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
NZMA demise a sign of the times
Wednesday 25 May 2022, 03:15 AM

The NZMA’s medico-political sessions at GP CME conferences have been a highlight for New Zealand Doctor reporters, if not just for the body language. In 2011, the line-up was Labour health spokesperson Grant Robertson, NZMA chair and haematologist Paul Ockelford, and health minister Tony Ryall, with NZMA GP Council chair Mark Peterson moderating [Image above: NZD]
Ultimately, membership organisations cannot exist without members
Liquidation is not a word I expected to hear with regard to the New Zealand Med