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Pharmacist and non-practising legal expert Máté Hegedus-Gaspar explains why refusing to dispense medicines to an abusive patient may be the right decision for legal reasons
New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990. https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1990/0109/latest/DLM224792.html
Medicines Regulations 1984. https://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/1984/0143/latest/DLM95668.html
Health and Disability Commissioner (Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers' Rights) Regulations 1996. https://www.hdc.org.nz/your-rights/about-the-code/code-of-health-and-disability-services-consumers-rights/
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
Why recognising the signs of dehydration is important...
