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
Reform and bust
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Reform and bust
Wednesday 12 May 2021, 01:01 PM

Health reform is not for the faint hearted nor for those prone to motion sickness. By April 1993, then prime minister Jim Bolger was bringing his number one fix-it man Bill Birch to tackle the reforms unleased by Simon Upton just two years after they were
Health reform is not for the faint hearted nor for those prone to motion sickness. By April 1993, then prime minister Jim Bolger was bringing his number one fix-it man Bill Birch to tackle the reforms unleased by Simon Upton just two years after they were kicked off [cartoon from New Zealand Doctor archive, 29 April 1993, cartoonist Anthony Ellison].
No matter how innovative, caring, dedicated and heartfelt your efforts, you were not going to make sufficient impact
It truly was a race against