Samantha Quaye

A London-based, interactive workshop on cultural competence in #Pharmacy
Tue 18 Nov 5-8pm

All members of the team welcome. Spaces are limited, please sign up via Eventbrite (details in post below)

#PharmSky

Happy Halloween! 🎃

#AMS #Halloween #Antibiotics #Pharmacy #PharmacyNerd

Talking About The Traitors: What can watching tell us about group think/game theory/prisoners dilemma/group decision making? Buckle up, this is a long one, but I hope you’ll enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Many moons ago, I did an A-level in psychology. I enjoyed it so much that I even took some m…

The Traitors is back on our screens for exciting episodes, of what Mr Girlymicro refers to as 'Confirmation Bias Castle',

I thought I would share a blog I wrote discussing what the series can tell us about the benefits and pitfalls of group decision making

girlymicrobiologist.com/2025/01/27/t...

The Dean received a standing ovation from the congregation for his sermon this morning

Last night I had the privilege to hear Justice Ketanji Brown Johnson in dialogue with Afua Hirsh

Perseverance
Positivity
Progress

These are words that remained central as "The Lovely One" described her journey from Harvard, to becoming the first Black Woman to a US Supreme Court Justice

A hand-drawn illustration of a large pink jar with a red lid, labelled “SMALL WINS MATTER” in the centre. Around it are cheerful yellow tags reading: “I gave myself time!”, “I went for a walk!”, “I got up early today!”, “I laughed a lot!”, and “I made the bed!”. The background is light cream with scattered pink dots and hearts. Illustrated by @joyfulsmolthings.

“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realise they were the big things.” Robert Brault

We can get caught up in the busyness. Some days can feel a lot. Some moments can feel endless.

There are always small wins to notice.

🧡

#kindness #gratitude Art by joyfulsmolthings

Image of Alaine Rasay, #BoneMarrow Transplant Co-Ordinator Clinical Nurse Specialist at King's.

🩸 #BloodCancerAwarenessMonth with Alaine Rasay, #BoneMarrow Transplant Co-Ordinator Clinical Nurse Specialist at King's:

💬 "I help coordinate and support patients through complex treatments. I’m passionate about ensuring no one faces their blood cancer journey alone."

#TeamKings #CNS #BCAM2025

Brilliant day at London's Community #Pharmacy EDI Conference

Topics included:
🔹Exploring health inequalities & WF diversity gaps
🔹Culturally competent contraception services
🔹Maternal health equity
🔹Vaccine hesitancy
🔹Men’s mental health & suicide prevention
🔹 BP check outreach work

#PharmSky

🌟 Great to see the publication of this important research on medicines and breastfeeding by @swpharmres.bsky.social member Rachel Pilgrim.

📑 You can read the full paper here
internationalbreastfeedingjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

#PharmSky #PharmacyResearch

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

September is Suicide Prevention Month

There is always another way through difficult times

If you are struggling, please talk to someone...an independent person or a person you know & trust, who is there to listen 💚

Immunisations: A Safety Essential for Every Newborn and Child To mark World Patient Safety Day, this interactive session, hosted by the Association of British Paediatric Nurses, will explore the role of childhood immunisations as a cornerstone of safe care for n...

Upcoming #WorldPatientSafetyDay webinar featured on the hub today:

▶️Immunisations: A Safety Essential for Every Newborn and Child (hosted by Association of British Paediatric Nurses)
🗓️Wednesday 17 September 2025
⏰16.00-17.00 BST

More details below⬇️
www.pslhub.org/events/event... #patientsafety

Open access: Safe Staffing Standards for Pharmacy Technicians in Hospital Settings

Take a look at this recently published paper 👇

www.mdpi.com/2001-6689/13...

#PharmSky #pharmacy #PharmacyTechnicians

Brilliant #Pharmacy SAHM event in Leicester tonight

It was a privilege to hear the personal stories of all the speakers

Loved hearing @ptocgroup.bsky.social member, Neelam Sharma, perform her S Asian inspired poetry

Misogyny is shaping how young people see relationships, sex, and each other.

Sex education must tackle it head-on. We support age-appropriate, evidence-based guidance.

Read our latest blog and comments from CEO Penny East: www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/blog/sex-ed-...

#SexEdReform #EndMisogyny

🚨 Senior NHS managers are to be regulated by the @hcpc.bsky.social with a barring list to prevent those guilty of misconduct from working again in the NHS. @wesstreeting says this "will slam the door in the face of unsuitable managers"

It's South Asian Heritage Month

The theme for 2025 is #RootsToRoutes

We stand on the shoulders of giants and honour those who came before us because they are the reason we are able to look out and see all the possibilities now open to us

#SAHM2025 #SouthAsianHeritageMonth

20 things that women should stop wearing after the age of 30.

1-20: The weight of other people's expectations and judgments.

Thank you for your leadership.

Your time as our President has included such immense change and you are leaving a notable legacy for our profession.

Wishing you well for your next chapter.

Calculating the Damage of Vaccine Skepticism It’s clear that we’re on the precipice of a surge in preventable diseases. But how bad will it get?

“Even now, one in eight children under the age of five in Nigeria dies from vaccine-preventable diseases, but it used to be considerably worse.”

#MedSky #PedSky #PublicHealth 🧪

Measures and tools assessing medication self-management capability in older people across the hospital-to-home transition: a systematic scoping review - BMC Geriatrics Background Adverse drug events from medication-related harm (MRH) can lead to hospital readmissions, compromised quality of life, and even death. Post-hospital discharge is a vulnerable period for old...

🤩First publication from my PhD "Measures and tools assessing medication self-management capability in older people across the hospital-to-home transition: a systematic scoping review" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Huge thank you to my supervisors and co-authors for your support & encouragement❤️

This is all kinds of wrong...but I am curious 🍓🍰🥪

Picard management tip: Your knowledge is a wellspring from which to draw for others, not a treasure to hoard for yourself.

Blog on #MentalHealth First Aid, for the RPS

✅ It starts with you— willingness to reflect, to learn, and to create safe spaces
✅ Cultural competence means being curious, not cautious
✅ It means asking, not assuming

You don’t need to have all the answers but be kind

📝 Read the blog bit.ly/45a3w3e

#WindrushDay

‘He just told me lies to have sex with a teenage girl’: Natalie Fleet MP on grooming, statutory rape and fighting back At 15, she began seeing an older man and conceived her beloved daughter. It was years before she properly understood it as abuse. Now she is working tirelessly in parliament for other survivors

Powerful read in @theguardian.com

This struck me

“And shame really does need to switch sides.”

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Rectangular driftwood vertical post inlaid with circles containing coloured stained glass, tbe sculpture is sited on a shoreline next to the sea at dawn, under a goldon sky in twilight

Louise Durham creates driftwood and glass sculptures #WomensArt

#Solstice Northern & Southern hemispheres

How are you feeling today?

Use the colours below to complete a #MentalHealth check in 🧡

#Wellbeing

Not an optional extra: The price of not tackling race discrimination in the NHS www.rogerkline.co.uk/post/not-an-...