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The Aural Apothecary — 90 episodes

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8.10 From HRT to Headlines, with Dr Ellie Cannon

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8.9 How to take Drugs with Professor Nick Barber

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8.8 Biography Before Biology: Professor Sir Gregor Smith and Critical Connections

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8.7 Dr Lena Frischlich - Seeing isn’t Believing - Medicines in the Age of Misinformation

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8.6 Anecdotes & Antidotes - 5 Years of Medicines and Memories

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8.5 There’s an App for That: Medicines in the Digital NHS with Rahul Singal

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Live from Oxford with Professor Ben Goldacre - Bad Pharma, Good Data, Better Care

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The Aural Apothecary Almanac 2025

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8.4 Professor Alistair Boxall - From Prescription to Pollution: The Unseen Impact of Medicines in Our Waterways

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8.3 Brian MacKenna - In God we Trust : All Others Must Bring Data

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8.2 Dr Laurence Gray - The Dose Maketh the Poison

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8.1 Dr Jessica Morley. Will Artificial Intelligence save the NHS?

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7.8 Dr Margaret McCartney - Conflicts of Interest and the Skinny Jabs

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7.7 Diving into the Deep End - The Aural Apothecary Analyses: The Inverse Care Law.

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7.6 Professor Lauren Walker - The trials and tribulations of a Clinical Pharmacologist

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7.5 - Deprescribing from Down Under - Dr Emily Reeve

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The Aural Apothecary Almanac 2024. Weight loss drugs, Assisted dying and the Weight of the British National Formulary

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7.4 The Aural Apothecary Analyses! When Guidelines Go Wrong - A Medicines Safety Special with Dr Matthew Jones and Angela Carrington

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7.3 John Seddon - Saving the NHS through system change

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7.2 - Back to the Future! Dr Berwyn Owen and The Evolution of Community Pharmacy.

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7.1 The Aural Apothecary Analyses! Statins and Shared Decision Making, with Brian Finney and Dr Sam Finnikin

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6.10 Tommy Whitelaw - Intelligent Kindness & Gentle Honesty - listening is the best medicine

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6.9 Ann-Marie Goacher. The Eyes: A Window to Our Health

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6.8 Maricarmen Climént - Risky Business - How to communicate uncertainty

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6.7 Dr Esther Clift DClinP - Joining the Dots; Frailty & Physiotherapy

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6.6 Dr Catherine Labinjoh - Realistic Medicine & The Drug Portal to The World…

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6.5 Alison Tennant - Won’t someone think of the children?

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6.4 Professor Tony Avery OBE - The Problem with Prescribing?

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6.3  - Sally Kneath, Let's talk about Sex - Living with HIV

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6.2 Professor Bapu Jena - Freakonomics MD - Improving healthcare through natural experimentation

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6.1 Rory Cellan-Jones - Life as a Mover and Shaker - living with Parkinson's disease

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The Aural Apothecary Almanac 2023 - Artificial Intelligence, the Year of Community Pharmacy and the impact of loss

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5.10 Professor Neal Maskrey - Rebalancing Medicine

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5.9 - Louise Trewern - Joining the dots around chronic pain

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5.8 - Paul Woodgate - The Patient Voice and the lived reality of Polypharmacy

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5.7 Louise Jenkins and Cystic Fibrosis - Not part of my life, but my whole life

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5.6 - Dr Liz O' Riordan - The Breast Surgeon who got Breast Cancer

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5.5 - Trevor Silvester. Turn on, Tune in, (Don’t) Drop Out - Psychedelics & Cognitive Hypnotherapy

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5.4 - Rachel Power - Communication, Communication, Communication.

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Aural Apothecary Archives: Tracy Brown – What is Analgesic Stewardship

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5.3 - Professor Alf Collins: No decision about me, without me

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Aural Apothecary Archives : Jonathan Underhill, Shared Decision Making , NICE and POOs not DOOs

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5.2 - Deborah Duval. Let me live! Life as a transplant recipient

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5.1 - Graham Prestwich - The Patient as a Project Manager

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The Aural Apothecary Almanac 2022 – Polypharmacy, the Menopause and Growing old with Medicines

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Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week 2022 - Phil Howard

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4.10 – Professor Claire Thompson and Badly Behaved Molecules

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4.9 - Dr Ben Allen - Failure Demand in General Practice

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4.8 - Dave Murdoch and the life of a Paramedic - From Everest to Dorset

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4.7 - Professor Debi Bhattacharya. System Level Change in The Danger Zone.

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4.6 Dr Wasim Baqir – Shine On - Changing lives through improved medicines use in Care Homes.

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Bonus Episode - a Summer Scorcher! Kulpna Daya & Professor Stephen Bazire – Live at the Clinical Pharmacy Congress!

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4.5 Professor Mahendra Patel OBE - Health Inequalities and the Bradford Polo Mint

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4.4 - Dr Nkiruka Umaru. Tea, cake and medicines.

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4.3 – Professor Delyth James – Applying behavioural change - to yourself

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4.2 – Rebecca Hunter – Medicines behind Bars

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4.1 - Getting Older and how to deal with it - with bestselling author Dr Lucy Pollock

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Live at the Cardiff Science Festival! Jamie Brewster and the patient as a battlefield.

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3.10 - Dr Pete Turton - Social Media, Poison and the Eurovision Song Contest.

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3.9 – Tracy Brown – What is Analgesic Stewardship?

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3.8 - Stephen Webber - Clinical Negligence and the perils of a no-fault compensation system.

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3.7 - Lisa Green - Getting the Job Done - Mental Health, Veterinary Pharmacy and making people laugh at work

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It's a Wonderful Life - The Aural Apothecary Christmas Special 2021

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3.6 - Tracy Lyons - Planetary Health, The Carbon footprint of Medicines - and exploding batteries.

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3.5 - Dr Diane Ashiru-Oredope - Antimicrobial Resistance - what do you do when you don’t know what to do...

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3.4 Professor James McCormack - Bohemian Polypharmacy

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3.3 - Professor Sally Lewis - Value Based Rock, PROMS and Goldilocks Healthcare

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3.2 - Chris Martin - Innovation, Spread, Scale - and Hymns

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3.1 - Dr Louise Newson - The Menopause Doctor. Prescription charges - fair or a tax on the sick?

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2.10 - Dr Mark Holland - The Needy not the Noisy

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2.9 - Professor Dave Slawson - Information Mastery - We are not in Kansas anymore…

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2.8 - Lelly Oboh - Wicked Problems, Mindlines and the Stripey Zebra.

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2.7 - Fiona Peniston-Bird - Non-Medical Prescribing & Competency frameworks - what's the point?

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2.6 - Dr Mark Porter MBE - It shouldn't happen to a vet.

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2.5 - Professor Rachel Elliott - The Empty Chair and Technology Solutionism

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2.4 - Jill Cruikshank - Advice, Referral, Treatment - The ART of Pharmacy in Scotland

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2.3 - Dr Tessa Lewis - NO-TEARS, Thinking Fast & Slow and Chronic Kidney Injury

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2.2 - Dr Karen Sankey - Fixing the medical model - a squash and squeeze

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2.1 - Jonathan Underhill, Shared Decision Making, NICE and POOs - not DOOs.

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10 - Samantha Quaye, the role of pharmacy technicians and our end of series quiz

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9 - Angela Carrington - The World Health Organisation's Medicines Safety Challenge

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8 - Ravi Sharma - Pharmacogenomics, Penicillin de-labelling and promoting the pharmacy profession in a pandemic.

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7 - Johnathan Laird- What is a Pharmacist and Amazon’s place in healthcare?

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6 - Prof Mark Taubert, end of life care and a letter to David Bowie

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5 - Lindsay Harper, the treatment of obesity and resilience in healthcare.

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SIX NATIONS SPECIAL 2021. John Devereux - British Lion, Welsh International and Integrated Healthcare Manager.

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4. Dr Lawrence Brad, working with pharmacists multidisciplinary education and the science of Nudge.

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3. Dr Amira Guirguis, supporting the second victim and how to run a drug cartel.

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2 - Clare Howard and Multimorbidity

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1 - Meet the Apothecaries.