Chalmers, a rural generalist and president of the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine, Australia

Sally Hoskins, a specialist GP at Te Ngae Medical Centre in Rotorua with her daughter, Samantha Keenan, a GP registrar at Highland Park Medical Centre in Auckland

Samantha Keenan, a GP registrar at Highland Park Centre; with fellow Auckland-based GP registrars Tahira Jokhio, Sanna Op Den Dries, Raihan Ibrahim and Un So Russell-Park

Kate Henley, a GP registrar in Wellington; Gracie Willington, a GP registrar at New Brighton Health Centre; Rosie Grant, a GP registrar in Christchurch; and Katelyn Costello (with baby Archie), a specialist GP at Queenstown Medical Centre

Les Toop, a specialist GP at Ferry Road Medical Centre and emeritus professor at the University of Otago, Christchurch; Lynne Hayman, the chief executive of RNZCGP in Wellington; and Martin Wilson, a specialist GP at Woodham Road Medical and Pegasus Health IT clinical lead, of Christchurch

Liadhan Coakley, a GP registrar in Motueka; David Short, a rural hospital medicine specialist working at Te Nikau in Greymouth and a GP registrar in Motueka, with his parents Andrea Short, a practice nurse and practice manager with specialist GP husband Michael Short (who is also an occupational medicine doctor for the New Zealand Defence Force) at their solo practice Dr Short’s Surgery in Dannevirke

Buzz Burrell, a specialist GP currently working at The Auckland Regional Pain Service (TARPS) as a pain fellow; with Simon Wright, Kylie McQuellin and Leah Pearless, all staff members at RNZCGP in Wellington

Amy Ikenasio, a GP at Feilding Health Care; Sarah Rhodes, a physiotherapist from the University of Otago school of physiotherapy in Dunedin; and Charlotte Jackson, a GP registrar at The Doctors Tauranga

Charlotte Cooper, a specialist GP at Ferry Road Medical Centre; Catherine Helms, a specialist GP at WeCare Health; Geraldine Wilson, a specialist GP at the University of Canterbury Health Centre; and Jane Lilley and Sarah Marr are specialist GPs at Halswellhealth; all of Christchurch

Merryn Ng-Wai Shing, a GP registrar (now Fellow) at Wadestown Medical Practice in Wellington; Hannah Morley, a GP registrar at the Hastings Health Centre in Hawke’s Bay; and Joanna Simpson, a GP registrar in Christchurch

Louise Poynton, a specialist GP and medical director at Tū Ora Compass PHO, Wellington; Jeff Lowe, a specialist GP at Karori Medical Centre and chair of General Practice NZ, Wellington; and Maura Thompson, chief executive of GPNZ of Auckland

Claire Isham, a specialist GP and clinical director at Western Bay of Plenty PHO in Tauranga; and Daniel Jackson, a specialist GP at Poutiri Wellness Centre in Te Puke

Second-year University of Otago medical students Matthew Sloane, Luke Stedman and Hank Lin, all of Dunedin; and Janus Li, a translator and faculty member at the University of Auckland

Lynda Gee, a locum GP; Janine Bycroft, a specialist GP at Mt Wellington Family Health Centre and Health Navigator website founder; Zoe Murphy, programme manager at ProCare Fresh Minds; and Ainsleigh Cribb, a clinical psychologist at National Hauora Coalition; all of Auckland

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Polypharmacy

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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

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