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Peculiar? Dead right! Take a health sector on tenterhooks over burgeoning DHB deficits, a ministry undergoing radical restructuring, primary care boxing on and general practice pondering its future. Mix in a minister regarded by most as aloof from his portfolio, and you get an odd vibe. Add a shoo-in election that turns into a photo finish amid a hail of promises to spend more, more, more on health, and 2017 has been a very peculiar year
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
