Talking Meds - A PrescQIPP podcast
Engaging conversations about medicines-related dilemmas.
Talking Meds is hosted by Jonathan Underhill who, every two weeks, will chat to a fantastic guest about current medical issues and clinical dilemmas.
Jonathan has a background as a hospital clinical pharmacist but worked for many years at the National Prescribing Centre (NPC) developing innovative ways of teaching therapeutics, evidence-based medicine and clinical decision making to prescribers and their support teams. Until recently, he worked at NICE as a consultant clinical adviser in their Medicines Optimisation Team. He is now Medicines Clinical Adviser at PrescQIPP.
Jonathan and his guests will discuss topics such as new guidance from NICE on menopause, asthma, depression deprescribing and insomnia; how to tackle penicillin allergy de-labelling.
There will also be a series on ’Sensible prescribing in Older people with Jonathan and Lucy’, with consultant geriatrician and author Lucy Pollock.
PrescQIPP is a Community Interest Company. We operate on a not-for-profit basis for the benefit of NHS patients and organisations and help NHS organisations to improve medicines-related care to patients. Find out more here: https://www.prescqipp.info/
Talking Meds - A PrescQIPP podcast
28. Medicines for Parkinson's Disease with Stephanie Bancroft and Janine Barnes
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 Dr Janine Barnes and Stephanie Bancroft about the challenges with medicines use in people with Parkinson's Disease
Stephanie is a community pharmacist, Chair of the Parkinson’s Disease Specialist Pharmacy Network (PDSPN) and Co-Chair of the Pharmacists Consortium London North West (PCLNW). As Co-Chair the PCLNW, Stephanie provides educational events and organises projects for local community pharmacists with the aim to improve patient outcomes and support CPD. She also helped develop the accredited pharmacist training programme for the Parkinson’s Excellence Network.
Stephanie has also starred in the excellent Movers and Shakers podcast with Rory Cellan-Jones and Jeremy Paxmen et al - you can listen to her episode here.
Janine is Specialist Pharmacist at the Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust. She completed her PhD in Neuropharmacology, then became a researcher and clinical lecturer, before becoming an independent prescriber in 2007. Janine was the first UK accredited Pharmacist with Special Interest in Neurology and was awarded the RPS Clinical Pharmacist of the year in 2012. She was a member of the NICE Parkinson’s guideline update committee (NG-71).
In 2018 Janine founded the PDSPN and is currently Deputy Chair. She received an MBE for Services to Pharmacy and people with Parkinson’s in 2019.
Upcoming PrescQIPP Webinar series on Parkinson's Disease:
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Parkinson’s Disease Specialist Pharmacy Network (PDSPN)
- Accredited pharmacist training programme for the Parkinson’s Excellence Network.
- Movers and Shakers podcast episode with Stephanie talking with with Rory Cellan-Jones and Jeremy Paxmen et al.
- NICE Parkinson’s guideline NG-71.
A new episode of Talking Meds will be available every other Friday.
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