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Maia Hall talks with practitioners leading the way towards providing high-quality healthcare for gender-diverse people. She then profiles three practitioners well-known in the community - read the profiles here
Carroll R, Morgan S, Ker A et al. “It was a very awkward consultation because I didn’t know”—general practice staff experiences and challenges in providing healthcare to gender and sexual minority youth in Aotearoa New Zealand. Family Practice 2023;cmad024 (online 23 March).
https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmad024
Ker, A.; et al. 2022. “We just want to be treated normally and to have that healthcare that comes along with it”: Rainbow young people’s experiences of primary care in Aotearoa New Zealand. Youth 2022;2:691–704
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
