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This article was first published online on 13 September.
From Barbara: Throughout the year, freelancer and former staffer Zahra Shahtahmasebi profiled practices around the country. The Servants Health Centre in Dunedin appeared on our cover in September with the “Civil Servants” photographed in the Octagon close to their free, high needs general practice
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
