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
GPs – endangered species or health system panacea?
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GPs – endangered species or health system panacea?
Wednesday 5 June 2024, 12:14 PM

The capitation “money bucket” has not kept pace with the evolving specialty of general practice [Image: Lucas van Oort on Unsplash]
Doug Hill is a specialist GP in Dunedin. Like many, he is worried about the endgame for general practice. He provides some reminders of how far general practice has come and is left wondering why it now finds itself at a crisis point
As a local clinical leader, I have repeatedly sat in (former) DHB meetings where the anti-GP rhetoric is palpable
I have been a GP for almost 25
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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