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Inverse Care Law Episodes

Oct. 25, 2024

7.2 - Back to the Future! Dr Berwyn Owen and The Evolution of Community Pharmacy.

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

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Dec. 8, 2023

The Aural Apothecary Almanac 2023 - Artificial Intelligence, the Year of Community Pharmacy and the impact of loss

Pull up a chair and join the Three Apothecaries around the fire for our end-of-year chat with friends and colleagues Clare Howard and Jonathan Underhill to discuss another dramatic year.

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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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July 15, 2022

Bonus Episode - a Summer Scorcher! Kulpna Daya & Professor Stephen Bazire – Live at the Clinical Pharmacy Congress!

We have a special treat for you this week as we share the recording of our live show at this year’s Clinical Pharmacy Congress. And as an added bonus you get two guests for the price of one! Kulpna Daya. Kulpna co-founder of Pharmacy Technicians of Colour and Professor Stephen Bazire author of The Psychotropic Drug Directory.

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July 1, 2022

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.

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May 20, 2022

4.2 – Rebecca Hunter – Medicines behind Bars

In this week’s episode we talk about Prescribing in Prison. We are joined by Rebecca Hunter who, as well as being a prison pharmacist is a clinical leadership fellow working in Health Education and Improvement Wales ,is passionate about the role that pharmacy has in supporting those in prison environments as well as improving health inequalities.

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May 6, 2022

4.1 - Getting Older and how to deal with it - with bestselling author Dr Lucy Pollock

We are joined by Consultant Geriatrician and bestselling author Dr Lucy Pollock. As Lucy tells us - we all become old if we are lucky. But how do we deal with it - as people and as health professionals? We chat about Lucy’s experience in working with the elderly and the importance of honesty, humour and shared decision making.

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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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June 11, 2021

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.

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May 21, 2021

Episode 2.2 - Dr Karen Sankey - Fixing the medical model - a squash and squeeze

We chat to Dr Karen Sankey - a GP of 25 years who is currently working at St Werburghs medical practice for the homeless. Karen talks about her frustration with the current medical model and how in her view it does not serve the most vulnerable people. and their needs.

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Feb. 19, 2021

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.

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