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 - a milestone as for the first time, this integrates NICE, BTS and SIGN guideline as a collaboration b...
Feb 07, 2025•32 min•Season 1Ep. 11
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 failure with reduced ejection fraction. They discuss the so-called ‘Four Pillars’ of heart failure, rem...
Jan 24, 2025•21 min•Season 1Ep. 10
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 Trainers and their registrars. He then worked for North Yorkshire Health Authority developing primary car...
Jan 10, 2025•39 min•Season 1Ep. 9
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 person’s medicines in order to take into account what really matters to them at a particular point of the...
Dec 27, 2024•18 min•Season 1Ep. 8
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 and general practice and now works for CPPE at the University of Manchester as a Lead learning develop...
Dec 13, 2024•30 min•Season 1Ep. 7
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 management of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. They discuss how we need to have a diffe...
Nov 29, 2024•22 min•Season 1Ep. 6
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 Practitioners. The toolkit was commissioned by NHS England in answer to recommendation 7 of the Nationa...
Nov 15, 2024•26 min•Season 1Ep. 5
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 and has significant dementia that is affecting her ability to cope with everyday life and living. Sh...
Nov 01, 2024•14 min•Season 1Ep. 4
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 psychiatrist and Visiting Lecturer in London, and the lead author of the Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines (s...
Oct 18, 2024•37 min•Season 1Ep. 3
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 patient stories that may help us think about how to ensure we consider what really matters to patients ...
Oct 04, 2024•15 min•Season 1Ep. 2
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 pharmacists working in General Practice and one of the first ever pharmacist independent prescribers. ...
Sep 20, 2024•30 min•Season 1Ep. 1
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 for many, many years at the National Prescribing Centre (NPC) developing innovative ways of teaching therapeu...
Aug 29, 2024•2 min•Season 1Ep. 1