Pharmacy Magazine Podcast: Talking Pharmacy

Featuring 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. The full interview will appear next week as part of our "In Conversation With..." podcast series. Also on the pod: GPs in the money, why we'll miss this year's Pharmacy Show, the continent of Africa and Rob's ironing

This week's podcast includes extracts from Monday's live Pharmacy Magazine/P3pharmacy webcast on the Wright Review: What Next for LPCs? Plus a fond farewell to one of pharmacy's good guys and why the Government is currently resembling a ship of fools... Wright Review: What Next for LPCs? - https://www.pharmacymagazine.co.uk/1st-webinar

This week's pod has all the regular features: Good Week Bad Week, Any Other Business, plus a Postcard from Dublin and the Talking Pharmacy Rantline opens for business. Also vaccines, testing, early education & training – and who's been splashing out with their RPS Rewards points...

We talk to the UK Black Pharmacists Association about racism, discrimination and inequality in pharmacy in a powerful interview. Also the GPhC in the firing line once more over premises fees hike, thwarted holidays and the Duchess of Cornwall.

Community pharmacist and stand up comedian Peter Kelly talks about laughing with patients, finding inspiration in getting booed off at The Comedy Store after telling one joke, and draws a parallel between the the worlds of comedy and drug discovery. We discuss an “interesting" week for the GPhC, the first school of pharmacy pharmacy technician qualification, hub and spoke business models and deliv...

James Tibbs from award-winning AR Pharmacy in Totton talks to us about how his business got through the Covid crisis, why he's getting ready for the flu season even at the height of summer and his exciting plans for the future. Also mask refuseniks, Russian interference and pharmacy ministers (again).

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Features an exclusive interview with shadow health minister Alex Norris MP. Hailing community pharmacy as the big success story of the Covid crisis, he talks candidly about the sector's failing financial model, unrealised potential and hub & spoke. His message to the Government: mess with a trusted and adaptable network at your peril. Also – the CIG editors discuss the past week's events in pharma...

The CIG editors discuss inclusion and diversity, the Society's finances and early reaction to the Wright review. Plus amazing pharmacy support staff, recognising outstanding practice – and is that a golden sky at the end of a storm? Interview with Oxfordshire pharmacy owner Stuart Gale.

In a Talking Pharmacy podcast exclusive, we talk to Professor David Wright about his review into contractor representation and support, published today (June 19). It's radical, far-reaching and would represent the biggest shakeup in contractor politics for decades. The CIG editors pick over the proposals and give their verdict. Plus a new deal for pharmacy in Wales, dexamethasone and goal-line tec...

We chat to Ali Sparkes, owner of The Health Dispensary in Neath, South Wales, about coping with Covid and mental health. Plus antibody testing in Jersey, what's next for the pharmacy flu vaccination service, the power of Love Island – and football's back!

James Wood from Community Pharmacy Surrey & Sussex gives a local view of the Covid crisis, highlighting the tremendous work of contractors but also with an eye to the future. Plus a rant about Hancock, politicians with no trousers and some brilliant original music.

RPS president Sandra Gidley tells the Pharmacy Magazine Talking Covid podcast how the Society has led from the front during the pandemic and addresses the question – where does pharmacy go from here? Also script switching, testing tribulations, chloroquine and Barnard Castle.

The CIG editors discuss the findings from the latest Coping with Covid survey and consider the performance of the pharmacy bodies during the crisis. Plus novice novel writing, Covid hair cuts and Welsh hymn singing. Interview with Danielle Hunt from Pharmacist Support

The ramifications of the Government's belated but welcome U-turn on including pharmacists in its death in service scheme are debated in this week's Pharmacy Magazine Talking Covid podcast, as the CIG editors ask – how could ministers have initially got it so badly wrong? Plus a blow for working conditions in pharmacy, naked German doctors, who'd be a medical advisor for Trump and some poetry. This...

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The CIG editors dip their toes into the treacherous waters of coronavirus testing in this week's Pharmacy Magazine Talking Covid podcast. Plus NHS haters, swearing health ministers and why the Pope is the answer to medicines shortages. This week's pharmacist on the front line is Reena Barai

Testing (again), Hancock's badges and the Pandemic Delivery Service get the treatment from the CIG editors but tribute is paid to the generosity and ingenuity of the Great British Public. Plus our interview from the front line: pharmacy owner Tony Schofield

Covid-19 testing, pharmacy in the media and the mood of pharmacists on the frontline are among the subjects discussed in this week's pod. Find out who's had a good – and bad – week in the eyes of the CIG editors and in a powerful interview award-winning Bristol pharmacist Ade Williams explains why he feels let down by the system.

Matt Hancock calls it 'funding' but pharmacies are calling it a loan. Cash injections and PPE are the big topics in this week's podcast, which also features an exclusive interview with RPS Scotland chair Jonathan Burton.

This week has seen community pharmacies face impossible conditions. Will the powers that be step in to offer support, we ask in a new round table podcast.