We meet our first guest, Clare Howard. Clare has worked in pharmacy since she was 16 and in the past was Deputy Chief Pharmaceutical Officer for NHS England. She is now the Medicines Optimisation Clinical Director for the Wessex Academic Health and Sciences Network.

We discuss Clare's choice of Desert Island Drug, a book that has influenced her career and a song for the Aural Apothecary playlist. While making fun of Jamie we discuss polypharmacy, PINCER, multimorbidity as well as middle aged apathy.

The paper we discuss is the Lancet paper ‘Epidemiology of multimorbidity and implications for healthcare, research and medical education’ https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(12)60240-2/fulltext.

Clare’s book choice was ‘Invisible Women’https://www.waterstones.com/book/invisible-women/caroline-criado-perez/9781784706289 and her song choice was ‘I can see clearly now’ by Jonny Nash. You can see the Aural Apothecary playlist at https://open.spotify.com/user/steve.williams55/playlist/3OsWj4w8sxsvuwR9zMXgn5?si=iMh-pTPtQtWrM65wtXd9yQ.

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