🧵 Is it a super flu year? Who knows, but I think the current reporting is stupid. A pissed off thread using data. Firstly - here are today's headlines and some from the last 3 years... spot the difference. 1/10

🔥Updated @medscape.com primary care #hack on #lipid management🔥 Incorporates 🔑messages from @escardio.bsky.social @eassociety.bsky.social focused update on #lipid modification guidance PDF download link in comments 👇🏾 @hpillminster.pharmsky.app @pharmrj.pharmsky.app

💪🏾Mind the Muscle: Incretin Therapies for Weight Loss 💪🏾 🔥The hottest of topics with incretin therapies🔥 Here's my last @medscape.com perspective piece from the ObesityWeek congress in Atlanta - link in comments 👇🏾 @pharmrj.pharmsky.app @hpillminster.pharmsky.app @jjmounjaro.bsky.social

Ooh look at @thetimes.com sports books of 2025. @lilycanter.bsky.social and I did not know this was happening until I started getting WhatsApp messages as Granny had spotted it. Not bad for a book that was rejected by multiple publishers who weren't interested in women's stories.

Always good to get updates from Philip Newland-Jones on diabetes care. New NICE updates on the horizon. SGLT2i value highlighted for new diagnosis of T2DM + CVD risk. Challenges the clinical inertia with SGLT2i for patient who are frail, female and from ethnic minority backgrounds #PCPAevents

Recommended read 📖 NHSE Update from Richard Cattell at PCPA Leadership Conference www.england.nhs.uk/publication/... #PCPAevents

@pcpa-uk.bsky.social ANNUAL LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE Welcome address by Minesh Parbat & UKPPLAB Update from @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app #PCPAevents

New event for community pharmacy and general practice launched Join forces with over 1,000 primary care professionals at our new Community Pharmacy and General Practice Conference, in association with the National Pharmacy Association (NPA).

Menopause is now part of routine NHS health checks - a step in the right direction for women’s health 👏 Support your patients with practical tools, pathways & guidance from PCWHS. Explore our menopause resources 🔗 www.pcwhs.co.uk/resources #WomensHealth #Menopause #PrimaryCare

Oooo worth a listen! @drkevinfernando.bsky.social knows how to draw a crowd and guaranteed to delivered superb CPD content. Let me present BlueSky Exhibit A: @bestpracticeshow.bsky.social Session on LFTs (Bonus points if you can spot me!) #BestPracticeShow #GPsky #PrimaryCare

I think we're one or two bad polls away from someone in the government promising to deport any immigrants who won't get rid of their accent. Someone really needs to take Starmer aside and have a quiet word about not being so bloody stupid.

Also there for DAY 2. One of the best pharmacists around! Catch him if you can!!! #PS25UK #PharmacyShow

Day 1 @bestpracticeshow.bsky.social ✅ Highlights for me: - packed out session by @drkevinfernando.bsky.social on abnormal LFTS. Who knew that clinical diploma module on hepatic med would be handy? - Meeting some @nhsconfed.org Alumni - Catching with ex PCCLEs & my BFF @pharmrj.pharmsky.app

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

We did it! Macmillan Walk To a Support 10k Bham. The winklets did good; finished by 2hrs! The rain just came in at the last 800m. So proud of them. This one’s for Nanny Pat, close friends & my lovely patients over the past 20 years 💚 www.justgiving.com/page/teamkilmo

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If you take one thing from World Suicide Prevention Day today it should be this: if you think someone isn’t OK, ask them about it. You can interrupt someone’s suicidal thoughts. You could even save their life. Let’s prevent suicide today. Because tomorrow’s too late. ☎️ 116 123 #MentalHealth

We are HIRING! Researchers & analysts Come and join us shipping code, papers and tools like OpenSAFELY and OpenPrescribing www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/09...

2 weeks to go! And of course I’ve forgotten to the share the Mini K’s Macmillan 10k JustGiving Page! Obvs I’ll be with them. This our first charity outing! If you able to repost - like or even donate VERY MUCH APPRECIATED! #MiniKs10Kcharityhike #helpushelpthem www.justgiving.com/page/teamkilmo

Great opportunity to join us at the University of Leeds as a Research Fellow in Quality and Safety, focusing on applied research to improve medicines safety and patient safety... jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

You can't say you weren't warned...

Saw a few weeks ago that someone wanted to re-start #pharmfoods on here so I give you Italian chicken melt with roasted new potatoes. Wash He's down with a Lidl Pulia Red (only £7 from Lidl)

Looking for resources to help optimize the use of medications in older adults? ➡️ Find our deprescribing.org guidelines and algorithms here: buff.ly/PoE6sPh ➡️ Find our Deprescribing Guidelines Repository (DEPOT) to remain up-to-date with new guidelines in development here: buff.ly/0wQL2fF

.#PharmacyTechnicians working in Great Britain in GP practice/PCNs please consider participating in this survey that @abbiestirling.bsky.social from @pcpa-uk.bsky.social is leading on. forms.gle/duA5Voff6eLV...

@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

How is everyone? What have I missed?! Here are my reads over the past 10 days. Any good reads suggestions welcome 📚 #BookSky #NothingBeatsAJet2Holiday

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-...

Any medicines optimisation pharmacists on here who could talk to me about antibiotic prescribing in children for @pharmaj.bsky.social

Juggling work & mum life over school summer holidays… lunchtime browse with Littlest K for some summertime reads from our charity shops. These were our finds! Given some beautiful old books a home and another chance to fuel imaginations #bookstack #booksky #schoolsout

Discontinuity of care was higher among younger adults, subgroups of males, urban residents, lower socioeconomic groups, those of "other" ethnicity, those who were unemployed, and patients with higher morbidity in this Danish cohort study doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... #PrimaryCare @trkristensen.bsky.social

Link 🔗 below @pharmrj.pharmsky.app #BIGHIKE

Notice of meeting: Society for Academic Primary Care Sexual and Reproductive Health Research Special Interest Group Date: Tuesday 8th July 2025 Time: 10-11am Venue: Orange/Calon 2 Holland House Hotel Cardiff (Conference Venue) #SAPC2025 #SAPC25 #AcademicSky #HIVSky #GPSky @sapc.ac.uk

No more training can be done now… Out of office will be switched on shortly. Here’s a few pics of my termite sized legs hiking. Bannau Brycheiniog looks reasonable for me & Helen Pinney. If you would like to donate to @cancerresearchuk.org fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/helens-... THX 😘

Well here it is 🦋… if you have managed to avoid seeing any news about this… 10-YEAR HEALTH PLAN FOR ENGLAND 🤓 assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/686638...

Yesterday I had the opportunity to present at #HEPS2025 in Dublin, sharing my PhD findings on how older people enact medication self-management behaviours during the hospital-to-home transition. It was great to be part of such a thoughtful space. Thank you to everyone who engaged with the session!

🎉 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

@dr-michael-n.bsky.social @bjgp.bsky.social paper Climate change & primary care:how to reduce the carbon footprint of your practice top 3 accessed papers of year so far bjgp.org/content/75/7... some great tips for GPs/practices #climatecrisis #primarycare @rcgp.bsky.social @bromleybybow.bsky.social

On my way to break my bestie @bpharmjiang.bsky.social out from @rpharms.com board meeting for some Asian food. #foodislife #sendnoods I am THAT friend that responds to your bat signal at any time.

If you are in any doubt why you’re working in General Practice and whether you should specialised in one clinical system. Read this. Choose Generalism. If it feels tough, you are learning and you’re likely keep that knowledge and skills for years to come. You have “desirable difficulties” #booksky

I've created a bluesky feed for #NHSConfedExpo which sorts by newest use of the hashtag, pin it to your feeds @nhsconfed.org

Great to see talk about #Pharmacists and #PharmacyTechnicians driving CVD Prevention in their communities #NHSConfedExpo @pcpa-uk.bsky.social @rpharms.com

🛌 Poor sleep affects your health, mood & energy. This #MensHealthWeek, take a step toward better sleep. Sleepio is a free, NHS-recommended app for adults in Scotland to improve sleep. Start now 👉 www.sleepio.com/nhs #BetterSleep #MensHealth

WINNER! I won a prize at Lucky Claw… I was ecstatic with this after several failed attempts. @bpharmjiang.bsky.social thinks many won’t know what this is! C’mon BlueSky prove him wrong… What did I win?!???

Our team continues to grow on here News, politics, court, crime, #LFC, #EFC, showbiz and What's On. It's all there Follow 👇 go.bsky.app/FrKFmeb

Sandwell - top locality for SMRs! Review of 2024/25 data Local variance - ??unwarranted Positive movement @clarehoward.bsky.social @formulazoeg.bsky.social @pharmrj.pharmsky.app #Polypharmacy

Let’s go! Sandwell locality - PCN led DES development day! Of course the boss just asked me to share our CVD Prevention PCN Plan 🫀👀

NHS England is funding 3,300 places on independent prescribing courses for pharmacists for 2025/26, it has announced.

PCN pharmacy lead Gareth Malson offers his top ten tips for supporting people with diabetes to improve control of their condition at regular review

It’s #Caturday Here’s Marvin Grey in a ramen instant pot catbed. As you do… 🍜 #skycats #CatsOfSky