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Pharmacy Podcasts

Listen to pharmacy podcasts for pharmacists from Pharmacy Magazine. Our editors discuss the good, bad and newsworthy in pharmacy every week here. More

Podcasts for pharmacy professionals

Pharmacy Magazine podcasts provide news, insight, and analysis for pharmacists and their teams across all sectors of community pharmacy. Our editors debate the good, bad and the newsworthy every week. 

We also have leading figures from across the industry talking about the big issues of the day in pharmacy and sharing their in-depth knowledge and personal views. Our pharmacy podcasts provide insights into the pharmacy sector and what the profession’s leaders are talking about.

Listen to our library of pharmacy podcasts to brush up on your current affairs knowledge and keep up to date with the latest developments and thinking around community pharmacy.

In conversation pharmacy podcasts

Our ‘In conversation…’ pharmacy podcasts see Pharmacy Magazine editor Richard Thomas talking to pharmacy’s key opinion leaders and top executives about the big issues impacting the sector.

Previously, the podcasts have featured individuals such as Marc Donovan from Boots UK and the PAGB’s Michelle Riddalls. Find out what the people who shape pharmacy really think in these hard-hitting interviews.

Talking pharmacy podcasts

The ‘Talking pharmacy’ podcasts focus on a wide range of topics from within the pharmacy sector and beyond. 

Editors from Pharmacy Magazine, P3Pharmacy and Independent Community Pharmacist get together each week to discuss, debate and deliberate over the top news stories in pharmacy, and look over what’s happening in the wider world of health and politics. 

All our pharmacy podcasts are lively, opinionated, and topical. They are a ‘must listen’ catch-up of the week’s events for community pharmacists and their teams across the UK. 

Category insight podcasts

Hosted by Training Matters editor Monica West, each month she takes an in-depth look behind the headlines at a particular area of health. 

Aimed at pharmacy teams, our ‘Category Insight’ podcast topics include women and period poverty, veganism and its impact on nutrition, and what pharmacies can do to improve the nation’s heart health.

Learning Pharmacy Podcasts

Our range of ‘Learning Pharmacy' educational podcasts accompany Pharmacy Magazine’s award-winning learning and CPD content. 

Recent editions feature Professor Nina Barnett talking about improving outcomes with patients prescribed a medicine for the first time, men’s health and sexual health problems, and the presentation of musculoskeletal pain in community pharmacy.


Browse all our pharmacy podcasts below, or alternatively, watch our pharmacy webcasts.

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Pharmacy Magazine Podcast – Meningitis outbreak special

All you need to know from the Pharmacy Magazine clinical team – who’s eligible for the MenB vaccine, what pharmacists should prioritise and what red flags to look out for, plus latest case numbers and what might happen next.

23 Mar 2026 , 8 Min Article

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Pharmacy Magazine Podcast – Talking Pharmacy 2026, Episode 3

Our new group clinical editor, Ross Ferguson, joins the team to discuss why the shortage of DPPs is severely disrupting this year's foundation training year, transparency at CPE (or lack thereof), the funding crisis in Wales – and a famous pharmacist celebrates 50 years in business.

06 Mar 2026 , 29 Min Article

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Pharmacy Magazine Podcast – Talking Pharmacy 2026, Episode 2

Why threatening legal action before funding negotiations is a bad idea, pharmacist independent prescribers eyeing up private services and happy retirement to Boots magnate Ornella Barra. Plus Henry Gregg, Shilpa Shah, Harry McQuillan and Janet Morrison on the year ahead in pharmacy. It's a packed episode!

02 Feb 2026 , 24 Min Article

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Pharmacy Magazine Podcast – Talking Pharmacy 2026, episode 1

It's the first pod of the year, so what better time for the Editors to peer review into their crystal ball and give their pharmacy predictions, good and bad, for 2026 – but do you agree? Send in a voice note to *pm@1530.com* and let us know!

20 Jan 2026 , 23 Min Article

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Pharmacy Magazine Podcast – Talking Pharmacy, October 27

In Halloween week, grab your broomsticks as the CIG editors stir the cauldron of pharmacy news to see what’s been bubbling over the past week – antidepressant side-effects, black market GLP-1s and the dearth of practice research in the community sector all cast a spell...

27 Oct 2025 , 19 Min Article

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2-Minute Pharmacy Magazine – October 17

Catch up on our most read pharmacy stories of the week – in just two minutes.

17 Oct 2025 , 2 Min Article

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Pharmacy Magazine Podcast – Talking Pharmacy, Oct 9

The CIG editors are back to discuss the dramatically falling rates of locum pay, why depression is such a welcome addition to the New Medicine Service – and we celebrate the very best of independent community pharmacy in this year's Independent Pharmacy Awards. See you at the Pharmacy Show!

09 Oct 2025 , 24 Min Article

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Pharmacy Magazine Podcast – Category Insight: Eye Care

In conversation with Louise Gow, head of optometry, low vision and eye health at the Royal National Institute of Blind People.

18 Sep 2025 , 20 Min Article

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Pharmacy Magazine In Conversation With podcast – James Roach, Hampshire & IOW ICB

Pharmacy Magazine editor Richard Thomas welcomes back James onto the pod to discuss community pharmacy's role in NHS neighbourhood care, local Pharmacy First successes and the latest with the prescribing pathfinders. Plus, as the dust settles following the publication of the Government's 10 Year Health Plan, do we have a clearer idea of what it might mean for pharmacy?

21 Aug 2025 , 26 Min Article

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2-Minute Pharmacy Magazine – August 8

Catch up on our most read pharmacy stories of the week so far – in just two minutes.

08 Aug 2025 , 2 Min Article

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Pharmacy Magazine Podcast – Talking Pharmacy, July 28

More good news for pharmacy vaccination services, the RPS U-turns over the P category, arguments continue over voting secrecy at CPE – plus the Self-Care Census 2025 reveals that confidence in pharmacy is falling and a surprise guest pops in...

28 Jul 2025 , 30 Min Article

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Pharmacy Magazine In Conversation With podcast – Olivier Picard, NPA (part 2)

In part 2 of this In Conversation With podcast, NPA chair Olivier Picard talks about the big opportunities presented by pharmacist prescribing – if the commissioning structures and funding are right. Also about how to make community pharmacy attractive and inspiring to young pharmacists.

19 Jul 2025 , 24 Min Article

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