34. Looking back on 2025 in the world of medicines and prescribing

Welcome to this episode of Talking Meds and the PrescQIPP podcast, engaging conversations about medicines-related dilemmas. In this last episode for 2025, we welcome back three former guests to look back on the year in terms of medicines and prescribing.

Prof Adam Todd joined us in July 2025 for episode 23 where we discussed his work on how community pharmacy can buck the inverse care law.

Dr Deb Gompertz joined us back in June 2025 for episode 21 to talk about her 'Show me your medicines' campaign.

Hadeel Mohammed joined us in March 2025 for episode 14 where we discussed the importance of mentoring to encourage personal progress and, specifically, the ENIGMA scheme that she helped set up.

We have a had a very successful year at PrescQIPP and particularly with the Talking Meds podcast. This will be our 34th episode and bearing in mind most podcasts only last around 3 months before they stop, we're pleased to have had over 13,000 downloads since we started. Thanks to all of you for listening and for your suggestions and feedback. Please keep that coming!

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Pragmatic prescribing to reduce harm for older people with moderate to severe frailty
• Core20PLUS5 Framework: Reducing healthcare inequalities among older people
• The Positive Pharmacy Care Law Revisited
• ENIGMA Mentoring Initiative - ENhancing leadershIp amonGst ethnically diverse feMale phArmacy professionals [ENIGMA]
• 'Show me your meds please?' campaign materials

Previous episodes with the guests interviewed today:

• Episode 14. The importance of mentoring to encourage personal progress with Hadeel Mohamed
• Episode 21. Show me your medicines with Dr Deb Gompertz
• Episode 23. How community pharmacy can buck the inverse care law with Prof Adam Todd

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