Rebecca Mills

Foundation trainees This collection of resources has been created to support your preparation for the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) registration assessment as you take the final step towards your future pharmacy…

This collection of resources has been created to support your preparation for the General Pharmaceutical Council (#GPhC) registration assessment as you take the final step towards your future pharmacy career

#GPhCassessment #pharmacycareer #pharmacyexam

🚨 Talking to patients about #Antibiotics

Patient handout: When Are Oral Antibiotics the Right Choice? ti.ubc.ca/antibiotics-...

👉🏼See also our TI Letter 155: ti.ubc.ca/Letter155

#PatientEducation #MedEd #prescribing

The association between STOPPFall medication use and falls and fractures in community-dwelling older people AbstractIntroduction. Falls and fractures are common among older people. The Screening Tool of Older Persons Prescriptions in older adults with high fall r

Prescription of 2 or more STOPPFall medications is independently associated with all falls, injurious and unexplained falls, all fractures and hip fractures. Review these meds! academic.oup.com/ageing/artic...

Eid Mubarak!

Wishing everyone celebrating a happy Eid al-Adha.

#EidMubarak #EidAlAdha #RPSIandD

Medicines shortages are putting increasing pressure on pharmacy teams and impacting patient care. Our recent report highlights key areas for action to strengthen the UK’s response.

More: rpharms.com/medicinessho...

Was the Black Lives Matter rebellion all for nothing? It may feel like that, but I have seen reasons for hope | Jason Okundaye It is easy to look back at 2020 and feel aggrieved, even fooled. But in the British city where slaver Edward Colston’s statue was pulled down, I found cause for optimism, says Guardian writer Jason Ok...

Insightful piece from Jason Okundaye on the 5th anniversary of George Floyd’s death.
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The Royal Pharmaceutical Society is seeking a new Editor-in-Chief for RPS Pharmacy and Pharmacology Reports - click below for more details 👇

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Pharmacists included in latest cohort of NIHR senior investigators The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has named three pharmacists in its latest cohort of senior investigators. David Alldred, professor of medicines use and safety at the…

The National Institute for Health and Care Research has named three pharmacists — #DavidAlldred, #RachelElliott & #IanMaidment — in its latest cohort of senior investigators

#NIHR #pharmacyresearch

Have you experienced a situation where you had to balance conflicting interests or felt unsure about the best way forward? Were you faced with a dilemma where risks and benefits were hard to balance?

If you are interested in sharing your experience with us, please get in touch! 👇
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Would be interesting to look at how many have maintained skills and therefore how prepared we may be for the future….

Series 2, Episode 10: Fran Ives on Human Factors. Being Better, Together · Episode

🎧 Looking for some Friday afternoon listening? Look no further!

Listen to Fran Ives talking about her unique role in the NHS as a Human Factors Specialist at HIWM, on the Being Better, Together Learning from Excellence and @civilitysaves.bsky.social podcast.

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New Oxford women researchers’ network launched | NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre

ASCEND, a new network has been launched to support women and gender non-conforming researchers and staff in mid- and senior-level positions to grow as research leaders oxfordbrc.nihr.ac.uk/new-oxford-w...

#InternationalWomensDay #IWD2025

@nihr.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk

TWO NEW NIHR POSTDOC RESEARCH POSTS
with myself and @rohinimathur.bsky.social at QMUL,
@qmul-wiph.bsky.social about Safety of Medicines in Pregnancy to develop novel tools to improve decision making @nihr.bsky.social

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Our Band 6 roles are out! If you’d like to kick start your career in a supportive department focussed on delivering compassionate excellence, take a look! www.ouh.nhs.uk/working-for-...

Can you guess what she is? (admittedly not a character) #WorldBookDay

If leaders are serious about ending war, women need a seat at the table.

Global data, 1989-2011: When women are involved in agreements, peace is 35% more likely to last 15+ years.

Men alone shouldn’t decide the fate of nations. Gender balance is especially vital with high stakes and hot tempers.

Pharmacy technical services: what it involves and who can work in this area Pharmacy technical services include aseptic dispensing and preparation, production, radiopharmacy and quality assurance and control. Jennifer Richardson finds out why the role is so vital and…

*Pharmacy technical services: what it involves and who can work in this area*

Pharmacy technical services include #asepticdispensing and preparation, production, #radiopharmacy and quality assurance. Here, #JenniferRichardson finds out why the role is so vital and rewarding

Could we exchange pollution for people in #Oxford too? How would you make it happen?

Wow! Incredible.

Campaign to give NHS pharmacists mandated protected learning time launched by the Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists The Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists (GHP) has launched a campaign calling for pharmacists working in the NHS to have a minimum of 10% of their contracted hours protected for supporting professional…

The Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists is calling for pharmacists working in the NHS to have a minimum of 10% of their contracted hours protected for supporting professional activities
#ukpharmacy #protectedlearningtime

“I’m delighted to have reached this milestone of sharing the proposed changes to our Royal Charter and more clearly setting out the path to become a royal college, ahead of an all-member vote.”

Explore the proposed changes in full:

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I care deeply that people are able to be accepted for being themselves. There is still so much discrimination to eliminate.

This image below says it all.

#DiversityandInclusion #Pride

Advancing medication compounding: Use of a pharmaceutical 3D printer to auto-fill minoxidil capsules for dispensing to patients in a community pharmacy Compounding medications in pharmacies is a common practice for patients with prescriptions that are not available commercially, but it is a laborious …

🧪 #Paper: "Advancing medication compounding: Use of a pharmaceutical 3D printer to auto-fill minoxidil capsules for dispensing to patients in a community pharmacy."

🤝 Collaboration: iMATUS_USC, UCL & @FabRx

🔗https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378517325000870?via%3Dihub

#Pharmasky

A list of race-related microaggressions

This Race Equality Week, learn what race related microaggressions look like, how to tackle them and use positive micro-affirmations with our microaggression resource.

You can also download posters to display in your workplace: bit.ly/3TXtX5D #EveryActionCounts #RPSIandD

Inhaler return to pharmacies part of updated NHS Green plan guidance Patients should be encouraged to return used or expired inhalers to community pharmacies for appropriate disposal, as part of “key actions” identified in updated NHS England ‘Green plan guidance’.…

Patients are encouraged to return used or expired inhalers to community pharmacies under NHS England ‘Green plan guidance’
#ukpharmacy #inhalers #NHS

Low Value Prescribing - a dashboard on OpenPrescribing | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science Here we describe how to access and use the Low Value Prescribing dashboard on OpenPrescribing.

NHS Priorities for 25/26 are out now...

A (welcome?) return for "Low Priority Prescribing"

Not sure where to start?

We have built OpenPrescribing dashboards to review prescribing in your practice, PCN, ICB or region

More on our blog!

www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...

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

Day 2 Race Equality Week Challenge: Recognising #Privilege

Everyone has a privilege and today's challenge is to identify an action so that your personal privilege can be better utilised to voice impactful change

#EveryActionCounts #PharmacyTechnicians #PhamSky @aptuk.bsky.social

The highest compliment from someone who disagrees with you is not “You were right.” It’s “You made me think.”

Good arguments help us recognize complexity where we once saw simplicity.

The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It’s to promote critical thinking.

It’s #CervicalCancer Prevention Week

This is a cancer found anywhere in the cervix. It's most common in women aged between 30 - 35, but it can happen at any age

The HPV vaccine & cervical screening can help prevent it, so it’s important you attend yr appt

www.nhs.uk/conditions/cervical-cancer/