Well done Sonia @thementalelf.bsky.social @cmhpcommunity.pharmsky.app

Applications are now open! Go to pharmacyresearchuk.org/for-research... to find out more and all the info on how to apply.

We are delighted to announce that Nicola Greenhalgh is the new President of the CMHP. Read more on our website www.cmhp.org.uk/news/nicola-...

Check out @wypartnership.bsky.social and @england.nhs.uk's new webpage on "Anticholinergic Medicines" and their risks below 👇 www.wypartnership.co.uk/our-prioriti... Always great to see new resources promoting safe medication use in older adults!

Day 2 let’s go!!!! Come and see us on stand G1! @cpcongress.bsky.social #cpcongress

Great to be here at #cpcongress #cpcnorth stand G1, come and see us!

Looking forward to #IPPweek2025 next week! Are you interested in exploring how to make your workplace more inclusive and create better patient outcomes? If so, then scan the QR code and register now! Or go to www.cppe.ac.uk/news/a/1053/...

One week to go to @cpcongress.bsky.social. Please come visit us on stand G1 and find out more about what we do, benefits of membership and our educational events! #cpcnorth

Excited to be @rpharms.com conference today! If you’re here please do come down and see us and find out more about what we do! #rpsconf25

Congrats to our pharmacy team on winning best quality improvement @cmhpcommunity.pharmsky.app Awards, with colleagues from Greater Manchester Mental Health and Stockport Integrated Care Board. They won for their work to improve how Promazine, an antipsychotic medication, is prescribed and managed.

Interested to undertaking research into mental health pharmacy? Check out our funding partnership with @CMHPcommunity! pharmacyresearchuk.org/cmhp-pruk-re...

We're delighted to announce that Rachel Hogan and Ciara Hallows have been appointed CMHP Fellows. The Fellowship recognises significant and persistent contribution to the field of pharmacy in mental health. Congratulations Rachel and Ciara! Full announcement: www.cmhp.org.uk/news/cmhp-fe...

CMHP is proud & excited to be participating in this event which is open to all members of the pharmacy team. Inclusive Pharmacy Practice Week 2025 offers a series of FREE online interactive workshops exploring practical ways to create more inclusive workplaces & better patient outcomes. #IPPweek2025

Congratulations to our Foundation Trainee Project Award winner and runner up presented at our conference last month! Full details on our website www.cmhp.org.uk. Where authors were not available, awards were collected by colleagues.

Celebrating our award winners and our awards we present in collaboration with @astonuniversity.bsky.social. This prize is awarded by the Board of Examiners in memory of Helen Tennant. It is awarded each year to the student with the best overall performance in the PG Diploma in Psychiatric Pharmacy.

Celebrating our award winners from conference 2025 and our awards we present in collaboration with @astonuniversity.bsky.social. First up Celia Feetam Memorial Award. This award recognises the student with the best overall performance in PG Certificate in Psychiatric Therapeutics.

Celebrating our award winners from conference 2025. Winner and runner up for the Oral Practice Presentation Award. Congratulations Lex and Sonia! Full details on our website www.cmhp.org.uk

Celebrating our poster award winners! Congratulations to everyone who was a winner or runner up at our awards night at our conference last month! Full announcement on our website www.cmhp.org.uk. If poster authors were not available, awards were collected by colleagues.

BOOKINGS ARE OPEN! We are taking bookings for the first Psych 1 course of 2026. A great choice for for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians who are new to mental health. www.cmhp.org.uk/education-research/psych-1/

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Join us at Clinical Pharmacy Congress North in Manchester from 21-22 November. We will be available at exhibition stand G1 to discuss all things mental health pharmacy. We look forward to seeing you there.

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My pleasure! It was an excellent conference. #CMHP25 Thanks for inviting me and I hope we get to work together again in future. Props to all the dedicated and hard working pharmacists and pharmacy technicians 👏🏽

Thank you @thementalelf.bsky.social and Andre for your work over the last 2 days making our conference accessible to more than just the people in the room. We really valued your insightful commentary on all the sessions! #cmhp25

Next keynote at #CMHP25 is Dr Caroline Copeland from King’s College London who is speaking on: Medicines, Misuse & Mortality: Lessons for Mental Health Pharmacy. Her research exposes the human cost of medication misuse and how policy can sometimes make things worse. www.kcl.ac.uk/research/the...

Congratulations to the #CMHP25 poster winners

Our first #CMHP25 keynote is Dr Mary Doherty @autisticdoctor.bsky.social Clinical Associate Professor at UCD & founder of Autistic Doctors International. She will explore how autistic psychiatrists’ insights can help improve mental healthcare for autistic people. autisticdoctorsinternational.com

Now Sion is now saying a few words about the @nihr.bsky.social Pharmacy Professionals Incubator, which "aims to increase the capacity of pharmacy professionals working in all sectors to become involved in healthcare research". #CMHP25 pharmacyresearchprofessionals.org.uk

So what's important in this work by Sion and colleagues? People struggle to focus on 'healthy' meal decision-making People didn't release that their behaviour was changing, e.g. doing less exercise, gaining weight Existing advice evokes really negative responses #CMHP25

Structured plans and graded tasks may help build up confidence and low self-esteem, not to get people fit, but simply to encourage the first steps towards more physical activity #CMHP25

People often have low confidence or poor self-image, so giving them something like a gym pass is unlikely to help them increase their levels of exercise #CMHP25

Non-pharmacological management can take the form of these behaviour change interventions (modifiable determinants). The problem is, when we look at the research, the interventions are REALLY poorly described. #CMHP25 Things like information giving, diet, exercise etc. They don't map well to the TDF

So how can we address the metabolic side-effects of antipsychotics (e.g. weight gain, hypertension) using behaviour change techniques? About half of people taking antipsychotics have these side-effects. The drugs cause physiological and behavioural changes. So we can intervene. #CMHP25

Addressing capability and opportunity is important, but we can't change behaviour if we don't target motivation, says Sion #CMHP25

To change behaviour, people need to have the: 🌟 Capability 🌟 Opportunity 🌟 Motivation We can design interventions if we understand the importance of these three things - see the TDF (Theoretical Domains Framework) #CMHP25 thecenterforimplementation.com/toolbox/what...

MRC framework for developing and evaluating complex interventions doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... #CMHP25

Changing human behaviour is difficult, says Sion. We can use behaviour change theory to identify barriers that stop people from being healthy & work out how to help them. NICE now have guidance on behaviour change that "is a really good read" according to Sion #CMHP25 www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ph49

Sion is going to give us a general overview on behavioural science, and then speak specifically about antipsychotic side-effects and how we can use behavioural science techniques to address them #CMHP25

I'm reporting live from #CMHP25 where our next speaker is Dr Sion Scott from the University of East Anglia who is giving the PRUK Research Award talk: The role of behavioural science in addressing the side effects of mental health medicines. THREAD 🧵

Good morning everyone and welcome back to the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool for Day 2 of #CMHP25! Yesterday brought powerful insights on lived experience, menopause, and climate distress. Today we turn to autism, medicines misuse, and mental-health transformation. 🧵

That’s a wrap on Day 1 of #CMHP25 at the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool. Powerful sessions from Colette Lane on embedding lived experience at the heart of transformation, plus keynotes from Anita Solanki on menopause and Marc Williams on climate distress. 🧵

Fabulous to be with you all at the CMHP conference. After a packed day one, there is plenty to look forward to on day 2 #CMHP25

Our next keynote talk at #CMHP25 is from Dr Marc Williams @clinpsy-marc.bsky.social who is going to explore: Climate Distress, Coping, and the Role of Professionals in a Rapidly Warming World. A timely reminder that climate change is a mental health issue as well as an environmental one. THREAD🧵

Next up live at #CMHP25 we have Anita Solanki, Clinical Pharmacist and Menopause Specialist. Menopause and Mental Health: The Pharmacy Perspective. I really hope she encourages more pharmacists and other clinicians to bring hormones into mental health conversations. It's about time! THREAD 🧵

So inspired by Colette Lane, Professional Lead for Lived Experience at Surrey and Borders Partnership. How as pharmacy professionals can we bring lived experience expertise into our service development programmes and everything we do to really make things better for the people we care for? #cmhp25

Career progression pathways for people with lived experience being developed to work as peer workers is a huge step forward for MH services. ‘Lived experience should never be seen as an add on’ #cmhp25

Welcome to the #CMHP25 Memorial Lecture given by Colette Lane, Professional Lead for Lived Experience Development at Surrey & Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, who is going to talk about Embedding Lived Experience at the Heart of Transformation. Colette is joining live via Zoom. THREAD 🧵

Good morning from Liverpool! I’m André Tomlin from The Mental Elf, reporting live from the Adelphi Hotel for the College of Mental Health Pharmacists’ annual conference @cmhpcommunity.pharmsky.app 🌟 #CMHP25 🌟 Two days of science, stories & shared learning ahead. THREAD 🧵