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The 2020 Annual Report of the Australian & New Zealand Hip Fracture Registry 2020 Annual Report.

The medication charting toolkit has been prepared for health practitioners who are implementing the national medication chart and/or conducting education and training on how to use the national medication chart.

A booklet and a flyer from ACC with information for people who could get pregnant, and their families and whānau, understand the risks and benefits of taking anti-seizure medicines for epilepsy, mental health and pain.

The Health Quality & Safety Commission, Choosing Wisely and the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists have developed an information leaflet to help patients, caregivers and whānau use opioid medicines safely, to manage non-cancer pain.

Guidelines for the display of combination product medicines in electronic systems.

Tools developed by Waitematā DHB to encourage the safer prescribing and the best practice use of oxygen therapy, to reduce harm to patients.

Following international practice, the name and strength description for Bicillin LA® has been changed. The expression of the name will now be benzathine benzylpenicillin tetrahydrate. The expression of product strength will now be 1,200,000 units/2.3

New dosing guidance for acetylcysteine for the treatment of paracetamol overdose and toxicity issued in January 2019.

This package outlines the next steps and what the options are to make a significant difference in opioid-induced adverse drug events.

Frequently asked questions about measurement for the safe use of opioids.