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
Systems in decline: Time for a radical shift?
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Are the health systems of the UK and Aotearoa at a crossroads? [Image: AerialPerspective Work on iStock]
After years of struggling with ineffective reforms and increasing challenges, both the NHS and New Zealand’s health system face critical junctures. Jonathan Simon wonders if a patient-centred, digital health revolution could be the answer
In this scenario, the new entrants to the health sector would have to create a new system with different funding and models of care
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