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
Delays costly to Rangiora project: Tender coming soon for family health and urgent-care centre
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Delays costly to Rangiora project: Tender coming soon for family health and urgent-care centre
Wednesday 15 March 2023, 03:00 AM

Next step for the delayed new Rangiora urgent-care centre is to sign up a radiology tenant [Image: Supplied]
North Canterbury’s first after-hours clinic was mooted to open in late 2021 but it is now likely to be in 2025. Fiona Cassie reports
It’s in the millions, not the hundreds of thousands
COVID-19 and consent delays are likely to have added millions of dollars to the cost of a pla
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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