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
After lockdown: Planning for a changed world
Wednesday 3 June 2020, 02:15 AM

yourself Using the COVID-19 crisis as an opportunity to rethink how you do things in the future can help you succeed, believes MAS healthy practice adviser Fiona
DEAR AUNT MASIE
We are a practice with five GPs. Since COVID-19 we have been working in a very different way and we feel that some things may have changed forever. We have taken a financial hit with a significant drop in patient fees, and now we need to think about what life after COVID-19 will look like and how to best structure our practice for the future. Can you give us some tips on how to do this?
Change is constant, Christchurch
COVID-19 has forced dramatic changes on New Zealand society and business in short order, and general practices are no exception to this.
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