The Aural Apothecary welcomes Dr Lawrence Brad. A partner and GP prescribing lead at a large GP Practice in Bournemouth. He is also a Fellow of the RCGP and acts as the RCGP representative for clinical pharmacists. He is a clinical teaching fellow at the University of Bath school of Pharmacy and Pharmacology and one of the Wessex LMC GP education programme leads.

He has published with both Jamie and STC about the benefits of clinical pharmacists in general practice including how this new cadre of health professionals in general practice can even help make working in primary care a more attractive choice for potential GP recruits by improving system resilience, personal resilience and wellbeing.
https://bjgplife.com/2020/06/17/clinical-pharmacists-within-primary-care-networks-another-driver-for-collaborative-general-practice/

We discuss the risks of post-covid fatigue and the use of wearable technology. We explore the role of clinical pharmacists and the synergistic relationship pharmacists can have with prescribers.

As with all our guests we discuss Lawrence’s choice of Desert Island Drug, a book that has influenced his career and a song for the Aural Apothecary playlist.

This week’s talking point is the paper “What role is there for ‘nudging clinicians?’ - a recent paper from the British Journal of General Practice” https://bjgp.org/content/71/703/82.

The paper Gimmo refers to is EAST; Four Simple Ways to apply Behavioural Insights https://www.bi.team/publications/east-four-simple-ways-to-apply-behavioural-insights/.

Lawrence’s book choice is “How to implement evidence based healthcare by Trisha Greenhalgh https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35533260-how-to-implement-evidence-based-healthcare and his song choice is “When love comes to town” by U2 and BB King https://open.spotify.com/track/2cpUudtTX7OU6DcoNTuxwB?si=d8f47a3a6b704575

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