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
Primary care about helping people, not just making money
Wednesday 11 March 2020, 04:30 AM

The Health Media advertising and business manager Rhonda Jackson and practice nurse Pauline Fitzgerald
PRACTICE NURSE OF THE YEAR
This award recognises the exemplary work of a practice nurse where they have made an outstanding individual contribution to patient care in their practice. They will have expended considerable effort, imagination, leadership and innovation to address practice and patient-level issues
WINNER
PAULINE FITZGERALD
Pauline Fitzgerald’s advocacy for her patients extends far beyond the clinic walls.
“Working in a marae, where she ca