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Paediatrics Episodes

March 22, 2024

6.5 Alison Tennant - Won’t someone think of the children?

It takes a special sort of person to work in paediatric care. We chat to Alison Tennant, Chief Pharmacist at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Trust about the risks and rewards of working with children and their medicines.

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May 19, 2023

5.7 Louise Jenkins and Cystic Fibrosis - Not part of my life, but my whole life

A truly joyful patient story when we chat to Louise Jenkins. Cystic Fibrosis is a condition that encompasses your whole life. Louise talks to us about growing up with the condition, balancing the constant need for treatment with trying to grow up normally.Louise describes being ill with CF as ‘like having a second job’, and tells us the transformative effect a change in drugs has had on her life. It is a miraculous story.

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