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

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

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

Wishing all Foundation Trainee Pharmacists sitting the GPhC assessment tomorrow all the very best !!!

Eid Mubarak to all members, friends & colleagues celebrating - warmest wishes from all at PCPA #EidulAdha2025 #EidMubarak #EidAlAdha

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

Early morning start for the @pcpa-uk.bsky.social Committee Team Gorgeous venue in Leicester this year. #PCPAevents

Our wonderful @pcpa-uk.bsky.social Midlands Symposium Chair Minesh Parbat welcomes delegates and kicks start the full packed day of workshops & decisions about current challenges in Primary Care for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians #PCPAevents

Brilliant paper on why promethazine is not a good option to aid sleep, and yet prescribing of it has doubled in last 5 yrs. What about OTC sales too, and also diphenhydramine. #anticholinergics #falls #dementia #delirium #ACBscore www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#EarthDay 🌳 Greener PCPA Aims: 🍃Build awareness & highlight best practice in sustainability & greener practice 🍃 Inspire & inform fellow pharmacy professionals 🍃 Offer practical & pragmatic ways of working on the climate change agenda www.pcpa.org.uk/articles/Gre...

NOT TO BE MISSED!! @npchf.bsky.social members only webinar. The one and only Anne Child MBE sharing her insights and experience on Dementia - A holistic approach. Join us & register your #NPCHF membership here: www.pcpa.org.uk/articles/pcp... @pcpa-uk.bsky.social @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app

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

Delighted to see this report published today. I undertook the research via my consultancy, Watson Research & Training, and much of the evidence was derived from the Dunhill Medical Trust & Chief Scientist Office studies that explored the medicine-related needs of older people with sensory impairment

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

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

Royal College of Pharmacy VOTE YES ✅ TODAY For collaberation, cohesion and a progressive leadership body for pharmacy For support, development and engagement - For improved career progression and greater professional satisfaction Vote now: mi-vote.com/secure/rpharms

Royal College of Pharmacy VOTE YES ✅ TODAY For support, development and engagement - For improved career progression and greater professional satisfaction Vote now: mi-vote.com/secure/rpharms

Insightful accounts & interesting perspectives of the evolving Pharmacy Technician role in Primary Care. As we brace ourselves for another landscape change, this @pcpa-uk.bsky.social skills matrix couldn't come at a better time. Workforce planning will be vital for challenges ahead #GPSky #PharmSky

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 support, development and engagement - For improved career progression and greater professional satisfaction

Royal College of Pharmacy VOTE YES ✅ 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

#RamadanMubarak ! We’d like to wish all members, colleagues and their families all the blessings of the holy month from PCPA. #ramadanmubarak2025 #RamadanKareem

De-prescribing for people with #MCI Mild cognitive impairment. The STOP-DEM project produced a toolkit to help www.arc-wx.nihr.ac.uk/research-are... @nihrarcs.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social @pcpa-uk.bsky.social @stephenlim.bsky.social @gerisoc.bsky.social @uhsft.bsky.social #polypharmacy

Beautiful acknowledgement and tribute to Helen Whiteside by @heathersmith.pharmsky.app Helen leaves a profound legacy. Wonderful resources and papers shared this evening. #NPCHF #PCPAevents #PharmSky

216 participants on tonight's National Pharmacy Care Home Faculty Launch Webinar. If you have missed this event and you're either a pharmacist /pharmacy technician working in care homes, you can become a #NPCHF member. Join - pcpa.co/NPCHFpage PCPA members - contact [email protected] #PharmSky

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

Enter now to be in for a chance to win a #PrescQIPP2025 Award. We have 5 categories available including 'Care homes/domiciliary care/carer medicines optimisation'. 👉 www.prescqipp.info/community-re... @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app @coachingchemist.pharmsky.app @pcpa-uk.bsky.social

LIVE: Launch webinar of National Pharmacy Care Home Faculty. If you are a pharmacist or pharmacy technician and work in care homes - register to be a member of #NPCHF Join NPCHF Here - pcpa.co/NPCHFpage If you are @pcpa-uk.bsky.social Member - contact [email protected] #PharmSky

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/...

Join @pcpa-uk.bsky.social TOMORROW 🗓️ Wednesday 5th February at 12.15 to 13:30 Have your say at the UKPPLAB Webinar- Register here: www.pcpa.org.uk/events/UKPPL... #collaborativePPL 🔁 share widely #PharmSky Follow #PCPAevents for updates on socials

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

Happy #LunarNewYear to all members, colleagues and friends celebrating from all at PCPA

I have a big ask. My 9yo son is autistic and he’s been raising a betta fish he named Kevin. Yesterday He asked if he could “share a photo of Kevin with the whole world“. I don’t know if this will work, but a dad’s gotta try. Like and share if that’s your thing. Kevin says hi! 🐟👋

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

@pcpa-uk.bsky.social Primary Care Pharmacy Association and the National Pharmacy Association have an exciting joint initiative to announce for post qualification community pharmacist prescribers in the new year - I’m thrilled about it 🧵 3/4

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...

CHARMER has made the move to Bluesky 👋 CHARMER is a five-year (2020-2025) England-wide deprescribing study involving doctors and pharmacists across 24 NHS hospitals, aiming to enhance the care of older inpatients. Follow us to stay updated!

Great #carehome falls training session.All working in partnership to keep people at home.Care home team,NWAS,ELHT intensive home support,meds opt team,wound care,falls lifting service,frailty scores & iStumble app Talked about fall risk increasing drugs(FRIDs)& ACB scores. #supportcarehomes 🏡❤️

RPS Fellows List is officially OUT! 819 now 🤩 Congratulations to all Fellow pharmacists who have been successfully nominated. Happy Friday everyone! If there’s a friend on the list who you know but haven’t spoken to in a while. Message them & share the joy! #PharmSky www.rpharms.com/about-us/new...

Warmest congratulations to Jenani Umasuthan, Pharmacy Technician at Chiswick PCN Primary Care Pharmacy Association - Pharmacy Technician of the Year 2024 @pcpa-uk.bsky.social #PharmSky

Oh my goodness ! So proud of the wonderful team @ourhealthpartnership!!! Thankyou to the @pcpa-uk.bsky.social !!!!

🌟 TONIGHT 🌟 ⏰ 20:00 #PCPAawards 2024 Good luck to all the nominees! Always a wonderful occasion to celebrate the hard work and achievements by so many individuals and pharmacy teams. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

RPS « Medicines shortages » report released today PCPA President @grahamstretch.bsky.social - ‘Medicines shortages prevent our patients from accessing vital medicines & are creating real harms - increasing workloads for pharmacy professionals across all settings’ www.rpharms.com/medicinessho...

THIS WEEK!!!!!! Join the call if you can Please help spread the word and repost! #PharmSky

Not sure the learning outcome ‘decorating the office’ for Marwa and Gael is yet met 🎄 Decorating their ES and poor Hamse, peer trainee, not really the idea #PharmSky

Thank you @yhpsrc.bsky.social for a fantastic event showcasing PhD researchers! ⭐️ Inspiring to learn about the research journeys of Prof Reema Harrison & Dr Lauren Ramsey, as well as hearing updates from fellow students & the chance to present my research. Added bonus was winning a prize ☺️

Last wk snow… This wk floods… London bound. Reporting for @pcpa-uk.bsky.social Vice President duties. Grown up conversations about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion. This topic isn’t going to be easy. Thx to PCPA members & Support Network Telegrammers for all the interactions on this over the yrs

Belated post. Lovely to see the Dudley Pharmacy team doing so well @pcpa-uk.bsky.social leadership event -Sarah and Naz!