Behaviour Change 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.
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.
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.
Episode 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.
4.5 Professor Mahendra Patel OBE - Health Inequalities and the Bradford Polo Mint
This week we welcome Pharmacy's own National Treasure Professor Mahendra Patel OBE. Mahendra is a multi-award winning pharmacist and academic with professorial roles in a number of universities. He has led research into health inequalities, diabetes and COVID amongst many others.
4.3 – Professor Delyth James – Applying behavioural change - to yourself
In this week’s episode we are thrilled to be joined by Delyth James, Professor of Health Psychology in Pharmacy Practice at Cardiff Metropolitan University. Delyth is a pharmacist with experience of training and education and working as a renal pharmacist in hospitals across the world. Delyth’s main area of research is ‘Health Psychology and Medicines use.
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.
Episode 9 - Angela Carrington - The World Health Organisation's Medicines Safety Challenge
Angela leads the Northern Ireland Medicines Safety Team supporting health and social care trusts in preventing avoidable medicines related harm. We discuss the World Health Organisations ‘Medicines Safety Challenge’ and the importance of Human Factors In Healthcare. We also get back onto the subject of drug pronunciation..
Episode 4. Dr Lawrence Brad, working with pharmacists multidisciplinary education and the science of Nudge.
Dr Lawrence Brad is a partner and GP prescribing who has published with both Jamie and STC about the benefits of clinical pharmacists in general practice. He is the RCGP representative for clinical pharmacists and we explore the role of clinical pharmacists and the synergistic relationship pharmacists can have with prescribers.