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Social Prescribing Episodes

Feb. 28, 2025

7.7 Diving into the Deep End - The Aural Apothecary Analyses: The Inverse Care Law.

In this special episode we ‘Dive into the Deep End’ and examine in-depth the Inverse Care Law, defined by Welsh GP Dr Julian Tudor-Hart. What is it, why does it matter to medicines optimisation - and what can we do about it?

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March 10, 2023

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.

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Feb. 24, 2023

Episode 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

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Feb. 11, 2022

Episode 3.9 – Tracy Brown – What is Analgesic Stewardship?

A fascinating episode this week where we talk to Tracy Brown – an award winning pharmacist working in Glasgow. As well as running primary care pain clinics Tracy runs the Pain Teach and Treat Programme. We chat about the difficulties of supporting people with chronic pain along with the concept of Analgesic Stewardship.

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