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May 2, 2024

6.7 Dr Esther Clift DClinP - Joining the Dots; Frailty & Physiotherapy

Source: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/6-7-dr-esther-clift-dclinp-joining-the-dots-frailty-physiotherapy--59785456 We chat to Physiotherapist and Consultant Practitioner, Esther Clift about her pioneering role in the management of frailty. A varied career, where a passion for working with older people was ignited in Southampton, where she undertook an MSc in Gerontology. She currently leads an Acute Frailty Service on…

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April 11, 2024

6.6 Dr Catherine Labinjoh - Realistic Medicine & The Drug Portal to The World…

Source: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/6-6-dr-catherine-labinjoh-realistic-medicine-the-drug-portal-to-the-world--59424851 Did you know that according to the OECD, a fifth of healthcare costs adds no value to patient care? This, along with the drive for shared decision making is the drive behind Scotland’s ‘Realistic Medicine’ campaign. We chat to Dr Catherine Labinjoh, Consultant Cardiologist and National Clinical Advisor…

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March 21, 2024

6.5 Alison Tennant - Won’t someone think of the children?

Source: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/6-5-alison-tennant-won-t-someone-think-of-the-children--59123251 It takes a special sort of person to work in paediatric care. We chat to Alison Tennant, Chief Pharmacist at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Trust about the risks and rewards of working with children and their medicines. Parents going home with bags of bottles, the difficulties of…

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March 20, 2024

Live at the EAHP Congress 2024 - Bordeaux. Minna Eii

We are live from the EAHP Congress in Bordeaux! We chat to Minna Eii - Chief Sustainability Officer’s Clinical Fellow and co-founder of Pharmacy Declares.

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March 7, 2024

6.4 Professor Tony Avery OBE - The Problem with Prescribing?

Source: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/6-4-professor-tony-avery-obe-the-problem-with-prescribing--58963996 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. We chat to Tony about this new, groundbreaking leadership role and techniques used to influence and improve prescribing practice across a whole…

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Feb. 22, 2024

6.3  - Sally Kneath, Let's talk about Sex - Living with HIV

Source: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/6-3-sally-kneath-let-s-talk-about-sex-living-with-hiv--58789720 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. We reflect on the impact of the stigma caused by…

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Jan. 25, 2024

6.1 Rory Cellan-Jones - Life as a Mover and Shaker - living with Parkinson's disease

Source: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/6-1-rory-cellan-jones-life-as-a-mover-and-shaker-living-with-parkinsons-disease--58449468 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. Rory was diagnosed with Parkinsons…

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Dec. 7, 2023

The Aural Apothecary Almanac 2023 - Artificial Intelligence, the Year of Community Pharmacy and the

Source: https://www.spreaker.com/user/13841341/aural-apothocary-season-final-edit 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.What will 2023 be remembered for? Was it the Year of Community Pharmacy or of Artificial Intelligence? Who would…

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July 20, 2023

Episode 5.10 Professor Neal Maskrey - Rebalancing Medicine

Source: https://www.spreaker.com/user/13841341/aural-apothocary-season-5-episode-10-ste A pivotal figure in the development of Evidence Based Practice and an inspiration to many, it was our real pleasure this week to chat to Professor Neal Maskrey. A retired GP and former director of the National Prescribing Centre, Neal has been a key figure in the way…

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June 29, 2023

5.9 - Louise Trewern - Joining the dots around chronic pain

Source: https://www.spreaker.com/user/13841341/aural-apothocary-season-5-episode-9 Our new website is now live - www.theauralapothecary.com How do we manage Chronic Pain? This week we talk to Louise Trewern of Living Well with Pain, who has herself lived with chronic pain since childhood. After years of strange illnesses, infections and persistent pain Louise was diagnosed with…

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June 8, 2023

5.8 - Paul Woodgate - The Patient Voice and the lived reality of Polypharmacy

Source: https://www.spreaker.com/user/13841341/aural-apothocary-season-5-episode-8 Our new website is now live - http://www.theauralapothecary.com 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…

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May 18, 2023

5.7 Louise Jenkins and Cystic Fibrosis - Not part of my life, but my whole life

Source: https://www.spreaker.com/user/13841341/5-7louise-jenkins-cystic-fibrosis A truly joyful patient story this week 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…

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April 20, 2023

Episode 5.5 - Trevor Silvester. Turn on, Tune in, (Don’t) Drop Out - Psychedelics & Cognitive Hypnot

Source: https://www.spreaker.com/user/13841341/main-advert-start-or-mid-podcast Our new website is now live - http://www.theauralapothecary.com 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.…

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April 5, 2023

Episode 5.4 - Rachel Power - Communication, Communication, Communication.

Source: https://www.spreaker.com/user/13841341/aural-apothocary-season-5-episode-4-no-b Our new website is now live - http://www.theauralapothecary.com 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. Are patient information leaflets best used as wallpaper? We discuss…

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March 22, 2023

Pharmacy Legend Ron Pate Live from Lisbon!

The Apothecaries are at EAHP Congress 2023 in Lisbon. We talk to living pharmacy Legend Ron Pate who has been a central figure in, as he describes it, taking hospital pharmacists ‘out of the basement’.

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March 9, 2023

Aural Apothecary Archives: Tracy Brown – What is Analgesic Stewardship

Source: https://www.spreaker.com/user/13841341/3-9-r 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. This is particularly timely as this is also the month that guidance on ‘https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/optimising-personalised-care-for-adults-prescribed-medicines-associated-with-dependence-or-withdrawal-symptoms/’ has been issued in England. We will…

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Feb. 23, 2023

Episode 5.3 - Professor Alf Collins: No decision about me, without me

Source: https://www.spreaker.com/user/13841341/aural-apothecary-season-5-episode-3-fina The Godfather of Shared Decision Making (SDM) has spoken, so listen up! (apologies for his microphone quality though) 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…

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Feb. 2, 2023

5.2 - Deborah Duval. Let me live! Life as a transplant recipient

Source: https://www.spreaker.com/user/13841341/deborahduvaL What is more important? Quality of life or length of life? A question that our guest, Deborah Duval, faces on a daily basis. Deborah is Managing Editor at Kidney Care UK and lead for http://www.kidneykitchen.org - a place where eating is de-medicalised and where celebrity chefs cook kidney-patient…

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Jan. 19, 2023

5.1 - Graham Prestwich - The Patient as a Project Manager

Source: https://www.spreaker.com/user/13841341/aural-apothocary-season-5-episode-1-edit 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 (and one of the people behind the superdrug Tamoxifen) to helping people understand and…

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Dec. 22, 2022

The Aural Apothecary Almanac 2022 – Polypharmacy, the Menopause and Growing old with Medicines

Source: https://www.spreaker.com/user/13841341/aural-apothocary-almanac-xmas-5 Join the Three Apothecaries and some old friends as they gather around the fire and reflect on the year gone by. 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…

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Nov. 17, 2022

Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week 2022 - Phil Howard

Source: https://www.spreaker.com/user/13841341/antimicrobialspecial For this special episode the Apothecaries are joined by Phil Howard to discuss Antimicrobial Resistance and what we can all do to tackle it. Phil is well placed to discuss this with us as the Antimicrobial Stewardship Lead for the North-East & Yorkshire region of England and the…

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Sept. 29, 2022

Episode 4-10 – Professor Claire Thompson and Badly Behaved Molecules

Source: https://www.spreaker.com/user/13841341/epsiode-4-10-prof-claire-thompson Episode 4.10 – Professor Claire Thompson – 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, entrepreneur and philanthropist Professor Claire Thompson. Not only is Claire…

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Sept. 19, 2022

4.9 - Dr Ben Allen - Failure Demand in General Practice

Source: https://www.spreaker.com/user/13841341/4-9-dr-ben-allen-failure-demand-in-gener 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. His main area of interest is exploring how people…

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Aug. 25, 2022

4.7 - Dave Murdoch and the life of a Paramedic - From Everest to Dorset

Source: https://www.spreaker.com/user/13841341/episode-8-aural-apothocary-season-4no-re Something different again this episode - we chat to Dave Murdoch - an Advanced Paramedic Practitioner with over 28 years of experience. Dave 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…

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