Respiratory physician Lutz Beckert considers chronic obstructive pulmonary disease management, including the prevention of COPD, the importance of smoking cessation and pulmonary rehabilitation, and the lifesaving potential of addressing treatable traits. He also discusses the logic of inhaler therapy, moving from single therapy to dual and triple therapy when indicated, as well as other aspects of management
Patient strain on the plain falls mostly away
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Patient strain on the plain falls mostly away
Friday 12 April 2019, 10:24 AM

Keeping Hauraki Plains Health Centre sustainable, with its “fairly static” patient numbers has required efficiencies from the health care home model, GP Anthony Smit says
In his third story on Hauraki Plains general practices, Simon Maude visits Ngatea’s Hauraki Plains Health Centre, a practice well into implementing the health care home model
Patients have to understand the health care home model, it takes them a while to get it. They get really shitty when they’re told “we’ll put you on th, Hauraki Plains, Dr Smit hopes the CSC will see many patients return to the Ngatea practice, instead of making the 50km round trip to visit the closest VLCA practices
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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