The Aural Apothecary

By The Three Apothecaries

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Episodes: 88

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The Aural Apothecary Podcast. An authentic yet lighthearted take on the world of medicines and healthcare in the UK from Jamie, Gimmo and Steve the Chemist.

Episode Date
8.8 Biography Before Biology: Professor Sir Gregor Smith and Critical Connections
May 07, 2026
8.7 Dr Lena Frischlich - Seeing isn’t Believing - Medicines in the Age of Misinformation
Mar 27, 2026
8.6 Anecdotes & Antidotes - 5 Years of Medicines and Memories
Feb 27, 2026
8.5 There’s an App for That: Medicines in the Digital NHS with Rahul Singal
Jan 30, 2026
Live from Oxford with Professor Ben Goldacre - Bad Pharma, Good Data, Better Care
Jan 16, 2026
The Aural Apothecary Almanac 2025
Dec 26, 2025
8.4 Professor Alistair Boxall - From Prescription to Pollution: The Unseen Impact of Medicines in Our Waterways
Nov 28, 2025
8.3 Brian MacKenna - In God we Trust : All Others Must Bring Data
Oct 31, 2025
8.2 Dr Laurence Gray - The Dose Maketh the Poison
Sep 26, 2025
8.1 Dr Jessica Morley. Will Artificial Intelligence save the NHS?
Aug 29, 2025
7.8 Dr Margaret McCartney - Conflicts of Interest and the Skinny Jabs
Apr 04, 2025
7.7 Diving into the Deep End - The Aural Apothecary Analyses: The Inverse Care Law.
Feb 28, 2025
7.6 Professor Lauren Walker - The trials and tribulations of a Clinical Pharmacologist
Jan 31, 2025
7.5 - Deprescribing from Down Under - Dr Emily Reeve
Jan 10, 2025
The Aural Apothecary Almanac 2024. Weight loss drugs, Assisted dying and the Weight of the British National Formulary
Dec 20, 2024
7.4 The Aural Apothecary Analyses! When Guidelines Go Wrong - A Medicines Safety Special with Dr Matthew Jones and Angela Carrington 
Dec 06, 2024
7.3 John Seddon - Saving the NHS through system change
Nov 15, 2024
7.2 - Back to the Future! Dr Berwyn Owen and The Evolution of Community Pharmacy.
Oct 25, 2024
7.1 The Aural Apothecary Analyses! Statins and Shared Decision Making, with Brian Finney and Dr Sam Finnikin
Oct 04, 2024
6.10 Tommy Whitelaw - Intelligent Kindness & Gentle Honesty - listening is the best medicine
Jun 28, 2024
6.9 Ann-Marie Goacher. The Eyes: A Window to Our Health
Jun 07, 2024
6.8 Maricarmen Climént - Risky Business - How to communicate uncertainty
May 24, 2024
6.7 Dr Esther Clift DClinP - Joining the Dots; Frailty & Physiotherapy
May 03, 2024
6.6 Dr Catherine Labinjoh - Realistic Medicine & The Drug Portal to The World…
Apr 12, 2024
6.5 Alison Tennant - Won’t someone think of the children?
Mar 22, 2024
6.4 Professor Tony Avery OBE - The Problem with Prescribing?
Mar 08, 2024
6.3  - Sally Kneath, Let's talk about Sex - Living with HIV
Feb 23, 2024
6.2 Professor Bapu Jena - Freakonomics MD - Improving healthcare through natural experimentation
Feb 09, 2024
6.1 Rory Cellan-Jones - Life as a Mover and Shaker - living with Parkinson's disease
Jan 26, 2024
The Aural Apothecary Almanac 2023 - Artificial Intelligence, the Year of Community Pharmacy and the impact of loss
Dec 08, 2023
5.10 Professor Neal Maskrey - Rebalancing Medicine
Jul 21, 2023
5.9 - Louise Trewern - Joining the dots around chronic pain
Jun 29, 2023
5.8 - Paul Woodgate - The Patient Voice and the lived reality of Polypharmacy
Jun 08, 2023
5.7 Louise Jenkins and Cystic Fibrosis - Not part of my life, but my whole life
May 19, 2023
5.6 - Dr Liz O' Riordan - The Breast Surgeon who got Breast Cancer
May 05, 2023
5.5 - Trevor Silvester. Turn on, Tune in, (Don’t) Drop Out - Psychedelics & Cognitive Hypnotherapy
Apr 21, 2023
5.4 - Rachel Power - Communication, Communication, Communication.
Apr 06, 2023
Aural Apothecary Archives: Tracy Brown – What is Analgesic Stewardship
Mar 10, 2023
5.3 - Professor Alf Collins: No decision about me, without me
Feb 24, 2023
Aural Apothecary Archives : Jonathan Underhill, Shared Decision Making , NICE and POOs not DOOs
Feb 17, 2023
5.2 - Deborah Duval. Let me live! Life as a transplant recipient
Feb 03, 2023
5.1 - Graham Prestwich - The Patient as a Project Manager
Jan 20, 2023
The Aural Apothecary Almanac 2022 – Polypharmacy, the Menopause and Growing old with Medicines
Dec 23, 2022
Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week 2022 - Phil Howard
Nov 18, 2022
4.10 – Professor Claire Thompson and Badly Behaved Molecules
Sep 30, 2022
4.9 - Dr Ben Allen - Failure Demand in General Practice
Sep 20, 2022
4.8 - Dave Murdoch and the life of a Paramedic - From Everest to Dorset
Aug 26, 2022
4.7 - Professor Debi Bhattacharya. System Level Change in The Danger Zone.
Aug 12, 2022
4.6 Dr Wasim Baqir – Shine On - Changing lives through improved medicines use in Care Homes.
Jul 29, 2022
Bonus Episode - a Summer Scorcher! Kulpna Daya & Professor Stephen Bazire – Live at the Clinical Pharmacy Congress!
Jul 15, 2022
4.5 Professor Mahendra Patel OBE - Health Inequalities and the Bradford Polo Mint
Jul 01, 2022
4.4 - Dr Nkiruka Umaru. Tea, cake and medicines.
Jun 17, 2022
4.3 – Professor Delyth James – Applying behavioural change - to yourself
Jun 01, 2022
4.2 – Rebecca Hunter – Medicines behind Bars
May 20, 2022
4.1 - Getting Older and how to deal with it - with bestselling author Dr Lucy Pollock
May 06, 2022
Live at the Cardiff Science Festival! Jamie Brewster and the patient as a battlefield.
Apr 14, 2022
3.10 - Dr Pete Turton - Social Media, Poison and the Eurovision Song Contest.
Feb 25, 2022
3.9 – Tracy Brown – What is Analgesic Stewardship?
Feb 11, 2022
3.8 - Stephen Webber - Clinical Negligence and the perils of a no-fault compensation system.
Jan 28, 2022
3.7 - Lisa Green - Getting the Job Done - Mental Health, Veterinary Pharmacy and making people laugh at work
Jan 14, 2022
It's a Wonderful Life - The Aural Apothecary Christmas Special 2021
Dec 17, 2021
3.6 - Tracy Lyons - Planetary Health, The Carbon footprint of Medicines - and exploding batteries.
Dec 03, 2021
3.5 - Dr Diane Ashiru-Oredope - Antimicrobial Resistance - what do you do when you don’t know what to do...
Nov 19, 2021
3.4 Professor James McCormack - Bohemian Polypharmacy
Nov 05, 2021
3.3 - Professor Sally Lewis - Value Based Rock, PROMS and Goldilocks Healthcare
Oct 22, 2021
3.2 - Chris Martin - Innovation, Spread, Scale - and Hymns
Oct 08, 2021
3.1 - Dr Louise Newson - The Menopause Doctor. Prescription charges - fair or a tax on the sick?
Sep 24, 2021
2.10 - Dr Mark Holland - The Needy not the Noisy
Jul 16, 2021
2.9 - Professor Dave Slawson - Information Mastery - We are not in Kansas anymore…
Jul 09, 2021
2.8 - Lelly Oboh - Wicked Problems, Mindlines and the Stripey Zebra.
Jul 02, 2021
2.7 - Fiona Peniston-Bird - Non-Medical Prescribing & Competency frameworks - what's the point?
Jun 25, 2021
2.6 - Dr Mark Porter MBE - It shouldn't happen to a vet.
Jun 18, 2021
2.5 - Professor Rachel Elliott - The Empty Chair and Technology Solutionism
Jun 11, 2021
2.4 - Jill Cruikshank - Advice, Referral, Treatment - The ART of Pharmacy in Scotland
Jun 04, 2021
2.3 - Dr Tessa Lewis - NO-TEARS, Thinking Fast & Slow and Chronic Kidney Injury
May 28, 2021
2.2 - Dr Karen Sankey - Fixing the medical model - a squash and squeeze
May 21, 2021
2.1 - Jonathan Underhill, Shared Decision Making, NICE and POOs - not DOOs.
May 14, 2021
10 - Samantha Quaye, the role of pharmacy technicians and our end of series quiz
Apr 16, 2021
9 - Angela Carrington - The World Health Organisation's Medicines Safety Challenge
Apr 09, 2021
8 - Ravi Sharma - Pharmacogenomics, Penicillin de-labelling and promoting the pharmacy profession in a pandemic.
Apr 02, 2021
7 - Johnathan Laird- What is a Pharmacist and Amazon’s place in healthcare?
Mar 26, 2021
6 - Prof Mark Taubert, end of life care and a letter to David Bowie
Mar 19, 2021
5 - Lindsay Harper, the treatment of obesity and resilience in healthcare.
Mar 12, 2021
SIX NATIONS SPECIAL 2021. John Devereux - British Lion, Welsh International and Integrated Healthcare Manager.
Mar 10, 2021
4. Dr Lawrence Brad, working with pharmacists multidisciplinary education and the science of Nudge.
Mar 05, 2021
3. Dr Amira Guirguis, supporting the second victim and how to run a drug cartel.
Feb 26, 2021
2 - Clare Howard and Multimorbidity
Feb 19, 2021
1 - Meet the Apothecaries.
Feb 06, 2021