Medication Errors Episodes
7.4 The Aural Apothecary Analyses! When Guidelines Go Wrong - A Medicines Safety Special with Dr Matthew Jones and Angela Carrington
Healthcare professionals rely on guidelines to help them make the right choices. But do they work? Is the way we write and use guidance in practice actually harming patients?
3.8 - Stephen Webber - Clinical Negligence and the perils of a no-fault compensation system.
We go slightly left of field when we talk to award winning clinical negligence lawyer Stephen Webber. Stephen has been involved in many medicines related cases and talks to us about the Law of Tort and how healthcare professionals can better manage risk.
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 2.4 - Jill Cruikshank - Advice, Referral, Treatment - The ART of Pharmacy in Scotland
Jill Cruikshank is a community pharmacist who works in Community Pharmacy Development in NHS Lothian. In addition Jill is a coach, trainer & speaker who runs her own consultancy Leading2Solutions. We talk with Jill about ‘Pharmacy First’ - the Scottish Minor Ailments Scheme, writing a book & the importance of hugs.
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 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.