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
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The government’s health advisers are urging the NHS to do more to help terminally ill patients achieve their wish of dying at home
Full judicial review granted to determine the lawfulness of the Secretary of State's proposals to introduce Accountable Care Organisations
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