Pharmacy Magazine Podcast: Talking Pharmacy

A surfeit of Good News this week: inspirational pharmacists recognised in Scotland, progress in Northern Ireland and we hail the important work of Pharmacist Support in the run-up to April's Stress Awareness Month and this year's ACTNow campaign. For details click here - https://pharmacistsupport.org/support-our-work/our-wellbeing-campaigns. Also final call for entries in this year's Recognition o...

The CIG editors discuss the long awaited hub and spoke consultation round 2, the Fuller Stocktake and the extraordinary decision of the RPS to pull its membership of FIP. Plus – the grass not always greener for PCN pharmacists, says the King's Fund, and a well deserved Good Week for AAH, partnering with the Red Cross to help people caught up in the Ukraine conflict.

Controversy over cut-price tender for pharmacy travel vaccination service in Glasgow, CCA versus PDA II (working conditions: the sequel) and the responsible pharmacist advance declaration gets people hot under the collar again – but why now? Also we reflect on all the reaction to last week's big RPS story.

In a bumper edition of the pod, RPS under pressure over senior executive “redundancies”, Boots pauses plans to cut staff hours, the CCA and PDA fall out over pharmacy safety and NPA urges pharmacists to contribute to NHS primary care review. Plus we visit pharmacist Graham Phillips in his new pharmacy in Letchworth.

This month we are joined by Regina Giblin, Senior Cardiac Nurse at the British Heart Foundation, and Dafydd Beech, National Community Education Manager at the British Red Cross, to discuss how pharmacy can protect the heart health of their communities as well as first aid in the pharmacy. We are also joined by extra special guest, Ed Wilson, who has a truly incredible tale of the heart to share. L...

In this special edition of the podcast we travel to the West Country to find out more about Alliance Healthcare’s efforts to reduce its carbon emissions to zero by 2030. We also talk to renowned independent pharmacist Jackie Lewis about how pharmacy can play a bigger role in the early detection of cancer. For more details about the Let’s Communicate Cancer e-learning programme, go to bopa.org.uk a...

The Public Accounts Committee slams DHSC over the now defunct Pharmacy Earlier Payments Scheme – but is it fair for civil servants to entirely take the rap? Plus Sheffield institution Wicker Pharmacy celebrates its 70th birthday, Boots finally does the right thing in reducing the price of EHC sold over-the-counter in its pharmacies and the GPhC still falling short over its fitness to practise proc...

The CIG editors (sans The Prof) are back with Good Week Bad Week. The landmark HEE workforce survey, contractors' engagement (or should it be lack of engagement?) with the pharmacy representation review and the PDA applying the pressure as Boots cuts back on its opening hours all feature. Plus new Rowlands Pharmacy boss Nigel Swift in the interview hotseat.

In this episode of Pharmacy Magazine's In Conversation With podcast, Richard Thomas talks to new Rowlands Pharmacy boss Nigel Swift about the digital transformation of the business alongside its bricks-and-mortar services offer, how the company is dealing with the current workforce challenge and what the future looks like for the UK's 4th largest pharmacy multiple. It's all about exploiting opport...

Welcome to our brand new podcast series, Category Insight, where we delve into the nitty gritty of over the counter care and explore the many ways pharmacists and pharmacy team members can support the UK’s health. This month to kick off the new year we are talking about veganism and nutrition. Veganuary Campaign https://veganuary.com British Dietetic Association (BDA) https://www.bda.uk.com Infant...

In this edition of Pharmacy Magazine’s In Conversation With podcast, we talk to PAGB chief executive Michelle Riddalls about the impact of Covid on the OTC market, the trade body’s bold national self care blueprint for England, the revival of POM to P reclassifications and why pharmacy should embrace the GSL category.

First Talking Pharmacy podcast of 2022 and it's a bumper edition: kudos for Liverpool's version of Pharmacy First, a prominent GP calls for CPCS to be scrapped and absences due to Covid hit the sector hard. Plus an interview with Michelle Riddalls from PAGB.

The Talking Pharmacy Christmas Special sees the CIG editors choose their story of 2021, hand out some special end-of-year awards and give their predictions for 2022. Let us know if you agree! Happy Christmas to all our listeners. The podcast will return in January.

The CIG editors discuss the ailing CPCS thanks to a freedom of information request as Sajid Javid again calls for a ‘pharmacy first’ minor ailments model for England. Has NHS England got the memo? Plus the NPA celebrates its centenary by royal appointment and pharmacists in Northern Ireland vote to end medicines adherence service for new patients.

Good Week Bad Week is back – Covid vaccine buses and pharmacy's continuing amazing work on the vaccination frontline hindered by mixed messaging from the Government, warnings about the workforce crisis and pharmacy closures, and the RPS pledges to end its financial investments in fossil fuel companies. But which is good and which is bad? You may be surprised!

In this episode of Pharmacy Magazine’s Category Insight series, Richard Thomas talks to Dr Alastair Dixon, GP and Health Economist, and Ade Williams, Superintendent Pharmacist at Bedminster pharmacy in Bristol, about the frequent presentations of musculoskeletal pain in community pharmacy. Our experts consider the latest clinical guidance in this area, why topical NSAIDs should be ahead of oral NS...

In this episode of Pharmacy Magazine's In Conversation With podcast, Richard Thomas talks to Numark managing director Jeremy Meader about pharmacy's worsening funding crisis, how his members are coping on the ground, why hub & spoke may not be the answer for independents and what plans the expanding group has for 2022. Strong opinions, the big issues covered, Jeremy doesn't hold back – it's a grea...

The CIG editors are back with Good Week Bad Week – the big pharmacy chains in the US in the dock over opioid misdirection and misuse, the sale of LloydsPharmacy and AAH to Aurelius, and pharmacies in England blasting spectacularly through the 3 million mark for flu jabs all feature.

This special edition of the Talking Pharmacy podcast discusses mental health, stress and burnout in pharmacy with the profession’s charity Pharmacist Support. As this week sees the charity's successful ACTNow wellbeing initiative come to a close for another year, we take a look back at the campaign and highlight the vital support available from Pharmacist Support for those in the pharmacy family s...

The team reflect on last weekend's Pharmacy Show at the NEC in Birmingham, and in particular the main talking points in the keynote presentations of NHS England's director for primary care strategy and NHS contracts Ed Waller and the GPhC's outgoing chair Nigel Clarke. Arthur Walsh has been catching up with pharmacist, Labour MP and shadow minister for women and equalities Taiwo Owatemi, and we ha...

This week's pod celebrates the nation's brilliant pharmacy support staff as we pay tribute to this year's Recognition of Excellence Awards finalists and winners with Training Matters editor Helena Beer. Plus PSNC's hunt for a new chief, Scotland's chief pharmacist Alison Strath's first press interview in post, thank-you payments from Well Pharmacy and Pharmacy First for England? All feature in Goo...

In this week's episode the editors discuss doctor-pharmacist relations as the RPS meets the Royal College of General Practitioners, Big Pharma's response to the Covid pandemic and – strap yourself in – supervision is back on the agenda. Can the sector agree this time on a way forward? Plus hats off to this year's Independent Pharmacist Award winners and our weekly ACTNow catch-up with Pharmacist S...

How is the national fuel crisis hitting pharmacies? We unpack this fast moving (or not) story, while prescribing training and pharmacy team flu jabs get a shout out as the latest Good Week nominations. Plus we hear from sector charity Pharmacist Support, while Rhondda pharmacist Aled Roberts tells us how pharmacists in Wales are practising at the top of their licence.

In the news this week... over-prescribing, e-prescribing and (sadly) under-prescribing too. A major report from the Government in England to prevent unnecessary medicines prescribing, a national e-prescribing programme announced for Wales and the appalling state of cancer services post-Covid are all discussed. Is it time for pharmacy to play an enhanced role in cancer prevention? Plus this year's...

Good Week Bad Week returns as the CIG editors discuss Covid payments, more bad press about pharmacy and EHC, the expansion of the NMS – why is depression still omitted? – and why GPs and pharmacists should be working together not competing against each other over flu and Covid jabs. Plus we build up to next week's Recognition of Excellence Awards, our annual celebration of the very best of the UK'...