Episodes
The Aural Apothecary Almanac 2024. Weight loss drugs, Assisted dying and the Weight of the British National Formulary
Pull up a chair and join the Three Apothecaries around the fire as we wrap up the year with a lively chat featuring friends and colleagues Clare Howard and Jonathan Underhill.
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?
7.3 John Seddon - Saving the NHS through system change
Freedom from Command and Control was the very first book choice on the Aural Apothecary and its themes of failure demand, systems thinking and value have featured heavily on the show ever since. It is a real pleasure therefore this week to welcome its...
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
7.1 The Aural Apothecary Analyses! Statins and Shared Decision Making, with Brian Finney and Dr Sam Finnikin
Welcome back to The Aural Apothecary! For our first episode we bring you an exciting new format, where we’ll be diving deeper into some of the recurring themes from our first six series. The Aural Apothecary Analyses!
6.10 Tommy Whitelaw - Intelligent Kindness & Gentle Honesty - Listening is the best medicine
Join us for a joyful exploration of the importance and reality of person centred care with Tommy Whitelaw from Person Centred Voices who was a full-time carer for his late mother Joan who had vascular dementia.
6.9 Ann-Marie Goacher. The Eyes: A Window to Our Health
Pain in the eye? It is a red-flag all healthcare professionals are trained to be aware of. But when spotted, who deals with it? We are joined by Specialist Head and Neck Pharmacist Ann Marie Goacher.
6.8 Maricarmen Climént - Risky Business - How to communicate uncertainty
How do you explain the risks and benefits of a medicine when you yourself don’t really know? We chat to Maricarmen Climént about risk communication and how we best help patients to make better choices in the face of uncertainty?
6.7 Dr Esther Clift DClinP - Joining the Dots; Frailty & Physiotherapy
We chat to Physiotherapist and Consultant Practitioner, Esther Clift about her pioneering role in the management of frailty & how the Isle of Wight, as a ‘petri-dish’ of frailty, is the ideal place for this role.
6.6 Dr Catherine Labinjoh - Realistic Medicine & The Drug Portal to The World…
Did you know that according to the OECD, a fifth of healthcare costs adds no value to patient care? This, along with the drive for shared decision making is the drive behind Scotland’s ‘Realistic Medicine’ campaign.
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.
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.
6.3 - Sally Kneath, Let's talk about Sex - Living with HIV
A lively chat as we are joined by sexual health pharmacist Sally Kneath. Sally busts the myths that often surround people living with HIV and details how it is managed today - perhaps not how you would imagine.
6.2 Professor Bapu Jena - Freakonomics MD - Improving healthcare through natural experimentation
We are joined by Professor Bapu Jena. Physician, economist, author of ‘Random Acts of Medicine’ and host of the superb ‘Freakonomics MD’ podcast, we explore with Bapu the concept of ‘natural experimentation’.
6.1 Rory Cellan-Jones - Life as a Mover and Shaker - living with Parkinson's disease
For our first episode of series 6 we are delighted to be joined by former BBC reporter Rory Cellen-Jones. As well as a successful career in journalism, Rory is also part of “Movers and Shakers’ - the hit podcast about life with Parkinsons.
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.
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.
5.9 - Louise Trewern - Joining the dots around chronic pain
How do we manage Chronic Pain? We talk to Louise Trewern who has herself lived with chronic pain since childhood. After years of strange illnesses, infections and persistent pain Louise was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and prescribed a stupor-inducing cocktail of opioids, antidepressants and benzodiazepines.
5.8 - Paul Woodgate - The Patient Voice and the lived reality of Polypharmacy
A fantastic chat this week we talk to Paul Woodgate who as well as having Type II Diabetes and Parkinson’s disease is an advocate for patients in the design of healthcare services. We hear how this important role has evolved from being the oft ignored voice at the back of the room to being a central part of service design.
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.
5.6 - Dr Liz O' Riordan - The Breast Surgeon who got Breast Cancer
‘Assume I know nothing’ - we are joined today by Dr Liz O’Riordan about the impact having the very condition she was trained to treat had on her, both as a patient and a doctor. As well as her experience of cancer, Liz discusses her experiences of sexism, she tells us what actually goes on in the operating room and what really annoys her about pharmacists.
Episode 5.5 - Trevor Silvester. Turn on, Tune in, (Don’t) Drop Out - Psychedelics & Cognitive Hypnotherapy
We are joined today by former police officer and creator of cognitive hypnotherapy Trevor Silvester. But what is Cognitive Hypnotherapy and how does it work? We discuss the role of alternative therapies such as this in holistic models of care. Trevor also takes us through his personal mind-bending journey into the world of psychedelics.
Episode 5.4 - Rachel Power - Communication, Communication, Communication.
We are joined in this episode by Rachel Power, Chief Executive of the Patients Association - an independent patient charity campaigning for improvements in health and social care for patients. We discuss the concerns that patients are bringing to the Patients Association which include medicines information and communication. Are patient information leaflets best used as wallpaper..?
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.