Episode 3.2 - Chris Martin - Good for us, Good for you, Good for Everybody

In this episode it is our great pleasure to be joined by Chris Martin. Chris is a community pharmacist by background with extensive experience in a wide variety of Public Sector Roles. These have included being Chairman of Hywel Dda University Health Board and the Welsh NHS Confederation. Currently he is Chair of the Life Sciences Wales and the Bevan Commission.

We chat to Chris about his fascinating career in pharmacy and how it has influenced him in these senior roles and the difficulties faced in prescribing when it comes to innovation, scale and spread.

Our micro-discussion this week focuses on the recent on over-prescribing report from the Department of Health - Good for us, Good for You, Good for Everybody. Game changer or more of the same? https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-overprescribing-review-report

As with all our guests we ask Chris to pick his ‘Desert Island Drug’, a career defining anthem and a book that has influenced his work.

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BIO - Dr Chris Martin Bpharm (Hons) FRPharmS Dlitt
A Pharmacist by profession, Chris gained an honours degree in Pharmacy in Cardiff before going on to own and build two successful independent community pharmacy businesses in the West Country and in Pembrokeshire.
He has extensive experience in the Public Sector having been Chairman of four separate health organisation in West Wales over the last 20 years and until his retirement he was the Chairman of Hywel Dda University Health Board, the Welsh NHS Confederation and the co-ordinating chairman of all health organisations in Wales.
He is currently the Chairman of Life Sciences Hub Wales, Chairman and Non-Executive Director of the ESNR Audit and Risk Committee, member of the main Welsh Government Audit and Risk Committee and Co-Vice Chairman of the Bevan Commission with an interest in Innovation and End of Life care.
He is Managing Director of his own property development company, runs a portfolio of investment properties, Chairman of the Port of Milford Haven and a Non-Executive Advisor on the Board of Alliance Healthcare Distribution UK Ltd.
He has several voluntary and charitable roles including Trustee and Board member of Marie Curie UK, Chairman of the Wales Advisory Board for Marie Curie Cymru, Governor of Spittal School and acts as a mentor on a voluntary basis.
Chris was awarded a fellowship by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain in 2006 for outstanding contribution to the practice of community pharmacy and an Honorary Doctorate (DLitt) by Swansea University in 2018 in recognition of his distinguished career and contribution to public life in Wales.