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Specialist GP Jo Scott-Jones picks up a topical subject – how to care for patients who need a service or medication that isn’t funded or requires a long wait
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Pharmacist prescribers Linda Bryant and Leanne Te Karu discuss positive polypharmacy for heart failure. Current evidence shows the intensive implementation of four medications offers the greatest benefit to most patients with heart failure, with significant reductions in cardiovascular mortality, heart failure hospitalisations and all-cause mortality
