The South West Pharmacy Research Network - @swpharmres.bsky.social - is a friendly group that promotes & supports #PharmacyResearch in the south west of England. 📆Their 2025 Innovation Day on 31 Oct in Bristol is an opportunity to learn, share & network. Info & register below. 🔽 #PharmSky

Pharmacies should be at the heart of #HIV prevention by raising awareness of and offering #PrEP - a pill that stops HIV transmission. 💊 Recommendations have been published in a new @policybristol.bsky.social briefing. 📰News: tinyurl.com/ywu9xre5 📄Policy briefing: tinyurl.com/5n6bhzj3

The briefing draws on research by @jhorwood.bsky.social & colleagues showing that pharmacy-based PrEP awareness & delivery is both feasible & acceptable. "To realise its full potential, we need comprehensive training for pharmacy staff & targeted co-produced campaigns to raise awareness." J Horwood

Most people think fentanyl is the scariest opioid, but in reality it's boo-prenorphine.

In Amman preparing for 2 day research prioritisation workshop around prescription &OTC medicines dependence. Bringing tog academics, policy makers & leaders from health &) justice in Jordan & UK. Funded by @cbrl.bsky.social CBRL staff incredibly helpful this morning helping us finalise details 🙏.

Under the skin: childhood maltreatment & multimorbidity. 🧒 Early adversity doesn’t just affect mental health — it’s also linked to heart disease & diabetes. A new genetic study shows how metabolic changes may connect maltreatment to multimorbidity. 🧵 #ChildhoodTrauma #Multimorbidity

Experts urge the medical profession to confront the global arms industry. In a new @bmj.com series uncovering the role of the arms trade in health, Mark Bellis, Gene Feder & colleagues call for greater scrutiny of its health-harming activities & relationship with governments. tinyurl.com/yc5mu9xb

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

Bristol City Council’s leader Tony Dyer manages to cut through some of the tricky aspects of the flag debate here news.bristol.gov.uk/press-releas...

Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week. newatlas.com/energy/large...

📝New blog: Learning from each other: reflections on a public co-applicant collaboration in primary care research. @neuro-observant.bsky.social & @charlotte-archer.bsky.social share their experience of working together as a public co-applicant & principal investigator. tinyurl.com/hf4sh5jb

Delighted to be joining the wonderful poet & NHS palliative care nurse @mollycasespeakes & @lilyredwoodpoet for an evening of story and poetry exploring living, dying, loss & love in stunning Fitzrovia Chapel. Please do join us. 📅 Thurs 25 Sept 🕕 Doors 6pm (drink on arrival) 🎟 Tickets £10

Woop woop getting to hear this in presentation form from the very talented Danilo Falzon, @sacasrstir.bsky.social Research Assistant and @socscinapier.bsky.social PhD student!

CALLING ALL ADDICTIONS RESEARCHERS Please see below regaring the following opportunity available: mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/opportunitie...

RADAR alert issued on nitazenes and contamination of the drugs supply - publichealthscotland.scot/news/2025/au...

🔊 Member profile alert! Here's your next chance to meet one of our network members and 2024 poster presenters: Victoria Ling. 🩺 Her project on clinical skills training for foundation pharmacists could hardly be more timely.

A great honour to receive the award of Honorary Doctor of the University of Portsmouth and address the 2025 Faculty of Science & Health graduands. Thank you all again for being so gracious & generous to me over the years - www.port.ac.uk/news-events-...

Obituaries: Bill Scott, Chief Pharmaceutical Officer for Scotland 1993 - 2014, medical visionary who transformed the role of pharmacists in patient care. #Pharmsky www.scotsman.com/news/people/...

Population-based study finds a decrease in potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) claim costs among older adults in Quebec 🇨🇦 from $206 million in 2012 to $186 million in 2021: buff.ly/qYQnhjQ Appropriate prescribing and #Deprescribing are crucial to ensure these cost declines are sustained!

📰News!📰We are celebrating the launch of a new booklet sharing findings, stories & recommendations from a study investigating the risks of combining opioids with sedatives like benzos and z-drugs. @hannah-family.bsky.social @jokesten.bsky.social @arc-west.bsky.social Read more ➡️ bit.ly/453HUF9

The University of Bradford have 70 NHSE funded spaces for the September 2025 cohort of 'Specialist Mental Health Pharmacy Pathway' which is open to Pharmacy Technicians! Visit their website for further details: tinyurl.com/mrypkwnt

Join me at Nursing Live UK on 5th November at Birmingham NEC. I will be speaking about nurses' experiences of domestic abuse/coercive control alongside presentations on professional development and personal wellbeing. Click the link to discover more about this FREE event. lnkd.in/eK-8Fpwt

Syringe services programs operated in only 13% of US counties in 2022, with substantial gaps in coverage in areas of high need for hepatitis C, HIV, and overdose prevention. ja.ma/3GWKQKm

🔊Our first Addictions Research and Practice SIG meeting has been scheduled for August the 5th 16-1730📢 If you didn't receive a teams invite and were expecting to please email: [email protected] or message us below! Please share 🧑🏽‍🤝‍🧑🏽 @mhrincubator.bsky.social

ARE YOU A UK MEDICAL STUDENT OR DOCTOR? Please take part in this short survey about medical education in the UK. Thankyou! standrews.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

A must-read on the underlying problems of a life sciences strategy based on selling more (and more expensive) stuff to the NHS, and an NHS plan which envisages saving £££ through efficiencies and prevention. It doesn't add up.

If you live in Bath, Bristol or Chippenham areas, this may be of interest:

📢📢 'Pharmacists emerged as the statutory service which was most likely to have been experienced as supportive rather than unsupportive' from the @PublicHealthSCO Lived Experience survey. Brilliant! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 publichealthscotland.scot/publications/e… @PharMag_Richard @PJOnline_News

For researchers interested in applying for the @bnssgresearch.bsky.social Launching Fellowship Award 2025, please join this seminar to find out more. Speakers: CAPC colleagues Charlotte Lee and @charlotte-archer.bsky.social, both previous awardees. 📆17 July 2025, 1-2pm, online. bit.ly/4lu5Abx

1/3 - General practice has a vital role to play in the societal response to violence against women & girls, says Prof Gene Feder & colleagues in a new @bjgp.bsky.social editorial. bjgp.org/content/75/7... #GPSky #MedSky #VAWG #PrimaryCare @nihrspcr.bsky.social @bnssgresearch.bsky.social

1/3 Coming up: Life in a Coastal Town - a new free exhibition exploring #MentalHealth and community, Weston Museum, Weston-super-Mare, 8-17 July 2025. The exhibition shares original artwork by local people exploring their experiences during some of life's toughest times. More info: bit.ly/4ltc4H8

So much important information here. ‘of the approx 750 children who will drown next year, about 375 of them will do so within 25 yards of a parent or other adult.’ ‘10 percent of those drownings, the adult will actually watch the child do it, having no idea it is happening.’

New survey to identify and understand the barriers and enablers to nurses (Bands 5-7) having a career in research. If you are a nurse working in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, please complete the survey 👇 Closes August 2025 www.bristolhealthpartners.org.uk/news/constan...

We are looking for NHS mental health trusts to be part of this – please contact me directly. More information can be found here: drjohnabaker.co.uk/staffedwards/

NEW STUDY: Launching 1st July our new NIHR HSDR funded study #StaffedWards that will over the next 30 months, explore relationship between staff and ward characteristics and patient safety incidents on adult mental health wards.

Creepy crawlies.... if ever there was a time to start to love the little creatures, it is now, during Insect Week

Our paper on synthetic cannabinoids in vapes in schools out today: 454 vapes tested, from 27 schools. 17.4% had synthetic cannabinoids present. We think these are being sold/supplied as THC. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Plastic waste can be converted into painkillers - using E. coli https://go.nature.com/44o3zq4

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Medicalisation of public health: a narrative review Yep This stuff matters enormously The medicalization of population health policy is a significant risk to, well, health Read alongside Lantz pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37096631/

In the face of so much that's wrong, it's important to keep noticing that there are a great many people doing good things. Just quietly gettingbon with it-- it's a reminder that together we have loads of possibilities & potential between us. The key thing is to notice it & make space for listening.

Nominations are now open for the Barnett Award, for RPS members who have made outstanding contributions to the growth and development of the pharmacy profession. Awarded in memory of Professor Nina Barnett, who died in September 2023. Find out more: bit.ly/3WlIfyD

I've just watched Attenborough's Oceans film. It's excellent. But my overwhelming feeling is "at last!" I've been waiting, and fruitlessly lobbying, for a film like this for 40 years. But the institutional cowardice of the broadcasters has stymied such projects, until now.

Nordic Social Pharmacy conference 2025. Hannah Family presenting on behalf of our team on work to reduce benzo-opioid co-use deaths.

Study on London 20 mph limits shows: - collisions ⬇️ 35% - casualties ⬇️ 36% - fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34% - child casualties ⬇️ 46% - child deaths ⬇️ 75% - walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28% etsc.eu/20mph-limits...

We've just published a scoping review of projects that aim to improve opioid agonist therapy (eg. methadone) in acute hospital settings: journals.plos.org/mentalhealth.... This is part of our excellent iHOST project (www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...). A couple of findings ...

🌟 We’re Hiring: North West London Liver Surveillance Coordinator🌟 This role will work to promote hepatitis awareness and liver health among affected communities, whilst increasing access to hepatitis treatment and liver disease care. www.hepctrust.org.uk/job/north-we...

It’s a wrap… #RHSChelsea2025 has come to an end today 🌿 It’s been a wonderful experience. We’ve welcomed thousands of visitors to The Pathway Garden and held many interesting, valuable conversations about the garden and Pathway’s work. (1/4)

Dear ICU pharmacist colleague. Please complete our brief clinical pharmacysurvey for adult ICU. @rsbournie.bsky.social @markborthwick.bsky.social @chrisremmington.bsky.social @esicm.bsky.social @sccmcriticalcare.bsky.social @ukcpa.bsky.social #together #weareICU docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The Government is currently advertising the role of Independent Advisor to the UK Government on drugs. This is the role that Dame Carol Black has held for several years, originally appointed under the Conservative Government. 1/3