Please repost @bright-group.bsky.social @kazjm.bsky.social @drlucypotter.bsky.social @lucyselman.bsky.social @drpoco.bsky.social @clarethomasvll.bsky.social @shobadawson.bsky.social @christiec.bsky.social @jscottuob.bsky.social @jhorwood.bsky.social safespaces-againstviolence.axa.com/en/

We have a couple of MPharm final year projects to share, take a look at the posts below. Do considering participating if you can and help support tomorrow's pharmacists in developing their #PharmacyResearch skills 💚 🧵 1/4

Colleagues @bristolbrc.bsky.social are looking for patients/members of the public to join their Public Advisory Group to help shape their research. More info 🔽

deprescribing.org, Canada's Drug Agency, & ISMP Canada, are happy to have co-developed '5 Tips to Manage Polypharmacy', a new resource for clinicians to emphasize 5 crucial tips to manage #polypharmacy. ➡️ Find Links to the Full Toolkit and Shareable Handout here: deprescribing.org/resources/5-...

You and other pharmacy professionals might find this review useful to help evidence provisions and need doi.org/10.17034/7nb...

Would be good to see an evidence review of OPCs/DCRs in the PJ, there's plenty out there. This editorial doesn't give pharmacy professionals the health or economic arguments for provision.

Thousands of people with undiagnosed #HIV & #hepatitis have been found through opt-out testing in emergency departments. Our research is showing how emergency care can be a gateway to earlier diagnosis & prevention Our @hpruebs.bsky.social evaluation ⬇️ hpruebs.nihr.ac.uk/projects/eme... 🛟 #STISky

New data shows opt-out blood-borne virus testing in emergency departments is highly effective. The programme identified many undiagnosed infections, including hepatitis C & HIV but particularly hepatitis B. Almost 70% of people with a new diagnosis hadn't been tested before.

This learning article provides an overview of how implementing trauma-informed care and psychologically-informed environments in pharmacy settings can improve patient outcomes #ukpharmacy #mentalhealth #trauma buff.ly/s7ajpTZ

We wrote an article explaining why you shouldn't put several variables into a regression model and report which are statistically significant - even as exploratory research. bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/.... How did we do?

Can peer-led testing for hepatitis C be implemented in community pharmacy? YES! AND you can offer health screening alongside and people engage with it. www.mdpi.com/2226-4787/13...

(1/2) My MPharm4 students are doing a project on pharmacists' experiences of #AdvancedPractice credentialling. We are looking for focus group participants who have achieved recognition under @rpharms.com Core Advanced credentialling or @england.nhs.uk Centre for Advancing Practice route (or both!)

Coming up: Research in Emergency Care Avon Collaborative Hub (REACH) Annual Showcase 2025. This event will highlight innovative approaches & current emergency care research, with a particular focus on capacity building. 📆10 Nov 2025 ⏰9am-3pm 📍The Watershed, Bristol, BS1 5TX tinyurl.com/yttckv6u

Coming up: Beneath the skin - an intimate look at our bodies Prof Gene Feder & surgeon Gabriel Weston take a look at how bodies are seen in medicine. 📆30 October 2025 ⏰7.30pm 📍Hen & Chicken, 210 North Street, Bristol BS3 1JF Tickets: tinyurl.com/yrfcd4nw @bristolhealthp.bsky.social

We co-developed a resource with people with living experience of using pharmacies for substance use services, to support pharmacy teams to better understand what it feels like & reduce stigma. Free, just need to download. Please do share: express-licences.bristol.ac.uk/product/voic...

A very useful resource to support medicines safety in sensory - vision/hearing impaired people. Link in 2nd message below.

#NHS policies to improve care for people taking multiple medicines may not be effective, finds new @exeter.ac.uk @capcbristol.bsky.social research. The IMPPP Trial found that a structured, patient-centred medication review did not reduce potentially inappropriate prescribing. tinyurl.com/mr2bh9aj

When’s the last time you saw a hedgehog? 🦔 Their numbers are falling, so I just signed a petition to make hedgehog highways - tiny gaps in fences to help them - mandatory in ALL new builds. Add your name: 38d.gs/72vc?utm_cam...

Coming soon: Webinar: Evaluating impact in Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE). Join us for this FREE 90-minute session on the different approaches to evaluating PPIE in health research, led by #PPIE experts. 📆Tues 21 Oct 2025, 1-2.30pm Register: tinyurl.com/5xvmpdmw

Do you work in medicines optimisation? Are there specific resources you would like PrescQIPP to produce for you? Take part in the first section of our work plan consultation for 2026 to 2028 and submit your ideas using the link below before 20th October 2025 https://ow.ly/HoKS50XaCUk

We're delighted to congratulate Professor Cathy McKenzie, RPS Science and Research Committee member, on her appointment as the UK's first Professor of Intensive Care Pharmacy at the University of Southampton. Read more: https://bit.ly/4hf00sb

💊Community pharmacists in Scotland - please consider participating in an interview with my #PhD student.💊 No specialist knowledge of depression is required: it is your opinions & perceptions that matter. Thank you. #CommunityPharmacy #Pharmacist #Scotland #research #depression See QR code ⬇️

Here is a new paper from our team looking at motivations for co-use of benzodiazepines and opioids. Highlights the big gaps in access to appropriate mental health care. @capcbristol.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

How do we keep GPs in the job? New research from Sophie Park. www.phc.ox.ac.uk/news/gp-work...

Webinar: Evaluating impact in Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE). Join us for this FREE 90-minute session on the different approaches to evaluating PPIE in health research, led by PPIE experts. 📆Tues 21 Oct 2025, 1-2.30pm Register: tinyurl.com/5xvmpdmw @nihrspcr.bsky.social

🔥 Britain is about to launch a new GCSE in natural history – a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world.

Dear parents - Yes you can give your sick child paracetamol if they’re >3 months old. It’s an excellent painkiller. It brings down a high temperature. It’s one of the safest drugs available. You are right to want to soothe your child’s distress. Evidence supports your good parenting. Be confident.

Today is #WorldPharmacistDay. Community pharmacies & pharmacists play a huge role in England's primary care. But often this role is poorly understood. In our explainer we explore how community pharmacy works, how it's funded & what the future might hold. https://bit.ly/4mh7Gev

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