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Talking Meds - A PrescQIPP podcast

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Engaging conversations about medicines-related dilemmas. Talking Meds is hosted by Jonathan Underhill who, every two weeks, will chat to a fantastic guest about current medical issues and clinical dilemmas. Jonathan has a background as a hospital clinical pharmacist but worked for many years at the National Prescribing Centre (NPC) developing innovative ways of teaching therapeutics, evidence-based medicine and clinical decision making to prescribers and their support teams. Until recently, he worked at NICE as a consultant clinical adviser in their Medicines Optimisation Team. He is now Med...

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19. The importance of generalism in pharmacy with Helen Kilminster 30.05.2025 35:02

Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Meds and the PrescQIPP podcast, engaging conversations about medicines-related dilemmas. Today, your host Jonathan Underhill, Medicines Clinical Adviser at PrescQIPP, talks to Helen Kilminster about her role as Clinical Director of a PCN and the importance of having really good generalists in healthcare (spoiler alert, Jonathan and Helen both think pharmaci...

18. Sustainability challenges in medicines, the Greener Pharmacy Toolkit with Minna Eii 16.05.2025 25:20

Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Meds and the PrescQIPP podcast, engaging conversations about medicines-related dilemmas. Today, your host Jonathan Underhill, Medicines Clinical Adviser at PrescQIPP, talks to Minna Eii about the sustainability challenges for medicines. Minna is an Acute Medicine hospital pharmacist based in the northeast. She is the co-founder of an environmentally consci...

17. Caring about medicines in care homes with Jonathan and Sundus: Medicines safety issues 02.05.2025 23:31

Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Meds and the PrescQIPP podcast, engaging conversations about medicines-related dilemmas. Today, your host Jonathan Underhill, Medicines Clinical Adviser at PrescQIPP, continues the series of podcasts called 'Caring about medicines in Care Homes with Jonathan and Sundus'. Here, Jonathan talks to Sundus Jawad who works for NHS Frimley, and has over...

16. Management of obesity with Philip Newland-Jones 18.04.2025 39:19

Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Meds and the PrescQIPP podcast, engaging conversations about medicines-related dilemmas. Today, your host Jonathan Underhill, Medicines Clinical Adviser at PrescQIPP, talks to Philip Newland-Jones about new treatments for obesity and the updated NICE guideline from January 2025. Philip is a Consultant Pharmacist in Diabetes and Endocrinology and leads a lar...

15. Caring about medicines in care homes with Jonathan and Sundus; Introduction to the series 04.04.2025 24:36

Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Meds and the PrescQIPP podcast, engaging conversations about medicines-related dilemmas. Today, your host Jonathan Underhill, Medicines Clinical Adviser at PrescQIPP, introduces the first episode of a new series called 'Caring about medicines in Care Homes with Jonathan and Sundus'. We meet Sundus Jawad, who works for NHS Frimley, and has over 25...

14. The importance of mentoring to encourage personal progress with Hadeel Mohamed 21.03.2025 30:46

Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Meds and the PrescQIPP podcast, engaging conversations about medicines-related dilemmas. Today, your host Jonathan Underhill, Medicines Clinical Adviser at PrescQIPP, talks to Hadeel Mohamed about a fantastic programme she co-leads to provide mentorship for female pharmacists from an ethnically diverse background – ENIGMA. Hadeel is a senior pharmacist pres...

13. Using the GP Evidence website with Dr Julian Treadwell 07.03.2025 37:21

Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Meds and the PrescQIPP podcast, engaging conversations about medicines-related dilemmas. Today, your host Jonathan Underhill, Medicines Clinical Adviser at PrescQIPP, talks to Dr Julian Treadwell, an academic GP who has developed the absolutely fabulous resource GP Evidence . Julian has worked for many years in UK General Practice and is keenly interested i...

12. Sensible prescribing in older people with Jonathan and Lucy; Statins 21.02.2025 18:47

In this episode of Talking Meds we continue the series ‘Sensible prescribing in Older people with Jonathan and Lucy' with a discussion between Jonathan Underhill and Dr Lucy Pollock about the prescribing of statins. So we meet Mrs Evans, an 87 year old lady who lives with her daughter in a ‘granny flat’ annex of her house. She has several co-morbidites including type 2 diabetes, hypertension,...

11. Updates to the NICE/BTS/SIGN asthma guideline with Prof. Anna Murphy and Ravijyot Saggu 07.02.2025 31:37

Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Meds and the PrescQIPP podcast, engaging conversations about medicines-related dilemmas. Today, your host Jonathan Underhill, Medicines Clinical Adviser at PrescQIPP, talks to Prof Anna Murphy and Rajijyot Saggu – two talented and eminent pharmacists who work in the field of respiratory disease. We discuss the latest update the asthma guideline from NICE -...

10. Sensible prescribing in older people with Jonathan and Lucy; Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction 24.01.2025 21:18

Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Meds and the Presqipp podcast, engaging conversations about medicines-related dilemmas. Today, your host Jonathan Underhill, Medicines Clinical Adviser at PrescQIPP, continues the series within the Talking Meds podcast called ‘Sensible prescribing in Older people with Jonathan and Lucy. Today Jonathan and Lucy talk about the sensible management of heart fa...

9. Rebalancing medicine with Neal Maskrey 10.01.2025 39:09

Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Meds and the Presqipp podcast, engaging conversations about medicines-related dilemmas. Today, your host Jonathan Underhill, Medicines Clinical Adviser at Presqipp, talks to Professor Neal Maskrey about his new book, Rebalancing Medicine. Neal was a GP in Yorkshire for 20 years and continues to work extensively supporting postgraduate training with GP Train...

8. Festive prescribing in older people with Jonathan and Lucy; Treatment breaks 27.12.2024 18:05

Welcome to this special festive edition of Talking Meds and the Presqipp podcast, engaging conversations about medicines-related dilemmas. Today, your host Jonathan Underhill, Medicines Clinical Adviser at Presqipp, and Dr Lucy Pollock, consultant geriatrician and author, talk about drug holidays, often known as treatment breaks. Sometimes it can be helpful to consider temporarily stopping a pers...

7. Update to the NICE guideline on menopause with Hayley Berry 13.12.2024 30:04

Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Meds and the PrescQIPP podcast, engaging conversations about medicines-related dilemmas. Today, your host Jonathan Underhill, Medicines Clinical Adviser at PrescQIPP, talks to Hayley Berry about the update to the NICE Guideline on the identification and management of the menopause, published in November 2024. Hayley has a background in community pharmacy a...

6. Sensible prescribing in older people with Jonathan and Lucy; Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction 29.11.2024 22:08

Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Meds on the PrescQIPP podcast, engaging conversations about medicines-related dilemmas. Today, your host Jonathan Underhill, Medicines Clinical Adviser at PrescQIPP, continues the series within the Talking Meds podcast called ‘Sensible prescribing in Older people with Jonathan and Lucy’. Today, Jonathan and Lucy talk about the identification AND sensible m...

5. The new repeat prescribing toolkit from RPS/RCGP with Clare Howard 15.11.2024 26:13

Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Meds on the PrescQIPP podcast, engaging conversations about medicines-related dilemmas. Today, your host Jonathan Underhill talks to Clare Howard, Clinical Lead for Medicines Optimisation at Health Innovation Wessex, about the development of the Repeat Prescribing Toolkit she led on behalf of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and Royal College of General Pr...

4. Sensible prescribing in older people with Jonathan and Lucy; Weighing up the benefits and harms of treatments 01.11.2024 14:15

Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Meds and the PrescQIPP podcast, engaging conversations about medicines-related dilemmas. Today, your host Jonathan Underhill, Medicines Clinical Adviser at PrescQIPP, continues the series within the Talking Meds podcast called ‘Sensible prescribing in Older people with Jonathan and Lucy’. Jonathan and Lucy discuss Brenda, an older lady who has become frail...

3. Safely stopping antidepressants with Dr Mark Horowitz 18.10.2024 37:28

Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Meds and the PrescQIPP podcast, engaging conversations about medicines-related dilemmas. Today Jonathan Underhill, Medicines Clinical Adviser at PrescQIPP, talks to Dr Mark Horowitz about how to safely stop antidepressants and the importance of tapering dose reduction slowly to reduce the risk of withdrawal symptoms. Dr Mark Horowitz is a training psychia...

2. Sensible prescribing in older people with Jonathan and Lucy; Prescribing cascades 04.10.2024 15:06

Welcome to the 2nd episode of Talking Meds and the PrescQIPP podcast, engaging conversations about medicines-related dilemmas. Today your host Jonathan Underhill, Medicines Clinical Adviser at PrescQIPP, introduces a new series within the Talking Meds podcast called ‘Sensible prescribing in Older people with Jonathan and Lucy’. Jonathan and Dr Lucy Pollock outline their plan to share some real pa...

1. A day in the life of a primary care based clinical pharmacist with Magnus Hird 20.09.2024 29:39

Welcome to the first episode of Talking Meds and the PrescQIPP podcast, engaging conversations about medicines-related dilemmas. Today, your host Jonathan Underhill, Medicines Clinical Adviser at PrescQIPP, talks to Magnus Hird about his role, how he prioritises people for medication review as well as two current safety issues that have recently been in the news. Magnus is a pioneer of clinical ph...

Talking Meds - Engaging conversations about medicines-related dilemmas 29.08.2024 1:51

We are excited to share a clip of our new podcast, 'Talking Meds' with our host Jonathan Underhill and guests, which launces on 20 September. Talking Meds will be available to listen to via your usual podcast system and a new episode will come out every fortnight, on the first and third Friday of each month. Jonathan Underhill has a background as a hospital clinical pharmacist but worked...