Pharmacy Magazine Podcast: Talking Pharmacy

In this episode of Pharmacy Magazine's In Conversation With podcast, Richard Thomas talks to the chief pharmacist at Boots, Marc Donovan, about pharmacy’s workforce crisis, the sector’s Covid response and why community pharmacy in England is lagging behind the Celtic nations. Other subjects covered include the profession’s fragmented state, growing problems with mental health and burnout among pha...

The Talking Pharmacy podcast is back with news, views, argument and debate on the big pharmacy issues of the week. Pharmacist shortages (or not), hub & spoke, rocketing smoking rates in the young and an exciting new drug for cardiovascular disease all feature – but is it a Good Week or a Bad Week? Plus Marc Donovan from Boots talks about empathy in pharmacy.

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In this special edition of Pharmacy Magazine’s In Conversation With podcast we revisit the most notable interviews of the year so far with some of pharmacy's leading movers and shakers that really got pharmacists talking. Featuring Victoria Steele, Thorrun Govind, Janice Perkins, Raj Nutan, Harry McQuillan and Gareth Hughes.

This week's special end-of-term edition of the pod is a 'best of' compilation of some of the year's major pharmacy talking points so far. Poisonous political blogs, soft soaping Government ministers, pioneering pharmacy technicians, declining RPS membership numbers and the demise of Pharmacy Voice all feature. Next week: the most memorable In Conversation With interviews.

CMA issues another hefty fine for price gouging while patients suffer, the ailing health of middle-aged Brits, pharmacy-GP turf wars over flu jabs start depressingly early, pointless law suits and the pharmacy teams copping unacceptable abuse on the Covid vaccination frontline. Plus – Rob's cat makes an unscheduled appearance

The RPS speaks out on women's health, gearing up for a busy flu season, concerns about pharmacy's place in a reconstructed NHS, Dukes departs and why the sector struggles to speak with one voice. Lively, passionate, controversial – it's a packed edition!

In this edition of Pharmacy Magazine’s “In Conversation With” podcast series, editor Richard Thomas talks patient safety with the former superintendent pharmacist at Well Pharmacy, Janice Perkins. Janice is chair of the Community Pharmacy Patient Safety Group and last month the group held a virtual conference with the title, "What can pharmacists learn from the Red Arrows about safety?" Janice pic...

The CIG editors discuss potential problems for pharmacy teams as the rules change over face coverings, controversial plans in England to raise the age for free prescriptions, Seb James gets into trouble on breakfast TV and Wales pilots protected learning time models for pharmacy professionals. Plus Janice Perkins on patient safety and why Right Said Fred went Deeply Dippy over masks – not sexy at...

Good Week Bad Week for…. Covid costs covered at last but deep concerns remain, long Covid, Meader tears into the Government, 10 years of pharmacy technician registration and an M1 rant

In Good Week, Bad Week there’s another appearance for our favourite (now former) Secretary of State and shout outs for both Community Pharmacy Scotland for their innovative work with a hypertension app and Community Pharmacy Northern Ireland’s report quantifying the value of pharmacy’s day to day work. Plus the GPhC in the high court, and a tired old sideswipe from a blog. All this in a fast and f...

In this episode of the In Conversation With podcast Pharmacy Magazine editor Richard Thomas chats to Thorrun Govind, community pharmacist, trainee lawyer and recently re-elected for a second term to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s English Pharmacy Board. One of the profession's brightest leadership talents, Thorrun talks about inclusion & diversity in pharmacy, mental health, the perils of soci...

Good Week, Bad Week (or even Decent Week?) for.... PSNC for deciding to delay regional rep elections so RSG can do its work, recruitment and retention in the pharmacy workforce, the end of an era and the start of a new one for the successor to UniChem and, finally, the P category. We dish out the plaudits and the brickbats, but do you agree? Plus Thorrun Govind on inclusion and diversity.

The CIG editors are back with Good Week Bad Week: PSNC advice audit, Recognition of Excellence Awards, FOI on SSPs, the retirement of a leading pharmacy personality, possible associate membership of the RPS for pharmacy technicians and, yes, recent seismic events in Westminster all feature. Oh, and some terrible cheese puns, for which we can only apologise...

In this week's pint-sized pod, GPs up in arms over NHSE guidance on the need to prioritise face-to-face appointments as pharmacy teams look on frankly baffled, the NPA fires up the battle bus over Boris funding promise and big questions for the RPS as membership numbers slide – all in the time it takes to enjoy a nice cup of tea. Get the kettle on.

In this episode of our In Conversation With podcast Pharmacy Magazine editor Richard Thomas talks to Victoria Steele, six months into her role as LloydsPharmacy’s first female superintendent pharmacist, about how the company is looking after the mental health of its pharmacy teams in the wake of the pandemic, the rapid growth of its Echo prescription delivery service and the unacceptable side of s...

Good Week Bad Week returns in a new format: the departure of Simon Stevens, dispensing doctors, the mental health of female care providers and contractors’ broken NHS payments system all feature. Plus toxic Twitter and an extract from an exclusive interview with LloydsPharmacy’s superintendent pharmacist, Victoria Steele. The full interview will be released next week. The Talking Pharmacy podcast...

The CIG editors get together for a podcast 'Spring Special', where each chooses their favourite story of the year so far. Immunisations (Covid and otherwise), abolition of the tampon tax, Harpreet Chana and mental health, Jackie Lewis and cancer care, and huge congratulations to the profession's newest pharmacists who've been through the mill and come out the other side – all feature. Chapeau!

The team is back with Good Week Bad Week: Duncan Rudkin, budesonide, happy 180 for Pharmacist Support, worrying smoking stats, sliding OTC sales, NICE guidance on chronic pain and vaccine patents all feature – and a wakeup call for online pharmacies over codeine. Plus… who is our latest pod super-fan? All revealed in a packed edition.

In this edition of the In Conversation With podcast we talk to Raj Nutan, head of Alphega Pharmacy, about the group’s Covid vaccination programme. Raj, who still practises as a pharmacist, also shares some of his feelings and experiences from being on the pharmacy frontline and pays tribute to independents for their role in the pandemic. More on Alphega's Covid vaccination scheme here - https://wb...

In a special Easter edition of the Talking Pharmacy podcast it’s a Good Week for Covid tests from pharmacies, the Office of Health Promotion, antipsychotic prescribing and pharmacists’ willingness to give annual coronavirus jabs. Bad Week for the common registration assessment and Government transparency over PPE contracts. In the interview hotseat: Raj Nutan, head of Alphega Pharmacy.

In the latest in our In Conversation With series of podcasts we talk to Gareth Hughes, superintendent pharmacist at the Sheppards Pharmacy group in South Wales. Gareth discusses how pharmacy in Wales pulled together over Covid, the bold vision for the sector’s future outlined in Delivering a Healthier Wales and how independent prescribing is unlocking community pharmacists’ clinical capability.

In this week’s podcast it’s a good week for MHRA enforcement, NHS text alerts and contractors in Wales for having their Covid costs covered, but a bad week for the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine in Europe – unjustifiably so. There’s a difference of opinion over former pharmacy minister Steve Brine’s contribution to the hub & spoke debate in the Commons and our Pharmacist on the Frontline intervi...

In this week’s podcast it’s a Bad Week for the high street, Greensill and the Review Steering Group, but a Good Week for diversity and inclusion in the profession, revalidation and the NHS. Plus some recommended bedtime reading, a potboiler on pharmacy and the management of long-term conditions.

In a special 4321 episode of the pod it’s a good week for Covid jabbing pharmacy technicians, Avicenna and supporters of BAME women in the NHS; bad week for Rudkin, Clarke, Sunak and CPCS referrals. Plus – ding dong – “the Rob” gets an eagerly anticipated delivery….