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
ROAD TRIP: Practice eases pressure by adding virtual care, fly-in, fly-out GP
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ROAD TRIP: Practice eases pressure by adding virtual care, fly-in, fly-out GP
Wednesday 9 December 2020, 03:30 AM

One of the two Ngāti Ruanui Healthcare practices is situated right next to Hāwera Hospital
From 19 to 22 October, reporter Zahra Shahtahmasebi drove around Mt Taranaki, stopping in at primary care providers along the way.
This second story of her Road Trip series is about an iwi-owned service where one GP is dedicated to providing virtual consultations Ngāti Ruanui Healthcare is thinking outside the box to get ahead in a region where recruiting and retaining staff are constant battles
After the COVID-19 pandemic forced a virtual shift, the Hāwera-based, Ngāti Ruanui-owned health provider decided to employ a dedicated virtual consult