The Aural Apothecary

Pull up a chair and join the Three Apothecaries around the fire as we wrap up the year with a lively chat featuring friends and colleagues Clare Howard and Jonathan Underhill.

Healthcare professionals rely on guidelines to help them make the right choices. But do they work? Is the way we write and use guidance in practice actually harming patients?

Freedom from Command and Control was the very first book choice on the Aural Apothecary and its themes of failure demand, systems thinking and value have featured heavily on the show ever since. It is a real pleasure therefore this …

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

Welcome back to The Aural Apothecary! For our first episode we bring you an exciting new format, where we’ll be diving deeper into some of the recurring themes from our first six series. The Aural Apothecary Analyses!

Join us for a joyful exploration of the importance and reality of person centred care with Tommy Whitelaw from Person Centred Voices who was a full-time carer for his late mother Joan who had vascular dementia.

Pain in the eye? It is a red-flag all healthcare professionals are trained to be aware of. But when spotted, who deals with it? We are joined by Specialist Head and Neck Pharmacist Ann Marie Goacher.

How do you explain the risks and benefits of a medicine when you yourself don’t really know? We chat to Maricarmen Climént about risk communication and how we best help patients to make better choices in the face of uncertainty?

We chat to Physiotherapist and Consultant Practitioner, Esther Clift about her pioneering role in the management of frailty & how the Isle of Wight, as a ‘petri-dish’ of frailty, is the ideal place for this role.

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.