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Chelsea Willmott works in rural general practices around Southland and Otago. She works as a rural nurse practitioner in general practice, emergency and PRIME. She is also a senior lecturer, clinical advisor and academic at Victoria University in the NPTP intern year. Her academic research and area of expertise is inter-professional and intraprofessional conflict, the cultural relationship between doctors and nurses, horizontal violence in healthcare and workforce development. She holds a variety of roles in healthcare management, teaches FACT with professor of general practice Bruce Arroll and is on the NPNZ executive committee
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
