29. Sensible prescribing of nutritional products with Alison Smith

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, welcomes back a former guest Philip Newland-Jones and says hello to a new guest Sarah Le Brocq to talk about obesity. In particular they discuss the health inequalities we are seeing with regard to access to new obesity medicines and the challenges this brings. They also look to the futur...

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 Mohammed and Justine Tomlinson about medication discharge planning challenges, particularly for the frail elderly. Hadeel is a senior pharmacist prescriber who began her career as a hospital pharmacist in Manchester before relocating to Yorkshire in 2015, where she transit...

Welcome to this episode of Talking Meds where your host, Jonathan Underhill, Medicines Clinical Adviser at PrescQIPP, is joined by Beryl Navti to talk about medicines optimisation issues in the treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD. Beryl is a Consultant Pharmacist for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) at North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT), where she works closely with pharmacy leads and the wider multidisciplinary team to promote safe pre...

Welcome to this episode of Talking Meds where your host, Jonathan Underhill, Medicines Clinical Adviser at PrescQIPP, talks to Prof Sailesh Mishra and we are going to talk about the vexing topic of pain management. Sailesh is a Consultant in Pain Management & anaesthesia at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle Upon Tyne. He started his medical career in 1991, qualified as a doctor in 1997 and started his journey as an anaesthetic and pain management doctor in 1998. His interests in p...

Welcome to this episode of Talking Meds where your host, Jonathan Underhill, Medicines Clinical Adviser at PrescQIPP, talks to Monica Boulton about the role of social prescribing. Social prescribing involves connecting people to activities, groups and support to improve their health and wellbeing. Many things that affect our health, like loneliness, debt, stress or poor housing, can't be treated by medicine alone. Social prescribing connects people to non-medical support to address thes...