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
Health in Election 2017 pullout
Tuesday 12 September 2017, 11:57 AM

On 23 September, New Zealand goes to the polls in what is shaping up to be an extremely close-run general election. There are 16 political parties currently registered with the Electoral Commission. In this Election Special we have summarised, some quite tightly, the health policies of the eight parties we think might have an impact on the outcome of the election. We have interviewed the health spokespeople of the four highest polling parties in pre-election polls
The questions we asked of health spokespeople, Virginia McMillan, Fiona Thomas and Aaron van Delden asked these questions of the health spokespeople for the Greens, Labour, National and New Zealand