On today's episode I am joined by Lydia Tutt, a postdoctoral research assistant at the University of Nottingham. She is a community pharmacist by background and recently completed her PhD research on the role of the community pharmacist in breast cancer survivorship services. She explores some of the struggles around the transition from working full time with a busy community pharmacy team to working very independently as a full time student and the financial impact this had on her life. She also talks about the future of the profession and her opinion on how we need to change our perception of who we are and how we need to advocate for pharmacy at any opportunity, an opinion we both have in common.

Lydia recently completed the Return to Practice course run by CPPE to help her adjust back to a pharmacy practice role. If you have been out of practice or off the register for more than a year and want to return to pharmacy practice to provide NHS services in England within the next six months, this course might be for you.

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