Adam Walker’s Pharma Prescribed Podcast

I’m Adam Walker a Biometrics consultant, and this is the Pharma Prescribed Podcast—where leaders, innovators, and hidden voices in healthcare open up. No soundbites. No spin. Just raw insight—one prescription at a time.”In an industry driven by data, protocols, and pressure, we rarely pause to ask the human questions: What drives us? What breaks us? And what truths live behind the titles we wear?

Adam Walker’s Pharma Prescribed Podcast is a science podcast hosted by Adam Walker, with 53 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Adam Walker hosts Adam Walker’s Pharma Prescribed Podcast, a science show with 53 episodes published.

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  Episode #53

  The Patients Clinical Trials Leave Out - and the Evidence That Counts Them In

  Aug 15, 202632 min

  Ashish Rishi on The Patients Clinical Trials Leave Out — and the Evidence That Counts Them In | Pharma Prescribed Ashish Rishi is Founder and CEO of Unwritten Health, the Manchester-based patient experience data platform working to make life science's evidence reflect the people it's meant to serve. His mission is unsentimental — and it starts with his father. At 17, Ash watched his dad spend three years fighting for a GP referral for worsening back and bone pain. The eventual diagnosis was terminal prostate cancer, delivered to an 18-year-old and his mother — for whom English is a fourth language — in a two-minute conversation and a flyer, with no family network to turn to. His father lived six more years and passed away three months before Ash's graduation. That experience became a company. In this episode Ash explains "inclusion debt" — his term for how bias compounds at every stage of drug development: unmet need defined without the real patient voice, multi-billion-pound programmes built on focus groups of eight to ten patient experts, recruitment budgets thrown at social ads that reach the already-reachable, and value dossiers that carry only the majority narrative. By market access, it's too late to fix. The Patients Clinical Trials Leave Out — and the Evidence That Counts Them In His answer is Equity Engine: a 6,000-strong UK participant panel profiled across the social determinants of health, built through gurdwaras, mosques, temples, churches and community groups, generating longitudinal lived-experience data at a scale focus groups never could — and turning it into submission-ready evidence. Honest about being a "failed scientist," about burnout and anger, and about the trust he has to earn in every room. A powerful conversation about fixing inequity as an evidence and design problem, not just a moral one. LISTEN TO THE AUDIO Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7Ks5oLfSDf0u9F1I8GUjti Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adam-walkers-pharma-prescribed-podcast/id1829715970 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/1a43eb87-b83e-441d-9a87-321263e3f821/adam-walker%E2%80%99s-pharma-prescribed-podcast Podbean: https://pharmaprescribed.podbean.com Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/@pharmaprescribedpodcast Full transcript and episode notes: https://pharmaprescribed.com/episodes ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:35 Meet Ashish Rishi 1:00 A father's diagnosis 3:00 From neuroscience to comms 4:00 The clinical trial wake-up call 7:00 The Demand Diversity movement 9:00 Building Equity Engine 12:00 Inclusion debt explained 15:00 UK data fragmentation 17:00 Barriers and misinformation 19:00 AI-powered patient insights 26:00 Neurodivergent-friendly trials 28:00 Quickfire round 30:00 Golden rule and wrap up ABOUT ASHISH RISHI Founder and CEO of Unwritten Health and creator of the Equity Engine platform. Neuroscience MSc and former health communications specialist. Sits on the scientific advisory board of IHI READ-Y (an EU Innovative Health Initiative / Horizon Europe programme advancing inclusive clinical research) and the equity committee of the US Prader-Willi Syndrome Association. Advocate for re-engineering health inequity as an evidence and design problem. Search "Ashish Rishi" on LinkedIn https://www.unwrittenhealth.com ️ ABOUT PHARMA PRESCRIBED Pharma Prescribed is the podcast where leaders, innovators and hidden voices in healthcare open up. No soundbites, no spin. Just raw insight, one prescription at a time. Hosted by biometrics consultant Adam Walker. https://pharmaprescribed.com ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@pharmaprescribedpodcast https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamwalkerbiometrics https://uk.linkedin.com/company/pharma-prescribed-podcast #AshishRishi #UnwrittenHealth #InclusionDebt #HealthEquity #ClinicalTrials #ClinicalTrialDiversity #PharmaPrescribed #PatientExperience #SocialDeterminantsOfHealth #RWE #HealthInequality

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  Episode #52

  Louise Callin on dementia, photos sparking conversation & making care more human | Pharma Prescribed

  Aug 10, 202643 min

  Louise Callin — founder and CEO of ReelLife Conversations — joins Adam Walker for a warm and moving conversation about dementia, human connection and building technology that makes care more human, not less. After nearly 30 years leading technology and transformation for global corporations including American Express, Louise left to build something with more direct impact. Her mother's dementia journey inspired the idea: photos aren't a memory test, they're a conversation waiting to happen. ReelLife Conversations uses AI to turn family photographs into dementia-friendly conversation prompts — analysing each picture for colours, objects and places, then linking one photo naturally to the next. She's since secured venture capital investment and is building partnerships across the UK and internationally. Adam and Louise met at a conference — and her energy is unmistakable. LISTEN ON YOUR PREFERRED APP Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/search/Louise+Callin+pharma+prescribed/episodes ⚠️ SWAP Apple Podcasts → https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/search?term=Louise+Callin+pharma+prescribed ⚠️ SWAP Amazon Music → https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/1a43eb87-b83e-441d-9a87-321263e3f821/adam-walker%E2%80%99s-pharma-prescribed-podcast Podbean → https://pharmaprescribed.podbean.com/ Youtube → https://youtu.be/wq1GShCpCYE WHAT WE COVER - The superpower Louise didn't know she had — linking one photo to the next in real time - Why photos should never be a memory test: "Do you remember when?" versus "I remember when" - The green top story — how colour, not context, unlocks connection - Turning physical albums into digital assets that work for dementia - Accessible design with no standard to follow: fear-free buttons, no menus, opens straight to use - How the app works: facial recognition, family admin naming, AI conversation prompts - Why each photo links to the next to support natural conversation flow - The carer as the third leg of the stool — and why social care struggles with retention - Louise's mum's journey — and how love led her to quietly cover up early symptoms - Why dementia statistically affects women more — as patients and as primary carers - Dr.Tommy Wood on sleep, supply and stimulation — the non-pharmacological approach - Securing VC investment for a values-driven, volume-based, low-subscription model - Sailing, mind maps and "common sense is not very common" ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction & podcast mission 1:00 Meet Louise Callin — founder of ReelLife Conversations 1:30 Mission: technology that makes care more human 2:00 Her mother's dementia journey and the inspiration 2:30 Photos spark conversation — the coffee table superpower 4:00 Why the carer couldn't use the photos alone 5:00 Colours, objects and places — not just faces 6:00 Photos are a conversation waiting to happen 8:00 No memory tests: "Do you remember" versus "I remember" 9:00 The green top and turning language around 11:00 From analogue albums to digital assets 12:00 Accessible design for dementia — no written standard 13:00 Fear-free buttons and opening straight into use 14:00 Designed for two people, side by side 15:00 The family admin portal and uploading photos 16:00 Facial recognition, naming and location data 17:00 AI conversation prompts — the game changer 18:00 Linking each photo to the next 19:00 The carer as stimulus — the third leg of the stool 20:00 Every journey is unique — Uncle Geoff's story 22:00 Louise's mum: covering up early symptoms out of love 24:00 Social connection as critical — not surfacing memories 26:00 From corporate life to founder — securing funding 28:00 The volume model: small subscription, huge need 30:00 A values-driven business 31:00 Women and caregiving — menopause, sleep and stress 34:00 Women outliving men and the caregiving needle 35:00 Dementia at the forefront, like mental health before it 36:00 From pharmacological to non-pharmacological care 37:30 Quick-fire: I matter too 38:30 The water, sailing and a fish in a previous life 40:00 Golden rule: common sense is not very common 41:00 reellifeconversations.com and closing thanks ABOUT LOUISE CALLIN Founder and CEO of ReelLife Conversations, a social care technology company helping families, carers and providers create meaningful conversations for people living with dementia. Nearly 30 years in technology and transformation. https://www.reellifeconversations.com Search "Louise Callin" on LinkedIn ️ ABOUT PHARMA PRESCRIBED Long-form conversations with leaders in clinical research, digital health and mental wellbeing, hosted by Adam Walker. https://pharmaprescribed.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamwalkerbiometrics #LouiseCallin #ReelLifeConversations #Dementia #DementiaCare #PharmaPrescribed #AdamWalker #SocialCare #NonPharmacological #CaregiverSupport #WomenAndDementia #DigitalHealth #HumanConnection #Alzheimers #DementiaFriendly #Wellbeing

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  Episode #51

  Andreas Beust on how a small CRO covers the globe without growing | Pharma Prescribed

  Aug 1, 202652 min

  Andreas Beust is CEO and Managing Director of GCP Service International, a Bremen-based CRO working across medicinal products, medical devices and in vitro diagnostics. He's also President of ACROS — the Association of International CROs — and a guest lecturer at the University of Bremen. He started on the biostatistics desk. He's now running the company, elected by a leader who — not yet 50 — went looking for a successor because clinical research moves too fast to leave succession to chance. In this episode Andreas makes complex things accessible, which is his stated mission. He explains the ACROS model: ten similarly-sized, like-minded CROs from the US to Europe, the Middle East, India, China and Australia, who agree that once a partner joins, their country is off-limits to the others. It lets a small CRO run trials globally — 20 concurrent studies across Spain, Italy and Portugal through one trusted partner — without ballooning into the kind of large, rigid, expensive organisation that can't serve smaller sponsors. Grow together, not bigger. He's refreshingly frank on AI: a lot of overpromise and underdeliver, quarter-of-a-million-per-seat licence fees that no small or mid-size company can pay, and real but modest gains in medical writing, programming and knowledge capture — always human in the loop. And he's honest about the thing that actually drives growth: discomfort. Curiosity, listening first, and putting yourself in the shop window of the unknown. An optimistic, grounded conversation about how the human end of this industry actually works — and how to break into it. LISTEN TO THE AUDIO Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7Ks5oLfSDf0u9F1I8GUjti Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adam-walkers-pharma-prescribed-podcast/id1829715970 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/1a43eb87-b83e-441d-9a87-321263e3f821/adam-walker%E2%80%99s-pharma-prescribed-podcast Podbean: https://pharmaprescribed.podbean.com Full transcript and episode notes: https://pharmaprescribed.com/episodes ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:35 Meet Andreas Beust 3:00 From the biostats desk to CEO 7:00 Podcasting, curiosity and listening first 11:00 Breaking into clinical research 16:00 Advice for young talent 21:00 Hiring for attitude 23:00 Leading without ego 26:00 A flexibility mindset 27:00 Building the ACROS alliance 30:00 The presidency and the mission 35:00 A communal growth model 37:00 AI in clinical trials — a reality check 42:00 Compliance, costs and human in the loop 44:00 Hope amid uncertainty 46:00 Quickfire round 50:00 Final takeaways ABOUT ANDREAS BEUST CEO and Managing Director of GCP Service International (Bremen). President of ACROS, the Association of International CROs. Guest lecturer at the University of Bremen. Biologist by training who joined GCP Service in the biostatistics department and rose to lead the company through its international expansion. Advocate for accessible clinical research and for training new talent from the ground up. Search "Andreas Beust" on LinkedIn https://www.gcp-service.com ️ ABOUT PHARMA PRESCRIBED Pharma Prescribed is the podcast where leaders, innovators and hidden voices in healthcare open up. No soundbites, no spin. Just raw insight, one prescription at a time. Hosted by biometrics consultant Adam Walker. https://pharmaprescribed.com ▶️ https://youtu.be/GxVq88C6ChA https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamwalkerbiometrics https://uk.linkedin.com/company/pharma-prescribed-podcast #AndreasBeust #GCPService #ACROS #CRO #ClinicalResearch #ClinicalTrials #PharmaPrescribed #AIinPharma #ClinicalTrialCareers #GCP #ContractResearch

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  Episode #50

  Graham Allcott on Kind, Psychological Safety & the Quiet Power of Kindness | Pharma Prescribed

  Jul 26, 202651 min

  Graham Allcott — bestselling author of How to Be a Productivity Ninja and Kind: The Quiet Power of Kindness at Work — joins Adam Walker for a conversation about why the ruthless-boss archetype is scientifically wrong. Graham founded Think Productive, now operating across the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and the Netherlands. His latest book won the 2025 Leadership Book of the Year from the Institute of Leadership and a Business Book Award. His argument is simple and evidence-backed: kindness builds trust, trust builds psychological safety, and psychologically safe teams outperform everyone else. Adam and Graham first met at the Sussex University Kindness Conference. This is the conversation that followed. LISTEN ON YOUR PREFERRED APP Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/search/Graham+Allcott+pharma+prescribed/episodes ⚠️ SWAP Apple Podcasts → https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/search?term=Graham+Allcott+pharma+prescribed ⚠️ SWAP Amazon Music → https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/1a43eb87-b83e-441d-9a87-321263e3f821/adam-walker%E2%80%99s-pharma-prescribed-podcast Podbean → https://pharmaprescribed.podbean.com/ Youtube → https://youtu.be/1i1_TIZRBmI WHAT WE COVER - Why we got the success archetype wrong — Mr Burns, Dragon's Den and the myth of the ruthless leader - "Trust and kindness are our rocket fuel" — the company value that became a book - How trust eliminates due diligence — and the Apple purchase analogy - Why organisations without shareholders find kindness easier: Timpson, Richer Sounds, Reed - James Timpson: "The easiest way to make the numbers go up is to flog everybody" - Why charities are often the least kind places to work - The biggest source of accidental unkindness is busyness - The kindness window: why the opportunity closes the moment you notice it - Slowness isn't about speed, it's about savouring - Erling Kagge, the South Pole and the apple that connected him to the tree - How Seth Godin blurbed the book — and the watermark that nearly stopped it - Kindness starts with you: abundance versus scarcity - DJing jazz, funk and soul at Brighton Sundae ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction & podcast mission 1:00 Meet Graham Allcott 1:30 The mission: thinking differently about work 2:00 Why the success archetype is scientifically wrong 3:00 Meeting at the Sussex Kindness Conference 4:00 The bridge between productivity and kindness 4:30 "Trust and kindness are our rocket fuel" 5:00 Culture without a water cooler 6:00 Psychological safety and what the research shows 8:00 Trust eliminates due diligence — the Apple analogy 9:00 What happens when trust is lost 10:00 Scandinavian workplaces, hygge and Copenhagen 12:00 The shareholder problem — family businesses do it better 13:00 James Timpson on flogging everybody 15:00 Common threads across kinder organisations 17:00 Kindness to customers, not just employees 18:30 The charity sector reality check 21:00 Attention, meetings and How to Fix Meetings 22:00 Nancy Kline's Time to Think 23:00 Podcasting and the attention economy 25:00 Busyness and kindness — do they mix? 27:00 The kindness window and the London Tube seat 28:00 Item four — the praise you never gave 29:00 Busyness as a badge of honour 30:00 Adam's back surgery and rebuilding slowly 32:00 Carl Honoré and the slow movement 33:00 Slowness is savouring, not speed 34:00 Erling Kagge, the South Pole and the apple 36:00 Seth Godin and Beyond Busy 38:00 The advice that named the book 39:00 The watermark that nearly stopped the blurb 40:00 "Blurbs help the author walk taller" 42:00 Kindness starts with you 44:00 Abundance versus scarcity 45:00 "There is enough. I am enough." 46:00 Rev Up for the Week 47:00 Quick-fire: book the ticket 47:45 DJing at Brighton Sundae 48:30 Golden rule: stay curious ABOUT GRAHAM ALLCOTT Author, speaker and entrepreneur. Founder of Think Productive. Author of How to Be a Productivity Ninja and Kind: The Quiet Power of Kindness at Work — 2025 Leadership Book of the Year. Resident DJ at Brighton Sundae. https://www.grahamallcott.com Rev Up for the Week — free Sunday newsletter brightonsundae.com ️ ABOUT PHARMA PRESCRIBED Long-form conversations with leaders in clinical research, digital health and mental wellbeing, hosted by Adam Walker. https://pharmaprescribed.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamwalkerbiometrics #GrahamAllcott #Kind #KindnessAtWork #ThinkProductive #ProductivityNinja #PharmaPrescribed #AdamWalker #PsychologicalSafety #Leadership #WorkplaceCulture #SethGodin #Busyness #SlowMovement #Trust #Wellbeing

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  Episode #49

  Adam Walker interviews namesake Adam Walker; GMP, Sepsis & 900k NHS Doses a Year | Pharma Prescribed

  Jul 18, 202639 min

  Two Adam Walkers, one conversation. This week the host is joined by his namesake — Adam Walker, Qualified Person, Head of Development and Innovation at the North East and North Cumbria Medicines Manufacturing Centre, and co-founder of the Help Me GMP educational platform. Adam qualified as an NHS pharmacist in 2003 and quickly realised the clean room, not the ward, was where he could do the most good. In this episode he explains the quiet revolution underway in NHS pharmaceutical manufacturing: a new hub-and-spoke model, one of four national aseptic pathfinder hubs, and a brand-new facility in Northumberland going live in 2027 — built to produce around 150,000 chemotherapy doses and up to 750,000 ready-to-administer antibiotic doses a year. The patient impact is immediate. A ready-made antibiotic bag pulled from a fridge means the one-hour door-to-needle target for suspected sepsis is met, and nurses get 12–15 minutes per dose back for patient care. Then the conversation turns personal. Adam shares his "why" — his mother's Grade 4 metastatic bowel cancer diagnosis in 2003, her remarkable response to the FOLFOX regimen, and the nine extra years it bought: his wedding, meeting his first son. It's why he gets up in the morning. He also opens up on mentorship, Annex 1, and building Help Me GMP for the "TikTok generation" of pharma professionals. Two disciplines — GMP and GCP — one shared mission: getting the right medicine to the patient at the right time. 🎧 LISTEN TO THE AUDIO Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7Ks5oLfSDf0u9F1I8GUjti Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adam-walkers-pharma-prescribed-podcast/id1829715970 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/1a43eb87-b83e-441d-9a87-321263e3f821/adam-walker%E2%80%99s-pharma-prescribed-podcast Podbean: https://pharmaprescribed.podbean.com Full transcript and episode notes: https://pharmaprescribed.com/episodes Youtube: https://youtu.be/2MoNyxxkDiE ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:35 Meet Adam Walker (QP) 1:00 Finding pharma manufacturing 9:00 Development & innovation: the NENC hub 15:00 Patient impact and the sepsis window 18:00 A personal why: his mother's cancer and FOLFOX 21:00 Mentors and career shapers 27:00 The Help Me GMP mission 31:00 Creating content with AI — the GMP way 33:00 Quick fire round 36:00 Golden rule and wrap up 👤 ABOUT ADAM WALKER (GUEST) Qualified Person and pharmaceutical quality leader. Head of Development and Innovation at the North East and North Cumbria Medicines Manufacturing Centre, leading the build of next-generation NHS manufacturing facilities. Co-founder of Help Me GMP, delivering free, practical GMP training worldwide. NHS pharmacist since 2003, specialising in GMP manufacturing, aseptic processing and medicine supply. 💼 Search "Adam Walker Help Me GMP" on LinkedIn 🌐 https://www.whatisgmp.com ▶️ Help Me GMP on YouTube 🎙️ ABOUT PHARMA PRESCRIBED Pharma Prescribed is the podcast where leaders, innovators and hidden voices in healthcare open up. No soundbites, no spin. Just raw insight, one prescription at a time. Hosted by biometrics consultant Adam Walker. 🌐 https://pharmaprescribed.com ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@pharmaprescribedpodcast 💼 https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-walker-2327951/ 🏢 https://uk.linkedin.com/company/pharma-prescribed-podcast #AdamWalker #HelpMeGMP #GMP #NHS #AsepticProcessing #MedicinesManufacturing #PharmaPrescribed #PatientSafety #Chemotherapy #Sepsis #QualifiedPerson #Pharma

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