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ACC PATIENT SAFETY AWARD
The Treatment Safety Team at ACC is dedicated to supporting patient safety and reducing the incidence and severity of treatment injuries in New Zealand. It is exciting to see our colleagues in primary care sharing our priorities and working hard to improve safety for their patients. Congratulations to all of those who took part and were recognised at the awards
– Nick Kendall, manager Treatment Safety, ACC
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
