Episodes
6.4 Professor Tony Avery OBE - The Problem with Prescribing?
How do you influence the prescribing habits of an entire country? This is the task of NHS England’s National Clinical Director of Prescribing Professor Tony Avery.
6.3 - Sally Kneath, Let's talk about Sex - Living with HIV
A lively chat as we are joined by sexual health pharmacist Sally Kneath. Sally busts the myths that often surround people living with HIV and details how it is managed today - perhaps not how you would imagine.
6.2 Professor Bapu Jena - Freakonomics MD - Improving healthcare through natural experimentation
We are joined by Professor Bapu Jena. Physician, economist, author of ‘Random Acts of Medicine’ and host of the superb ‘Freakonomics MD’ podcast, we explore with Bapu the concept of ‘natural experimentation’.
6.1 Rory Cellan-Jones - Life as a Mover and Shaker - living with Parkinson's disease
For our first episode of series 6 we are delighted to be joined by former BBC reporter Rory Cellen-Jones. As well as a successful career in journalism, Rory is also part of “Movers and Shakers’ - the hit podcast about life with Parkinsons.
The Aural Apothecary Almanac 2023 - Artificial Intelligence, the Year of Community Pharmacy and the impact of loss
Pull up a chair and join the Three Apothecaries around the fire for our end-of-year chat with friends and colleagues Clare Howard and Jonathan Underhill to discuss another dramatic year.
5.10 Professor Neal Maskrey - Rebalancing Medicine
A retired GP and former director of the National Prescribing Centre Professor Neal Maskrey was a pivotal figure in the in the way clinical evidence is presented and used in practice, and an inspiration to many.
5.9 - Louise Trewern - Joining the dots around chronic pain
How do we manage Chronic Pain? We talk to Louise Trewern who has herself lived with chronic pain since childhood. After years of strange illnesses, infections and persistent pain Louise was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and prescribed a stupor-inducing cocktail of opioids, antidepressants and benzodiazepines.
5.8 - Paul Woodgate - The Patient Voice and the lived reality of Polypharmacy
A fantastic chat this week we talk to Paul Woodgate who as well as having Type II Diabetes and Parkinson’s disease is an advocate for patients in the design of healthcare services. We hear how this important role has evolved from being the oft ignored voice at the back of the room to being a central part of service design.
5.7 Louise Jenkins and Cystic Fibrosis - Not part of my life, but my whole life
A truly joyful patient story when we chat to Louise Jenkins. Cystic Fibrosis is a condition that encompasses your whole life. Louise talks to us about growing up with the condition, balancing the constant need for treatment with trying to grow up normally.Louise describes being ill with CF as ‘like having a second job’, and tells us the transformative effect a change in drugs has had on her life. It is a miraculous story.
5.6 - Dr Liz O' Riordan - The Breast Surgeon who got Breast Cancer
‘Assume I know nothing’ - we are joined today by Dr Liz O’Riordan about the impact having the very condition she was trained to treat had on her, both as a patient and a doctor. As well as her experience of cancer, Liz discusses her experiences of sexism, she tells us what actually goes on in the operating room and what really annoys her about pharmacists.
5.5 - Trevor Silvester. Turn on, Tune in, (Don’t) Drop Out - Psychedelics & Cognitive Hypnotherapy
We are joined today by former police officer and creator of cognitive hypnotherapy Trevor Silvester. But what is Cognitive Hypnotherapy and how does it work? We discuss the role of alternative therapies such as this in holistic models of care. Trevor also takes us through his personal mind-bending journey into the world of psychedelics.
5.4 - Rachel Power - Communication, Communication, Communication.
We are joined in this episode by Rachel Power, Chief Executive of the Patients Association - an independent patient charity campaigning for improvements in health and social care for patients. We discuss the concerns that patients are bringing to the Patients Association which include medicines information and communication. Are patient information leaflets best used as wallpaper..?
Aural Apothecary Archives: Tracy Brown – What is Analgesic Stewardship
As a prelude to our next episode, where we discuss the issue of pain and opioid dependency, we are replaying a classic from the Aural Apothecary Archive. Tracy Brown – an award winning pharmacist running primary care pain clinics.
5.3 - Professor Alf Collins: No decision about me, without me
The Godfather of Shared Decision Making (SDM) has spoken, so listen up! Professor Alf Collins is currently NHS England’s Clinical Director for personalised care but he was a community consultant in pain management for many years and worked with the Health Foundation helping lead applied research and implementation programmes in person centred care
Aural Apothecary Archives : Jonathan Underhill, Shared Decision Making , NICE and POOs not DOOs
As a prelude to the next Series 5 episode with Professor Alf Collins, the Godfather of Shared Decision Making, we have dug into the Aural Apothecary Archives and found one of our best episodes about the importance of having meaningful conversations with patients about medicines.
5.2 - Deborah Duval. Let me live! Life as a transplant recipient
What is more important? Quality of life or length of life? A question that our guest, Deborah Duval, faces on a daily basis and she shares with us her experiences of being a recipient of multiple transplants and how she balances a busy lifestyle with a gruelling and complex treatment regimen
5.1 - Graham Prestwich - The Patient as a Project Manager
We’re back! This series we are focussing on the patient and their experiences of medicines and we start with a cracker! Graham brings his expertise working for the pharmaceutical industry and as a pharmacologist to helping people understand and use their medicines through the fantastic website www.meandmymedicines.org.uk
The Aural Apothecary Almanac 2022 – Polypharmacy, the Menopause and Growing old with Medicines
Join the Three Apothecaries and some old friends as they gather around the fire and reflect on the year. Jamie, Gimmo and Steve the Chemist are joined by friends of the show Clare Howard and Jonathan Underhill to discuss the highs and lows of 2022 starting with COVID and ending with Strep A, what a year for healthcare and medicines it has been.
Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week 2022 - Phil Howard
For this special episode the Apothecaries are joined by Professor Phil Howard ,OBE, to discuss Antimicrobial Resistance and what we can all do to tackle it. Phil is the former President of the British Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy so is well placed to discuss this.
4.10 – Professor Claire Thompson and Badly Behaved Molecules
What do football and pharmaceutical science have in common?!
In this, our final episode of series four, we go out on a high chatting to multi-award winning scientist Claire Thompson about the role pharmaceutical science plays in the development of medicines and her own experience during COVID and what it means for the future of drug development.
4.9 - Dr Ben Allen - Failure Demand in General Practice
In this episode we talk to Dr Ben Allen. A GP partner and Clinical Director for Primary Care in Sheffield, Ben is passionate about empowering patients to understand the health system in order to improve their experience of care.
4.8 - Dave Murdoch and the life of a Paramedic - From Everest to Dorset
Something different - we chat to Dave Murdoch an Advanced Paramedic Practitioner with over 28 years of experience who has worked in a wide variety of prehospital settings; ambulances, cars, helicopters as well as Urgent Care Centres, Emergency Departments and General Practice surgeries, and almost 3 years of medical development work in a post-Soviet medical system.
4.7 - Professor Debi Bhattacharya. System Level Change in The Danger Zone.
We chat to Professor Debi Bhattacharya - Professor of Behavioural Medicine at the University of Leicester and a primary care pharmacist. Debi led on research into a behaviour change toolkit designed to reduce opioid prescribing and is now actively involved in a programme designed to implement this at a systems level.
4.6 Dr Wasim Baqir – Shine On - Changing lives through improved medicines use in Care Homes.
We chat to Dr Wasim Baqir - a senior pharmacist from the Pharmacy Integration Programme at NHS England. Was takes us through his career and work with developing pharmacy services with NHS England and in particular we discuss his work on medicines optimisation in care homes as part of the Health Foundations Shine Programme – a genuine game-changer.