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Organisers of the New Zealand Primary Healthcare Awards | He Tohu Mauri Ora are thrilled to announce the 2021 finalists.
In a year that’s been far from ordinary, the awards celebrate extraordinary achievements across the primary healthcare sector.
The 47 finalists (winners, runnersup and highly commendeds) selected from over 130 entries have risen to the year’s challenge to deliver awesome health outcomes and work towards achieving equity.
Winners will be announced at a glittering black-tie gala in Auckland on 15 May.
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
