Pharmacy Microteaches

Missing novel Covid treatments and cutting edge pharma tech? Well, don't worry because Evusheld is the newish monoclonal antibody thing that might be useful as a prophylactic treatment for those people for whom vaccines don't work. But how do we know what do we know, what don't we know, and how can we make this all comprehensible if someone asks us about it?

It's a quiz! About antibiotics! With Eve!

It's a bit niche (or is it?...) but why would a company give away it's shiny new drug for free? Why do these schemes exist? What's in it for the drug company? What's in it for the NHS? What are the risks? Overall - what's the point? Just under 8 minutes of your life needed to get a potted summary and find out!

A Friday Quiz! With Andrew! How many can you get?

Finally - they're here! But what exactly is an Integrated Care System or ICS, and why have they been created? Park your cynicism and have a whistle stop tour of ICSs, ICBs, ICPs to meet the saviours of the NHS. Plus bonus material on the previous iterations of SHAs, DHAs, PCGs, PCTs, CCGs, and any number of TLAs in the NHS! It's going to be an excellent way to spend 8 minutes of your life!

Another quiz! From Anniela!

To tie in with Medicines Safety Week, we're having a look at the Yellow Card Scheme - what is it, why do we have it, and why is it a really important thing that everyone should make efforts to join in and contribute their adverse event reports.

A quiz! With Chris!

Halloween-themed pharmacy 1 minute quiz, with the legendary Alison!

Pharmacy! Quiz! Hannah!

It's third time out for molnupiravir, with the preliminary results of the Panoramic study. Does molnupiravir work at preventing admission to hospital? Does Panoramic support the findings of Move-Out? How directly linked to our patients are the two trials? What on Earth is a Bayesian credible interval? There's a lot to cover in just over 8 minutes!

Week 5, with a new guest host Lucy, of medical gases fame!

In a trial first of a kind, this week we've rented out the podcast to the inestimable Chris Day and Katherine Stirling from Leeds Teaching Hospitals to talk about the practicalities of managing DOACs. Who should get what? What do you need to do when a patient is admitted to hospital? What do patients and GPs need to know when patients leave the hospital taking them? There's a Leeds flavour to thin...

Back for week 4 of the pharmacy nano-quiz, this time with Charlie "I used to be an MI pharmacist" Daniel

Lecanemab is the shiny new medicine for Alzheimer's that's been in the press - a 27% decrease in progression sounds great, plus it's a 'mab, so it must be cool. But how might it work, what do we actually know from the press release, and what do we need to have a closer look at?

Congratulations for finding your way back for week 3's quiz offering. Only just over a minute to test your pharmacy knowledge!

What's the point of an ePMA pharmacist? What's an ePMA? Why is FHIR cool and interesting? What does DM+D stand for? If acronyms are your thing, this podcast might be right up your street. And we also talk about how electronic prescribing systems are overall a good thing, and what pharmacy can contribute to making them better.

The pilot quiz wasn't hated, so here's the first official one!

In honour of World Patient Safety Day, we're asking the question - what's the point of Medication Safety Officers? Why do we have them? What do they do? What problems are they trying to solve and how can they make your life better? How are they like Liam Neeson? It's only just over a 7 minute listen to find out!

Friday micro-quiz - pilot episode!

Back on the "what's the point of..." various bits of pharmacy, today we're asking what's the point of medicines management nurses? What do they do, and why can't pharmacists just do everything?

Keeping on with the "What's The Point Of..." topics, this week we've dared to step outside of a hospital (though not too far) and are having a look at what a virtual ward pharmacist does. What do they actually do, and how is it different to a non-virtual ward pharmacist?

In the break before we get the "What's the point of... Medicines Management Nurses" episode, we're going back for a refresher on evidence based medicine and looking at the hierarchy of evidence triangle thingy. What are the different types of studies? Which ones are better than others? What does better mean? How does any of this link to Matthew Paris's map of Britain, made around 1250? It'll only...

It's finally here! The much anticipated (ok, maybe not anticipated - delayed may be a more accurate description) "what's the point of pharmacy procurement?" Why do we run out of medicines? Why do different areas of the country use different products? Why should this stuff be important to you? Only 8 minutes of your time to spend listening to this podcast to find out!

Welcome back! It's been a couple of weeks, but we're back with a new podcast now we've got a believable excuse to avoid talking about pharmacy procurement again. This time, we're going to talk about alpelisib, how it works, the problems you get into when you try to do indirect comparisons between different trials, and how data being confidential makes looking at stuff for yourself really difficult...