Deprescribing is safe in older frail adults
They didn't see better outcomes in the deprescribed group but only minimal difference in actual ∆BP and they went very modest -- target population was those w sysBP < 130.
29.11.2025 14:55 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Great conversation with @janeshanahan.bsky.social about how useful pharmacy technicians are within the MDT and in care homes.
27.11.2025 16:40 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
So lucky to work in a team with an incredible group of gifted people #SMOCH team East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, I'm learning from them everyday and experts like you too Sundus 😍
If only we could all bottle our passion for supporting care homes & social care in general🏡
27.11.2025 16:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tomorrow's #TalkingMeds sees Jonathan Underhill chats to expert guests Sundus Jawad & Jane Shanahan about prescribing & medicines management in care homes & the national #FindYourEvelyn campaign.
find out more: https://www.prescqipp.info/our-resources/prescqipp-podcast-talking-meds/
27.11.2025 14:15 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 3
A Budget Impact Analysis conducted for adult patients using PPIs long-term inappropriately in England, UK 🇬🇧 found an estimated net savings of £11.5 million would be realized over a 5-year period if 20% of patients had their PPI stopped!
Read the full analysis here:
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24.11.2025 17:03 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
THIS THURSDAY: Join the next Int'l Deprescribing Journal club to hear Dr. McCarthy's presentation on the SPPiRE trial in Irish primary care settings, and what makes a successful deprescribing intervention for older adults with high levels of polypharmacy!
🔗 Register here: tinyurl.com/39seezfu
25.11.2025 16:26 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Anticholinergic medicines :: West Yorkshire Health & Care Partnership
Check out @wypartnership.bsky.social and @england.nhs.uk's new webpage on "Anticholinergic Medicines" and their risks below 👇
www.wypartnership.co.uk/our-prioriti...
Always great to see new resources promoting safe medication use in older adults!
22.11.2025 16:51 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Today, we’re launching our new campaign so that no older person faces this winter alone. We see this crisis, and we won’t accept it.
Let’s solve the crisis hiding in plain sight. Let's change how we age: https://bit.ly/4o1oqId
21.10.2025 10:36 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
Today we had a great day training our Pharmacy Technicians on the crucial task of calculating #anticholinergic
burden on the wards & discussed polypharmacy/ deprescribing & tomorrow we're proud to be connecting with #PharmacyTechnicians across the globe in New Zealand 🇳🇿 to learn from each other 🤝
21.11.2025 20:09 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Meeting President of RCP Edinburgh...
Signing the RCP scroll as a new fellow.
The main staircase with festive decorations.
One of the books at RCP Edinburgh library.
Officially FRCPEd ! Feeling very festive at the college ! @rcpedin.bsky.social
21.11.2025 18:13 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 0
Looking for ways to reduce anticholinergic burden and tools to talk about this topic with your patients?
The @england.nhs.uk launched a hub with many clinician + patient-facing resources (some of which were inspired by CADeN resources!) to support safer use of anticholinergics:
tinyurl.com/mr3adr6c
20.11.2025 18:14 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
🎉 Our Fall 2025 Newsletter is now out! 🎉
Learn all about our updates, including new resources, publications, & more:
buff.ly/Pi2BUmf
A heartfelt thanks to all of our team members, partners, & collaborators that helped to spread the word of #deprescribing over the past year! 👏
19.11.2025 17:02 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
💊 Join us for the next Overprescribing Community of Practice.
Hear from India Cannon, Primary Care Clinical Pharmacist, Cumbria Health, and colleagues across the ICB as they share success stories, best practice tips, and lessons learned in tackling anticholinergic burden.
Register: bit.ly/43G0yBX
19.11.2025 14:37 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
In tomorrow's episode of #TalkingMeds @jonathanunderhill.pharmsky.app talks to @formulazoeg.bsky.social about 'Prescribing Hot Topics' - including recent @nicecomms.bsky.social and @mhragovuk.bsky.social changes.
Find out more and listen here: www.prescqipp.info/our-resource...
13.11.2025 10:35 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Great to see our new paper out in print. Community-acquired pneumonia is both ab acute and a long-term issue. Failure to identify the pathogen, failure to understand the pathobiology and failure to grasp the long-term consequences have all contributed to the limited improvements in outcome to date.
16.11.2025 00:41 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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 NPA
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).
05.11.2025 17:15 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
The Quiet Power of Friendship: A Reflection for Book Week Scotland 2025
This week’s #podcast explores the importance of #reading in #olderage and considers the topic of #friendship which is the theme of this year’s #BookWeekScotland 2025. open.spotify.com/episode/0dmu...
15.11.2025 08:21 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
In a new JCP article and podcast episode, Drs. Nicolas Badre and Eric Geier present a practical #anticholinergic equivalence table to help clinicians assess and minimize psychotropic anticholinergic burden.
🎧 Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
📰 Article: journals.lww.com/psychopharma...
12.11.2025 15:23 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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29.04.2025 17:17 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
A Delirium (UK) James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership - Wolfson Institute of Population Health
Delighted to share details of @nihr.bsky.social James Lind Alliance research priority setting survey for delirium. For completion by UK health/social professionals and those with personal experience of delirium.
Complete the survey and have your say. More details 👇
www.qmul.ac.uk/wiph/centres...
11.11.2025 23:32 — 👍 13 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 10
💊 5 Tips to Manage Polypharmacy:
A toolkit co-developed by Canada’s Drug Agency, @ismpcanada.bsky.social & @deprescribing.bsky.social to help primary care providers identify and address polypharmacy with their patients.
Download the toolkit here:
www.cda-amc.ca/appropriate-...
12.11.2025 14:54 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Drum roll!! This is a very special document and will CHANGE PRACTICE www.bgs.org.uk/PragmaticPre...
12.11.2025 14:57 — 👍 12 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
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