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This is the story of Gary Edwards, a 60-year-old builder from Waitarere Beach, who ended up on Warfarin after a cardiac event.

Consumer flyer: help with your medicines is available – ask your pharmacist for advice.

This toolkit is designed to help health care staff undertake quality improvement, specifically those working in aged residential care (ARC).

This article from Best Practice Journal (July 2014) 'How did we get here and how do we fix it' focuses on the increase in prescribing of oxycodone.

This leaflet from Pharmac provides practical tips for giving medicine to babies, toddlers and young children.

This leaflet from Pharmac explains why brand names, appearance and packaging of your medicines may have changed.

Authors from the University of Toronto take a closer look at the key questions of medicine reconciliation in this Healthcare Quarterly article

Reducing medication errors is the focus of a factsheet released today by the Health Quality & Safety Commission.

This alert was developed in response to a request by the Health and Disability Commissioner following a case where the dose of medicine for a baby was calculated using a weight recorded as being kilograms when it was actually pounds and ounces.

A leaflet about medicines safety for patients coming into hospital.