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
GP’s message for the PRIME minister: ‘Once we go, we won’t come back’
This story has been changed to add the words “If this is happening” to the comment made by Andy Inder with regards to clinicians exaggerating the acuity of cases to ensure St John turned up with an ambulance.
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South GP CME
GP’s message for the PRIME minister: ‘Once we go, we won’t come back’
Wednesday 28 August 2019, 07:00 AM

Waimate GP Sarah Creegan says PRIME providers – and their budgets – are exhausted
Over 1000 delegates, including exhibitors, gathered at Christchurch’s Horncastle Arena for this year’s South GP CME. It was the ninth year for the southern event which made Dunedin its home for a few years following the Canterbury earthquakes. Fiona Cassie, Zahra Shahtahmasebi, Virginia McMillan and Barbara Fountain attended sessions over two days of the conference
I acknowledge that in the past they have been asked to do more than they can realistically manage
The GPs and nurses racing to rural accidents a