Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Meds and the PrescQIPP podcast, engaging conversations about medicines-related dilemmas. Today, your host Jonathan Underhill, Medicines Clinical Adviser at PrescQIPP, talks to Dr Janine Barnes and Stephanie Bancroft about the challenges with medicines use in people with Parkinson's Disease
Stephanie is a community pharmacist, Chair of the Parkinson’s Disease Specialist Pharmacy Network (PDSPN) and Co-Chair of the Pharmacists Consortium London North West (PCLNW). As Co-Chair the PCLNW, Stephanie provides educational events and organises projects for local community pharmacists with the aim to improve patient outcomes and support CPD. She also helped develop the accredited pharmacist training programme for the Parkinson’s Excellence Network.
Stephanie has also starred in the excellent Movers and Shakers podcast with Rory Cellan-Jones and Jeremy Paxmen et al - you can listen to her episode here.
Janine is Specialist Pharmacist at the Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust. She completed her PhD in Neuropharmacology, then became a researcher and clinical lecturer, before becoming an independent prescriber in 2007. Janine was the first UK accredited Pharmacist with Special Interest in Neurology and was awarded the RPS Clinical Pharmacist of the year in 2012. She was a member of the NICE Parkinson’s guideline update committee (NG-71).
In 2018 Janine founded the PDSPN and is currently Deputy Chair. She received an MBE for Services to Pharmacy and people with Parkinson’s in 2019.
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