Polypharmacy Episodes
Episode 2.6 Dr Mark Porter MBE - It shouldn't happen to a vet.
Mark is an NHS GP and award winning journalist. He spends half his week working as a GP partner in rural Gloucestershire, and the rest investigating and reporting on the latest developments in medicine. We chat to Mark about his new practice pharmacy professionals, deprescribing, and the six-week wait for hospital discharge communication.
Episode 2.5 - Professor Rachel Elliott - The Empty Chair and Technology Solutionism
Rachel is a pharmacist and Professor of Health Economics at University of Manchester. Rachel has worked with Datalab, NICE and Academic Health Science networks to contribute health economics input of commissioning. We chat to Rachel about ‘having a foot in two camps’, rationing and the over-use of technology to solve problems.
Episode 2.3 - Dr Tessa Lewis - NO-TEARS, Thinking Fast & Slow and Chronic Kidney Injury
We chat to Dr Tessa Lewis a GP in Blaenavon, Wales and a Therapeutics and Medical Advisor. As well as being the author of the renowned ‘NO-TEARS’ medication review framework Tessa was awarded the ‘Distinguished Contribution to NICE Award’ for her contribution to its work.
Episode 2 - Clare Howard and Multimorbidity
We meet our first guest, Clare Howard who has worked in pharmacy since she was 16 and in the past was Deputy Chief Pharmaceutical Officer for NHS England. She is now the Medicines Optimisation Clinical Director for the Wessex Academic Health & we discuss polypharmacy, PINCER, multimorbidity as well as middle aged apathy.