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At a Porirua Union & Community Health Service gathering to launch the health care home: health service board member Ara Swanney, administration support team member Pakileata Palauni, nurse Litia Gibson, GP Nadine Kuiper, manager Hiueni Nuku, Capital & Coast DHB board members Ana Coffey, Roger Blakeley, Eileen Brown and Kathryn Adams, health service board chair Ian Frater, Porirua mayor Mike Tana, DHB director of Pacific people’s health Taima Fagaloa, nurse Ma’u Pauta, Compass Health chief executive Martin Hefford, GP Sapna Samant, clinical coordinator Ioana Amusia Viliamu and senior administrator Jacqueline Ward
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
