Pharmacy Magazine Podcast: Talking Pharmacy

In this week’s pod: good week for pharmacists and end-of-life care, Medicine Box, Superdrug and pharmacy technicians. Bad week for patient safety reporting, pharmacy closures in deprived areas, prescription charges and Matty H. Plus community pharmacists’ role in antimicrobial stewardship and hopes dashed of the pubs opening in Cardiff for Wales vs England. Shame.

In this Category Insight podcast we look at men’s health and the sensitive subject of erection problems. Pharmacy Magazine editor Richard Thomas talks to Martin Tod, chief executive of the Men’s Health Forum, Ade Williams, award winning pharmacist at Bedminster Pharmacy in Bristol and Rob Elliott, Viatris marketing director, manufacturer of Viagra Connect, about the physical and psychological impa...

In this week’s pod: good week for widening oral contraceptive access, antimicrobial stewardship and pharmacists jabbing away on the Covid frontline. Bad week for LloydsPharmacy, strike action talk and pharmacy bodies missing a trick over Boris Johnson’s wish to see pharmacists reimbursed for Covid costs as soon as possible – or three billboards (and a few buses) outside the Palace of Westminster…

Good Week Bad Week returns – the prov-reg fiasco, vaccinations and a major consumer survey looking at pharmacy advice all feature. Plus contractors face a huge hit over methadone fees, Simon Dukes talks tough and the PDA invokes the Dunkirk spirit. Plus why the month of February is an infrequent source of neat nerdy joy...

In the latest in our In Conversion With podcast series we talk to Community Pharmacy Scotland chief executive Harry McQuillan about how pharmacy teams in Scotland have stepped up to the challenges of Covid, why independent prescribing is reengineering the clinical role of community pharmacy north of the border and what’s the secret behind the constructive relationship that the sector enjoys with t...

Covid vaccination looms large this week. Hurrah for Ashburton Prescribing Consultants; boo for the postcode lottery and professional co-operation in Hampshire. The CIG editors applaud awareness campaigns and payment for deliveries in Scotland, but have concerns about the operation of the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service. In the interview slot, Community Pharmacy Scotland chief executive H...

Good Week Bad Week is back in this week's podcast – POM to GSL switches, Pharmacy2U, Nadhim Zahawi, Professor Sir Roy Anderson, abuse of pharmacy staff and abolition of the tampon tax all feature. Plus not being wise in our own eyes (literally) and fuming over pavement joggers spewing their spittle.

This week's podcast discusses community pharmacy's role in the Covid vaccination drive. Will the sector play a major part in the biggest immunisation programme in the history of the NHS, or not? Plus the CIG editors reveal their new year's resolutions and hopes for pharmacy in 2021.

In a special edition of the Talking Pharmacy podcast, the CIG editors look back at the events of 2020 in pharmacy and select the stories and interviews that stood out for them in a dramatic and difficult year. Coronavirus dominated the news agenda but plenty of other issues also grabbed the headlines in a year that saw the very best of community pharmacy. Here's to a better, safer, less eventful 2...

It's the Talking Pharmacy podcast Christmas special! The CIG editors get together over minced pies and mulled wine to award Christmas cracker prizes to the Pharmacy Person of the Year, Pharmacy Organisation of the Year, Biggest Disappointment of the Year and Sentence That We Never Want To Write Again in 2021. Plus pharmacy pun-tastic Christmas carols and seasonal messages from friends of the pod –...

In this week's pod: good week for award-winning Community Pharmacy Scotland, self care and Angela Merkel; bad week for pharmaceutical wholesalers, political journalists and Brexit. Also – sorry, where did you say vanilla extract came from?

In this week's podcast: Poundland under fire over paracetamol multi-buys, good week for Matt Hancock (yes, really) and pharmacy teams in Scotland get an unexpected Christmas bonus. Also pharmacy lauded over dementia care during the pandemic, a date is finally set for the registration exam and the sector saves 35,000 GP consultations a week in Wales. Plus South African lottery numbers and our favou...

In this week's podcast we celebrate the nation's wonderful pharmacy support staff as the spotlight is thrown onto the Recognition of Excellence Awards, organised by Training Matters magazine. It is the only national awards scheme exclusively for community pharmacy team members that recognises and rewards their fantastic work, going above and beyond in supporting their local communities. See a full...

In this week's podcast: Amazon eyes up the US pharmacy market, the latest on the Wright review and the demise of FMD. Also good week for Elsy Gomez Campos of the UK Black Pharmacist Association, bad week for Dominic Cummings – plus aspirin and Covid, freedom of the (pharmacy) press, the shocking NAO report and RIP Liverpool great, Ray Clemence

This week's podcast sees the CIG editors each send a postcard from home with their take on the week's events in pharmacy. The sector's role in a national Covid vaccination programme, promised twice-weekly testing for pharmacy staff, Jo Churchill's letter, Sandra Gidley and independent prescribing training as part of the foundation year all feature. As does Spanish golfer Jon Rahm's Augusta hole-in...

This week's podcast pores over all the current big issues in pharmacy including calls for EHC to be made GSL, another own goal for NHSE in its relations with the pharmacy press, good week for Mark Lyonette and Andrew Lane of the NPA, bad week for GPhC over its fitness to practise processes – plus pharmacy technicians, patient safety reporting, Covid testing (again), the US presidential election (a...

In the latest in our In Conversion With podcast series Pharmacy Magazine editor Richard Thomas talks to NPA chief executive Mark Lyonette about pharmacy’s continuing fight for proper recognition and its funding struggles, both severely exacerbated by the Covid crisis. Also discussed is the public perception of pharmacy, workplace pressures, pharmacy’s relationship with NHS England and the importan...

On this week's podcast: tribulations continue for test & trace, why the more certain someone is about Covid-19 the less you should trust them and welcome news at last over PPE for pharmacy teams. Good week Andy Burnham, bad week Purdue Pharma, continuing struggles at Boots and frustration for pharmacists before the ancient autumn ritual of Revalidation Weekend...

The latest in our In Conversation With series features an exclusive interview with AIM chief executive Leyla Hannbeck, who talks about funding and recognition for pharmacy, pharmacy’s response to the Covid crisis, what AIM members want from the Wright review, and describes her personal vision for the organisation after just over a year in charge. Also, funding issues apart, does she detect a chang...

On the podcast this week: test & trace tribulations, the brilliant pharmacy-run flu vaccination centre in Preston, good news on Priadel, bad week for Rowlands, quotas raise their ugly head again, a lively debate on the ‘conscience clause', Rishi Sunak's slipping halo, James Bond and lots more. You'll be left both shaken and stirred.

This week's podcast discusses the provisionally registered pharmacists fiasco, the uplifting story of London bus driver-turned-pharmacist Israel Marfo and Pharmacy2U potentially in hot water – again – over an advertising claim. Leyla Hannbeck from AIM is in the interview hotseat plus pharmacy whistleblowers, haute cuisine in an Irish prison and bostin' sayings from the Black Country...

This week's podcast picks through the bones of the first ever virtual LPC conference as the CIG editors discuss the main talking points. Also a mixed week for the flu vaccination service, Echo in hot water over an ad and foraging along the leafy lanes of Hampshire.

Pharmacy Magazine's Richard Thomas and Rob Darracott from P3pharmacy look ahead to tomorrow's first ever virtual LPC conference and discuss possible talking points such as the latest state of play with funding negotiations and what's next for the Wright Review.

This week's podcast includes reaction to the Simon Dukes interview plus some lively discussion about our exclusive survey on the impact of virtual GP consultations on pharmacy with some alarming findings. Plus the EY report – is this the end of pharmacy? – GPs letting the side down (again) over flu jabs and Wolves' shocking third strip.

An exclusive interview with PSNC's Simon Dukes talking about pharmacy's funding crisis, the latest state of play with negotiations and why contractors should stop offering services for free.