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Frances Matthews questions the ‘warehousing’ approach for older adults needing care and suggests an ACC-style scheme might be the answer to funding
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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
