5.1 - Graham Prestwich - The Patient as a Project Manager

We’re back! This series we are focussing on the patient and their experiences of medicines and we start with a cracker! Graham brings his expertise working for the pharmaceutical industry and as a pharmacologist (and one of the people behind the superdrug Tamoxifen) to helping people understand and use their medicines through the fantastic website www.meandmymedicines.org.uk. We chat to Graham about his own experiences taking medicines and the approach of the health services to supporting patients in taking theirs. How much has it improved in the last twenty years or has it got worse? Graham argues that we are handing a huge responsibility to patients when we prescribe a medicine - is it fair to expect them to take on that burden without more support?In our micro discussion we are looking at the Sunday Times Article “The NHS is flatlining. Here’s how to save it right now”. In it, health Editor Shaun Lintern suggests 10 ideas that he thinks might ‘save the NHS’. Well, we reckon our guests can do better and so for this series we are asking for their ideas on how they might improve the health of the NHS - what will be their ingredient for ‘Aural Apothecary 2023 NHS Tonic!’As with all of our guests, Graham shares with us a Memorable Medicine, a career anthem and book that has influenced his career. The drug choice will leave a pleasant taste in the mouth…To get in touch follow us on Twitter @auralapothecary or email us at [email protected] . Don’t forget to rate us and comment wherever you have got this podcast from. You can listen to the Aural Apothecary playlist here; https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3OsWj4w8sxsvuwR9zMXgn5?si=tiHXrQI7QsGtSQwPyz1KBg You can view the Aural ApothecaryLibrary here; https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/31270100-paul-gimson?ref=nav_mybooks&shelf=the-aural-apothecary