In this article, Sue Frankland looks at the global problem of wastage of medications, including causes such as overprescribing and non-adherence. She also presents information from her master’s dissertation on how people understand, and respond to, medication expiration dates
Fighting the invisible problem of medicine harm
Tuesday 1 June 2021, 03:16 AM
Pauline McQuoid from Medwise and Clare Perry, deputy director-general, health system improvement and innovation, Ministry of Health
COMMUNITY OR PRIMARY HEALTHCARE PHARMACIST
This award recognises a community pharmacist who has made an outstanding contribution to customer health through their excellence in clinical pharmacy practice. They will have an outstanding commitment to equity in health outcomes and demonstrated professional leadership, imagination and innovation to achieve better outcomes and foster the growth and development of other community pharmacists
WINNER
PAULINE MCQUOID
Severe medicine-related harm is estimated to affect around 45,000 New Zealanders each year and kills more than double the