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

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

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

The Medication Safety Expert Advisory Group is developing a full alert following release of a safety signal issued in October 2012 on oral metoprolol administration.

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.

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

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

This poster 'Reducing opioid-related harm and building quality improvement capability in New Zealand: a national formative collaborative' was presented at the IHI's 28th annual national forum on quality improvement in health care.

This report presents an evaluation of the Health Quality & Safety Commission-led safe use of opioids national collaborative.

An alert has been issued to highlight the need to clearly differentiate between stroke thrombolysis and myocardial infarction thrombolysis.