Primary Care 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.
4.9 - Dr Ben Allen - Failure Demand in General Practice
In this episode we talk to Dr Ben Allen. A GP partner and Clinical Director for Primary Care in Sheffield, Ben is passionate about empowering patients to understand the health system in order to improve their experience of care.
Episode 2.6 Dr Mark Porter MBE - It shouldn't happen to a vet.
Mark is an NHS GP and award winning journalist. He spends half his week working as a GP partner in rural Gloucestershire, and the rest investigating and reporting on the latest developments in medicine. We chat to Mark about his new practice pharmacy professionals, deprescribing, and the six-week wait for hospital discharge communication.
Episode 2.3 - Dr Tessa Lewis - NO-TEARS, Thinking Fast & Slow and Chronic Kidney Injury
We chat to Dr Tessa Lewis a GP in Blaenavon, Wales and a Therapeutics and Medical Advisor. As well as being the author of the renowned ‘NO-TEARS’ medication review framework Tessa was awarded the ‘Distinguished Contribution to NICE Award’ for her contribution to its work.
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.
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 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.