Education Episodes
Episode 2.10 - Dr Mark Holland - The Needy not the Noisy
Dr Mark Holland is Associate Professor at the University of Bolton & formerly a Consultant in geriatric medicine at Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, before moving into Acute Medicine. Formerly President of the Society for Acute Medicine he did so many TV interviews on behalf of his profession he ended up with his own IMDB database!
Episode 2.7 - Fiona Peniston-Bird - Non-Medical Prescribing & Competency frameworks - what's the point?
Fiona, a nurse and founder of nmprescribing which provides the opportunity for NMPs to continue to be safe and effective NMPs through access to Continued Professional Development. We chat to Fiona about the evolution and role of non-medical prescribing and its place in care.
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.
Episode 3. Dr Amira Guirguis, supporting the second victim and how to run a drug cartel.
Dr Amira Guiguis is a pharmacist who gained her PhD in the in-field detection of New Psychoactive Substance (NPS) and is currently the MPharm Programme Director at Swansea University Medical School. We discuss the difficulties with supervised methadone administration during the pandemic and the surprising risks posed by herbal teas…
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.