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
Patea clicks: Finding GPs down the wire
Monday 11 September 2017, 11:41 AM
When the trust that runs Patea’s sole general practice could no longer attract even a locum GP, 2300 patients were left in the lurch. Now the town with no doctor has become the launching pad for two new telehealth services. Aaron van Delden visited the home of Poi E to investigate
Recent history hasn’t been kind to Patea. Once South Taranaki’s main hub, the town had a busy river port serving its rich agricultural hinterland by s
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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