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Medicines Experts Episodes

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May 28, 2026

8.9 How to take Drugs with Professor Nick Barber

Are your medicines actually working for you? We are joined by Professor Nick Barber — pharmacist, academic and author of the new book How to take Drugs — for a sharp, eye-opening conversation about why medicines so often fail in the real world
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Oct. 25, 2024

7.2 - Back to the Future! Dr Berwyn Owen and The Evolution of Community Pharmacy.

Community Pharmacist Dr Berwyn Owen is a pharmacy proprietor and prescriber in rural North Wales and we discuss what the future of medicines management looks like through the lens of community pharmacy
March 26, 2021

Episode 7 - Johnathan Laird- What is a Pharmacist and Amazon’s place in healthcare?

Jonathan is owner of, and a successful pharmacy podcaster and publisher at, Pharmacy in Practice . Jonathan has worked in community pharmacy and general practice and we “blether” about Pharmacy in Scotland, his passion for independent prescribing and the risks and benefits posed to medicines supply by the role of Amazon Pharmacy.
March 5, 2021

Episode 4. Dr Lawrence Brad, working with pharmacists multidisciplinary education and the science of Nudge.

Dr Lawrence Brad is a partner and GP prescribing who has published with both Jamie and STC about the benefits of clinical pharmacists in general practice. He is the RCGP representative for clinical pharmacists and we explore the role of clinical pharmacists and the synergistic relationship pharmacists can have with prescribers.