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NZMA GP COUNCIL
Vanessa Weenink comes up with a wish list that includes better and more timely planning, redesign and fair funding for GPs’ work, and a dismantling of the disparity exemplified by privately paid-for healthcare
Penno E, Sullivan T, Barson D, et al. Private choices, public costs: Evaluating cost-shifting between private and public health sectors in New Zealand. Health Policy 2021;125(3):406–14.
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
