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SIR GRAEME DOUGLAS YOUNG PRIMARY HEALTHCARE PHARMACIST OF THE YEAR
This award recognises a young community or primary healthcare pharmacist who has worked as a pharmacist for fewer than five years and has made an outstanding contribution to customer health through their excellence in clinical pharmacy practice. They will have demonstrated professional leadership, imagination and innovation to achieve better outcomes and foster the growth and development of other primary care pharmacists
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
