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Violet Clapham works as a full-time midwife in Christchurch, focusing mainly on supporting homebirth. She is also the coordinator of the Midwifery Resource Centre Canterbury and is the recent past chair of the New Zealand College of Midwives Canterbury/West Coast region. Violet represents midwifery on the Canterbury DHB Clinical Board and the Midwifery and Maternity Providers Organisation Board. She is currently working on her masters’ research, and is a mentor for new graduate midwives in the Midwifery First Year of Practice programme
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
