Pharmacy In Practice Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

I was very pleased to be joined by Paul Forsyth and Barry Maguire to discuss the application of the collaborative care model in pharmacy. Paul, Barry and I explore how the collaborative care model may be applied to the pharmacy profession. Alienation, detachment general demoralisation and isolation are all consequences of pharmacists not feeling truly empowered to work autonomously in their role. Key questions discussed

• What is the value of collaboration in the workplace?
• How can the profession of pharmacy promote collaboration and autonomy among its members to improve job satisfaction and patient care?
• How can the profession of pharmacy address the issue of alienation and anxiety among its members?
• What is the impact of the changing roles in pharmacy on job satisfaction and professional identity?
• Why is debate and discussion about values and identity important?

Read the full paper below

The Collaborative Care Model: Realizing healthcare values and increasing responsiveness in the pharmacy workforce

Georgia C. Richards DPhil (Oxon), BSc (Hons I) is a research fellow at the University of Oxford. We sat down to discuss fundamentally why healthcare, and specifically pharmacy, appears to be consistently poor at reporting, sharing and learning from significant and fatal incidents involving patients.

• EBM Special Study Theme (SST) Lead for the undergraduate medical school, CEBM
• Research Fellow, ODI
• Associate Editor, BMJ EBM
• Fellow, RROx

Georgia coordinates and teaches Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) and systematic review modules for the undergraduate Medical School. She has a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil/PhD) in Epidemiology from the University of Oxford (2021) and expertise in quantitative observational research, open data, open science and evidence synthesis. Georgia's list of publications is here. 

Georgia founded and leads the Preventable Deaths Tracker. She is an Open Data Institute (ODI) Research Fellow, an Associate Editor of BMJ Evidence Based Medicine, a Fellow of Reproducible Research Oxford (RROx), a Centre for Open Science (COS) Ambassador, a member of the Catalogue of Bias Collaboration, on the Steering Group for the Declaration to Improve Health Research, and a founding member of the Transparent & Open Research Collaboration in Health (TORCH).

Georgia welcomes supervision queries from undergraduate and graduate students on taught and research programmes who are interested in pursuing research in the following areas: 

• patient safety, preventable deaths, and harms in healthcare 
• pharmaco-epidemiology and pharmaco-device-vigilance
• open science, open data, and meta-research 

Georgia also welcomes contributions to the Preventable Deaths Tracker and Oxford Catalogue of Opioids.

Here are some links I mentioned in the podcast.

1. https://preventabledeathstracker.net/
2. Substack newsletter: https://preventabledeaths.substack.com/
3. Opioid deaths: https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdad147
4. Medicine deaths: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40264-023-01274-8
5. Responses using FOI’s https://doi.org/10.1007/s40264-017-0588-0
6. SR of medicine-related PFDs: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40290-023-00486-8
7. Impact of covid on medicine-related deaths: https://www.bps.ac.uk/publishing/pharmacology-matters/august-2022/pandemics,-pharmacology,-and-preventable-deaths
8. Deaths during covid: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjebm-2021-111834
9. The BJGP podcast on the private prescribing of opioids I mentioned came out last week which may be of interest: https://www.bjgplife.com/143
   

 

Is the rise of robotics in the sector a threat or an opportunity?

• Learn about the range of robotic options available in pharmacy.
• Hear first-hand feedback about the use of the various types of robots.
• Understand the workflow implications.
• Find out about the return on investment on the various robots on the market.
• Understand some of the downsides of robots.
• Learn about the long term impact of the various robots on the future of community pharmacy.

James Semple

Community pharmacy contractor

James Semple, Contractor and Vice-chairman of the Community Pharmacy Scotland Board.

Kevin Murphy

Co-founder of Medpoint

Superintendent Pharmacist at Wellbeing Pharmacies Group, Co-founder and Clinical Director at Acorn.

You can view all the sessions at the Future Pharmacist conference by clicking here. 

Thank you to our conference sponsors Wylie And Bisset. Find out more here.

 A new report commissioned by Community Pharmacy Scotland (CPS) demonstrates the popularity of the Minor Ailment Service (MAS) among patients, with close to 90% of participants rating the overall service 10 out of 10 for satisfaction and the overwhelming majority rating their experience of consultations as ‘Excellent’.

William Johnson is a community pharmacist locum working in Scotland. He was kind enough to take some time out to chat to us about the issues facing locum community pharmacists in Scotland.  

The College of Mental Health Pharmacy (CMHP) and Pharmacy in Practice have announced a partnership with the core aim of promoting the role of pharmacists in the care of patients suffering from mental health issues. The CMHP is a charity dedicated to advancing education in the practice of mental health pharmacy. They promote and disseminate research for the public benefit, in all aspects of the subject. The CMHP is a membership organisation. Although most of their members are pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, anyone with interest in mental health and medicines can become a member. The CMHP aims to ensure that people with mental health conditions receive the best medication for their individual needs. They want to help them to live as fulfilling lives as possible. Pharmaceutical care for people with mental health problems is improved by providing pharmacy team members with high-quality education and support about mental health conditions and their management. The partnership with Pharmacy in Practice will support these aims by delivering regular content for pharmacists across the UK on the pertinent issues of the day in mental health pharmacy.

Reliever inhaler overuse and how to find those high risk asthmatic patients in community pharmacy

Brexit shambles, drug shortages and the role pharmacists can play

The team at Knights Pharmacy won an award recently for their work raising awareness of pancreatic cancer. Today we chatted about how community pharmacy is central to this important work.

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