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
Man with a Mission: Bringing health to the homeless
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Man with a Mission: Bringing health to the homeless
Wednesday 1 March 2017, 12:28 PM

Chris Farrelly left his position as chief executive at Northland's Manaia PHO last year to lead the Auckland City Mission. Now an advocate for homeless people, he's clear he hasn't left the health sector. "I am totally in it - this is a health service," he tells Cliff Taylor. Photographs by Chris Reid
The Auckland City Mission feels strangely deserted at 9.30 on a Friday morning. The high-ceilinged foyer has seen better days, everything is a bit scu