*The evolving role of community pharmacy in smoking cessation* Uptake of the national pharmacy smoking cessation service remains low, but pharmacy teams could play a far greater role in helping people quit. Read the full feature below ⬇️ #smokingcessation #pharmacyservices buff.ly/2DCzMIo

This is very bad. UK BioBank saying it’s not that bad is even badder… 👎 But the answer to data leaks risk already exists -> OpenSAFELY by @bennettoxford.bsky.social - SAFE and SECURE analytics platform for large datasets, fully supported by @england.nhs.uk

Welcome to COPD UK - a UK conference for COPD healthcare professionals & researchers. COPD UK 2026 will take place between the 1st & 2nd June 2026 at the Spine RCP building, Liverpool. This years conference theme is: “COPD a modifiable disease” Conference information: www.copd-uk.com/home

The first thing Yaxley-Lennon did on leaving court was to thank Elon Musk for funding his legal costs. That's Elon Musk who has repeatedly called for civil war in the UK. As of typing this - all of the major politicians and platforms maintain a presence on X and it is time for them all to leave.

This week's @nature.com cover highlights a report of A.I.- mediated distortion When #ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants nature.com/articles/s41...

„The university told her that a combination of administrative issues meant they could no longer support her work. But further inquiries suggested the university was “explicitly trading my academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market,””

Do you work in #policy at local, regional, national government level? Fancy spending some time with like-minded researchers at @ox.ac.uk on the burning issues of the day? Consider our new Visiting Fellowship scheme just open this week: www.ox.ac.uk/research/usi...

🧠Great insights from Prof Julian Redhead on building NHS resilience for the winter ahead - highlighting the power of collaboration, innovation & system change.💬 #CARRiiASM #NHSResilience #WinterPressures #CARRii @oxprimarycare.bsky.social

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Calling ALL health data folk: Re UK Health Data Research Service. The UK gov & Wellcome have pledged up to £600 million to create a HDRS. Myself & an ace team have been tasked by Wellcome to assess the existing health data ecosystem & identify what is needed to support the HDRS 👇. Get in touch

For those who bash the NHS, note that British diabetics pay £0 insulin Patients with diabetes are eligible for a medical exemption certificate (FP92A), which covers all prescriptions related to their condition. This includes insulin, needles, testing strips, and other diabetes-related medications

It costs ~$70 to produce a year’s supply of insulin. Yet, the average annual cost of insulin went from $2,864 in 2012 to $5,705 in 2016 to $18,000 in 2025. A 25,714% markup. That isn’t inflation or supply chain—It’s corporate greed. Now—California will sell insulin for $11. Make this nationwide!

Happy World Pharmacist Day 💊

An absolute goldmine of health and mortality data 📊 Well done to all involved in this.

Analysis of exclusive data by #ThePJ has revealed that one in four #NHS trusts and health boards does not offer protected time as part of job plans for pharmacists. Here, #SophieWillis investigates whether or not trusts are preventing pharmacists from progressing in their careers

Of 46 proven cases of sexual misconduct from one year (Aug ‘23-Aug ‘24): ALL perpetrators were male doctors and over 80% held a position of authority. Another example from 2025: 12-month practice suspension for proven rape because it was deemed a “one-off event”. Is this for real?! 🤯

Fun article about “outsider” scientists and their breakthroughs. “Academia filters most funding, publishing, and hiring decisions through senior insiders, which favors ideas within existing paradigms.” worksinprogress.co/issue/why-sc...

A groundbreaking paper published @nature.com today—the first large health language model—predicts >1,000 diseases for a person and when. Implications here: erictopol.substack.com/p/dawn-of-a-...

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

The moment of a Russian UAV strike on Kharkiv today. The Russians hit the building of the National University of Pharmacy.

Come and join us at our 2025 Innovation day in Bristol! You can expect... 👑 Top class speakers 🥳 Networking opportunities 🖼️ Poster sessions 🛠️ Workshops 🍱 Lunch!!! See our full speaker line up and book your free place now www.bath.ac.uk/events/south...

Our new research published today sets out the valuable lessons we can learn from other countries' efforts to shift care from hospital to community. @sjanereed.bsky.social spoke to @financialtimes.com about Ireland's reform plans. 👇

Excellent, insightful write up on the issues surrounding learning difficulties and ADHD diagnoses, and more. Thank you @bennewmark.bsky.social for sharing your experience and perspective. I very much enjoyed reading this and learned a lot. And thanks @sarahjpharm.pharmsky.app for sharing the post💚

An ‘ultracrepidarian’ (19th century) is one who loves to give their opinion, at length, on matters they know nothing about.

Amazing woman and the co-founder of the University I graduated from 🤓

Doctors and drug developers who first saw scans from a new targeted form of radiotherapy were amazed. For some patients in the clinical trial, Novartis’ radioligand therapy had — in just six months — completely cleared cancer that had spread around their bodies. on.ft.com/462deTZ

Farewell 👋 and please PLEASE take your friends with you to this new milk and honey land 🫠 “…Russia’s “traditional values” were a natural draw for people, and a reason he chose to stay — as well as feeling freer in Russia to air his views.” 🤡

A very important caveat to the "AI stethoscope" that was completely ignored by many news outlets. Yet a high false positive rate can make a screening tool more harmful than useful. How can we encourage health journalists to be more critical of AI press releases? Cc @mgtmccartney.bsky.social

*stares in academia*

Countries on track to eliminate cervical cancer: -Australia by 2028 -Sweden by 2027 -Rwanda by 2030 -UK by 2040 -Indonesia by 2030 -Bhutan 2030 -El Salvador by 2030 -Canada by 2040 How? HPV vaccine. Same one RFK Jr is trying to ban. You will note USA is not on this list.

Forwarding this week’s motivation, sent to me by my husband. Apparently I had sent it to him 4 years ago (and it worked). You’re welcome

@rpharms.com is holding “strategy engagement events” as part of its preparation to transition into a Royal College. There will be events for members, students, public and Pharmaceutical scientists Details in link below (as well as a comprehensive faq) #PharmSky www.rpharms.com/royalcollege

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

NEW: There’s been a lot of discussion lately about rising graduate unemployment. I dug a little closer and a striking story emerged: Unemployment is climbing among young graduate *men*, but college-educated young women are generally doing okay. www.ft.com/content/a9ea...

I guess this is what we're going to have to get used to... NHS Worker (and British citizen of Filipino origin) with 15 years of service abused whilst walking with her family in W Yorkshire. She's leaving the country and I'm sorry. The tone from the top is always heard at the bottom.

Look at Cornwall, my previous home of 7 years, tightly surrounded by shit 🤢😧💔

This is sadly not surprising and should not be separated from the rise of extremism, distrust and misinformation across a range of social media platforms (as well as in some legacy media outlets) since the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands. Why is it that killing a single person is seen as murder but killing masses is excused if you are a politician?” Dr Bill Foege

Local and national governments should act to stop the spread of these oversized cars. As Anna Goodman says: “This has important implications for congestion, public space and road safety. The evidence is clear that SUVs increase road danger for people walking and cycling, particularly for children”

UK government public consultation open for feedback on the new proposal extending the list of meds (including controlled drugs) prescribable by paramedics, physios and other practitioners. Deadline: 28th Oct 2025. UK-only respondents.

“We don’t see an epidemic of autism, but we see an ‘epidemic’ of diagnoses” A fresh journalistic look at the rise in autism that brings together perspectives from the researchers & the autism community 🧪 #MedSky @nature.com by @helenpearson.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Update(s) from Serbia: the School of Philosophy at the University of Novi Sad has been overtaken by the police, who have evicted the students occupying the building since the start of the student-led movement for social change. The police are now attacking citizens who came to support students.

Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

"Oxford’s homicide rate was three to four times higher than that of London or York. The medieval university attracted young men aged 14-21, many living far from home, armed and steeped in a culture of honour [] quarrels between northerners and southerners regularly erupted into street battles."

How AI can recode the difficult process of drug discovery on.ft.com/4mrYJQi | opinion

UK Government will consult on enabling pharmacists working in a community pharmacy to have the flexibility to supply an alternative strength (and hence also quantity) or formulation against a prescription written by another prescriber. #Pharmsky #Medsky www.gov.uk/government/p...

📌 The SPIRIT 2025 statement updates the guidelines for randomized trial protocols to enhance their completeness, transparency, and consistency, benefiting stakeholders involved in clinical research. ja.ma/4fzMVZS

You know how people called women hysterical for predicting the right wing would take down Roe v. Wade (which they've done) and then attack access to birth control (which they're doing)? Hear me when I say that women's very right to vote is next. www.npr.org/2025/08/09/n...