PrescQIPP

PrescQIPP Podcast: Talking Meds

Engaging conversations about medicines related dilemmas

Our fortnightly podcast is hosted by Jonathan Underhill who chats with a fantastic guest each episode about current medical issues and clinical dilemmas. 

In the latest episode:

  • Jonathan and Neal Maskrey discuss his new book 'Rebalancing medicines' which could easily have had the strapline 'Everything a prescriber or prescribing adviser needs to know about medicines but was afraid to ask!'

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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 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.

Another episode in the series ‘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. She has been taking aspirin, originally intended to reduce her risk of a further heart attack, but which hasn’t been thought about for a while. They discuss how clinicians are prone to overestimate benefits of medicines, but underestimate harms. The importance of finding out a patient’s (and their carer’s) expectations are key to sensible prescribing. Sometimes the tablets aren’t worth our precious older people taking them, as the harms may well outweigh the potentially small benefits.

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