ARPHS medical officer of health Dr Nick Eichler.
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The Auckland Regional Public Health Service is calling on the government and Auckland Council to make the necessary changes.
It will soon release a report in the New Zealand Medical Journal looking at liquor outlets in South Auckland and their failure to comply with council regulations.
The council s 2015 signage bylaw controls the signs that can be displayed at shops and other businesses and limits the number, size, coverage, and placement of them, including window signs and sandwich boards.
There are different rules for signs in town centres and industrial areas, but there is no distinction made for bottle stores and liquor outlets.
Primary medication non-adherence to analgesics and antibiotics at Counties Manukau Health Emergency Department
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For medication to be therapeutically effective, it is essential that patients adhere to them. Filling a prescription is the first critical step to establish medication adherence.[[1,2]] Research on medication adherence has primarily focused on secondary non-adherence, which occurs when patients don’t take their medicines as prescribed, don’t refill their prescriptions on time or stop taking their medicines.[[3]] However, rates of primary medication non-adherence, where a patient fails to have a prescription filled for newly prescribed medicines or a suitable alternative within a specified timeframe, are far less known.[[3,4]] Failing to get newly prescribed medications filled places a burden on patients, families and the broader healthcare system by increasing mortality/morbidity, hospitalisation rates and/or emergency department (ED) visits,