Nicola Wake talks to Melissa Melly, a pharmacy technician in GP practice.  Melly shares how she resolved a difficulty in arranging blood tests related to medicines monitoring by undertaking venepuncture training and delivering urgent or overdue blood test appointments in a weekly clinic.

Phlebotomy: a Pharmacy Technician Coffee Break Conversation

In this extended podcast, Claire Dearden talks to Nicola Stockmann who is the President of the Association of Pharmacy Technicians UK. To celebrate Pharmacy Technician Day, Claire and Nicola look back at the previous 14 episodes of series two of the SPS coffee break conversations with pharmacy technicians. They reflect on each individual podcast and discuss the diverse and inspirational roles that pharmacy technicians hold. This podcast also touches on the Association of Pharmacy Technicians UK and Nicola’s role as President. (27m 27s)

Nicola Stockmann - President of the Association of Pharmacy Technicians UK 
Claire Dearden - Chief Pharmaceutical Officer’s and Specialist Pharmacy Service National Pharmacy Technician Fellow 

SPS series two of coffee break conversations with pharmacy technicians 
https://www.sps.nhs.uk/articles/pharmacy-technician-coffee-break-conversation-podcasts/
Association of Pharmacy Technicians UK
https://www.aptuk.org/

Celebrating Pharmacy Technician Day: a Pharmacy Technician Coffee Break Conversation

NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service serves healthcare professionals across the NHS who are involved in all aspects of buying, making and using medicines.  Our motto is 'do once and share'.

Celebrating Pharmacy Technician Day: a Pharmacy Technician Coffee Break Conversation

NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service

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