A huge tribute to all my wonderful friends and colleagues on this #WorldPharmacistDay 2025 💚

On World Pharmacists Day 2025, we extend our heartfelt thanks to all our incredible care home pharmacists! Your dedication, smiles and lasting impact makes a real difference every day. National Pharmacy Care Homes Faculty (NPCHF) www.pcpa.org.uk/articles/pcp... #ThinkPharmacist

Congrats Abbie, our PCPA Pharmacy Technician Chair on winning APTUK Advancing Cinical Practice Award tonight @aptuk.bsky.social @abbiestirling.bsky.social @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app

Motherfucking wind farms…

🎉 PCPA CPIP FORUM - launched today!!!! If you follow @pcpa-uk.bsky.social on LinkedIn you can watch our President @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app introducing this new forum to support community pharmacy colleagues with prescribing practice. www.pcpa.org.uk/articles/cpi... #PCPAevents #PharmSky

Delighted to complete final DPP sign off for local Community Pharmacist Petya Bletsova today for her IP ✍🏻 ⭐ Petya bought donuts 🍩 for everyone- forgetting the 12 trainees are off for their exam tomorrow, luckily teenage boys at home will ensure no wastage - & me, GPs & nurses etc

❗️MPharm3 Students - ORIEL Deadline Wed 18th June - Register Now❗️ And of course - preference our unique 4️⃣ sector award winning training program, entering our 13th year - search ‘Argyle’ DPP in all four sectors GP - Hospital - Care Home - Community www.oriel.nhs.uk/Web/Home

Today ✅Foundation sign off & ✍🏻 Nurse / Pharmacist prescribing training Final sign off for foundation trainees Tarq & Arshida - thanks to Jade Pharmacy for further community / GP / Care Home collaborations Also Linda, Petya & Mericia nurse ACP & community pharmacist IP prescribing training

More evidence that structured approaches to drug management reduces the medicines 'burden' on individuals "our intervention nudged prescribers to regularly reassess [potentially inappropriate medications], which is important as people age and goals of care shift" jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

💡 I’m delighted to be chairing & speaking at the inaugural GP Pharmacy Virtual Event 💻 24 June 🤝 Fantastic line-up of Speakers 📃 Agenda: events.cogora.com/gp-pharmacy-... Join us! @thepharmacistnews.bsky.social

Listen to @pcpa-uk.bsky.social's very own @hpillminster.pharmsky.app on the @prescqipp.info Talking Meds Podcast with @jonathanunderhill.pharmsky.app here➡️ pcpa.co/HelenPOD #PharmSky #MedSky

Congratulations 🎉and thanks to @hfxamanda.bsky.social on 30 years NHS service at Heath Pharmacy, Halifax - mind boggling to think of the hundreds of thousands of consultations, prescriptions & patient interactions you must of had during that time 😮 @pcpa-uk.bsky.social @lauraangus.pharmsky.app

The venues for the GPhC @gphc.bsky.social registration assessment and further details have been released www.pharmacyregulation.org/students-and...

If your project's improved medicines optimisation for older people, you could win a #PrescQIPP2025 Award. Enter the 'Care homes/domiciliary care/carer medicines optimisation' category: www.prescqipp.info/community-re... @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app @coachingchemist.pharmsky.app @pcpa-uk.bsky.social

Gender inequalities exist in pain management arising from unconscious biases amongst health care professionals - the ‘gender pain gap’ youtu.be/v4O27X2pAyQ?... With thanks to Reckitt for the opportunity to explore and highlight this under recognised area 🧵 1/2👇🏻

Join me to talk about all things DPP and Prescribing Training @cpcongress.bsky.social 🗓️ 10 May 2025 🕰️ 13:00 - 13:30 📍 Integrated & Primary Care Theatre #cpcongress #PCPAevents @pcpa-uk.bsky.social @noma1.bsky.social

Great to see this sign at King’s Cross has gone fully multi - lingual and is welcoming folks from Yorkshire like @laulok.bsky.social @lauraangus.pharmsky.app @hadeelmohamed.bsky.social @suealldred.bsky.social

How can we optimise our primary care workforce? Opening keynote panel- at Primary Care Partnership Network (PCPN) Looking forward to participating in morning pcpn-uk.com/agenda/2025/ @fhussain73.bsky.social Sonia Kumar @victoriatb.bsky.social Rachel Power Estefania Costa @pcpa-uk.bsky.social

In this months Spotlight Podcast @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app talks to our special guest, @drmahendrapatel.bsky.social, globally recognised, multi-award-winning pharmacist and academic leader. Listen@https://www.pcpa.org.uk/resources/pcpa-spotlight-podcast-prof-mahendra-patel-obe

In praise of training (and trainees)…. Everyone in these photos is a trainee (bar a couple of consented patients)- undergrad, foundation trainee, foundation, PCPEP, IP, ACP, DPP or PhD Many have trained with me over last 15 years and how am I doing 39 week & GPhC assessment entry forms already?

Eid Mubarak to all members, friends & colleagues celebrating - warmest wishes from all at PCPA #EidAlFitr #EidAlFitr2025 #Eid2025 #EidMubarak  #Eidmubarak2025 #EidUlFitr #EidulFitr2025

Happy Mother’s Day to all members, colleagues and friends who do an awesome job of balancing motherhood and work!! from all at PCPA #mothersday2025

Come on Scotland!!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏉

✅ Vote Now - for a Royal Colllege of Pharmacy Link : ow.ly/ZItz50Vh4xc

Royal College of Pharmacy VOTE YES ✅ TODAY For support, development and engagement - For improved career progression and greater professional satisfaction

Royal College of Pharmacy VOTE YES ✅ for a collaborative, cohesive leadership body for pharmacy

Shout out to my fabulous women colleagues (I’m the only male!) who provide exemplary care for Care Home residents in Ealing at @westlondonnhs One of our GPs seems to have made me an honorary woman (far right-green Christmas tie) for the day 💁‍♀️ #IWD2025 #InternationalWomensDay

Are you a Care Home Pharmacist, Pharmacy Technician or Academic? The National Pharmacy Care Home Faculty- NPCFH has been created to provide networking, credentialing, research collaboration & advocacy NPCHF launch 12th Feb at 8pm Register: pcpa.co/NPCHFWeb With @pcpa-uk.bsky.social

Got a Fiendish case? “Fiendish Cases -Learning from Real Life Polypharmacy” -Imperial College HP -DM me to present your case at this session!! Medicines Optimisation - Case-Based Discussions Wed 12th Feb 2025 from 12 pm to 2 pm Register for the session: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/2bf8dc...

Recording : GP and PCNs - foundation pharmacist training - What’s in it for me? bit.ly/GPprereg = recording on PCPA And bit.ly/GPprereg1 = Slides Read a blog in The Pharmacist News about how it works in our practice here www.thepharmacist.co.uk/in-practice/...

Great to have @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app writing for The Pharmacist about why GP/PCN pharmacists should consider hosting a trainee, what foundation trainee pharmacists can do, and how to get employers & local partners on board. #PharmSky #PrimaryCare #GPSky www.thepharmacist.co.uk/in-practice/...

Establishing the barriers & enablers to research within the pharmacy profession The study is part of a wider project known as the Pharmacy Professionals Incubator. The survey will takes 15 min to complete & will close on 17 Feb 2025. Link here: bit.ly/PharmResearch @debibhattacharya.bsky.social

Two 1st yesterday - Humera, foundation trainee day 1 in GP/Care Home -Petya, 1st day IP -Qualified August Humera (L) - interpreted HBPM & bloods, counselled, initiated antihypertensives & arranged follow up Petya (R) - CVD prescribing scope at UWE

Ongoing experiential learning for foundation trainee pharmacists - oseltamivir prescribing has become an entrustable activity now with the frequency of outbreaks over last month Started with Endocrinology Cases & interesting lithium induced tremor case Then 2 homes prescribed oseltamivir

“This research shows that the success of such initiatives is …dependent …on the ongoing experiential learning and support that will need to be put in place at scale.” Much to agree with Bruce Warner, Tracey Thornley, Claire Anderson & @tonyavery.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Foundation Trainee Pharmacists in 2026/27 - Information for General practice/PCNs - V2.0 January 2025 Gone ‘live’ this evening www.hee.nhs.uk/sites/defaul...

🔔 @pcpa-uk.bsky.social @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app National Pharmacy Care Home Faculty 💊

☣️ Another influenza outbreak in Care Homes treated /prophylaxed in half a day yesterday through collaboration btw hospital - Care Homes Team inc Nurses, Pharmacy Technicians & Foundation Trainees at West London NHS & Mr Gill and team at Gill Pharmacy & of course our wonderful Care Homes Staff

Congratulations to Jenani Umasuthan from Chiswick PCN Pharmacy team - I was delighted to present the trophy last week so well deserved Pharmacy Technician of the Year 24/25 from @pcpa-uk.bsky.social Thanks to Liz Fidler for exemplary judging

Busy week of week 26 sign offs and complex case based discussions for Group 1 of our West London NHS Trust / Argyle GP / Community Pharmacy / NHS North West London foundation trainee pharmacists Shaaliny Nazifa Raisah Irene Hemzah Tarq

Prescribing has long (>12 years) been part of Foundation Pharmacist Training Argyle GP and now West London NHS Trust 🧵 1/4

Promoting the work of the UK Pharmacy Professional Leadership Advisory Board on here because I don’t like the ‘other place’ 😏 We’re also on Linked In #PharmSky jointheconversation.scwcsu.nhs.uk/pharmacy-pro...

Four of our foundation trainees Nazifa, Irene, Raisah and Hemsah meet the respiratory hero that is @darushattar.bsky.social last night at Royal Nawaab London - here seen modeling the excellent Right Breathe resources (and shirt)

It's beginning to look a lot like #antimicrobialmas... The first in our 2024 NCAS Christmas poster series - stay tuned for the remaining posters to be released over the coming weeks. #AMSsky

Congratulations Nadira on your graduation 👩‍🎓 ceremony today at Reading University Who said ICB pharmacists can’t become prescribers? IPs join our NHSE commissioned DPP training Propharmace.com/est

New PCPA Spotlight Podcast @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app talks to Nazir Hussain, award winning practice pharmacist with a special interest in respiratory: pcpa.co/Spotlight_Na...

“Use of ARRS staff was significantly associated with lower prescription rates (p<0.001) & higher patient satisfaction (p<0.001)” The Effects of ARRS staff in England on Prescription Patterns & Patient Satisfaction @catianicodemo.bsky.social Br J Gen Pract 2024; DOI: doi.org/10.3399/BJGP...

A second beta 3 agonist has been approved by the Scottish Medicines Consortium - vibegron (Obgemsa) 75mg tablets A second OAB medication without anticholinergic actions together with mirabegron

Out shooting ‘architecture’ for my eldest’s A-Level portfolio He is pleased with these shots of you know where

Congratulations to Chiswick PCN Pharmacy team - finalists at the GP Awards