In this week’s episode we are thrilled to be joined by Delyth James. Professor James is Professor of Health Psychology in Pharmacy Practice at Cardiff Metropolitan University. Delyth is a pharmacist with experience of training and education and working as a renal pharmacist in hospitals across the world. Delyth’s main area of research is ‘Health Psychology and Medicines use.

Paul is away this week so Steve and Jamie are joined by guest apothecary Clare Howard. We chat about Delyth’s experience of a heart condition and how she used her experience as a health psychologist to deal with it. We discuss behavioural change and the COM-B model and reflect on how it feels to make a dispensing error. We also found out how Steve has broken the podcast – frankly we are surprised it took him this long.

Our micro discussion focuses on the paper “Effectiveness of a medication adherence management intervention in a community pharmacy setting: a cluster randomised controlled trial” – a recent paper from the BMJ Quality and Safety that looks at how a focus on adherence may improve chronic disease management https://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/qhc/early/2021/03/28/bmjqs-2020-011671.full.pdf.

As with all our guests we ask Delyth to pick a career influencing drug, anthem and a book that has influenced her work. Her song choice is a karaoke classic!

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