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Graham Stretch

@grahamstretch.pharmsky.app

Pharmacist▫️President @PCPA_org▫️Chief Pharmacist-Partner Argyle GP▫️Lead Pharmacist, Care Homes, ECP▫️E&T▫️Research▫️PhD MAPharmT FRPharmS▫️🚴🏻‍♂️ #PharmSky

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Motherfucking wind farms…

30.07.2025 17:02 — 👍 46070    🔁 17379    💬 1148    📌 2307
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🎉 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

02.07.2025 15:15 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Delighted to complete final DPP sign off for local Community Pharmacist Petya Bletsova today for her IP ✍🏻 ⭐

Petya bought donuts 🍩 for everyone- forgetting the 12 trainees are off for their exam tomorrow, luckily teenage boys at home will ensure no wastage - & me, GPs & nurses etc

23.06.2025 19:39 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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❗️MPharm3 Students - ORIEL Deadline Wed 18th June - Register Now❗️

And of course - preference our unique 4️⃣ sector award winning training program, entering our 13th year - search ‘Argyle’

DPP in all four sectors

GP - Hospital - Care Home - Community

www.oriel.nhs.uk/Web/Home

17.06.2025 19:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Today ✅Foundation sign off & ✍🏻 Nurse / Pharmacist prescribing training

Final sign off for foundation trainees Tarq & Arshida - thanks to Jade Pharmacy for further community / GP / Care Home collaborations

Also Linda, Petya & Mericia nurse ACP & community pharmacist IP prescribing training

09.06.2025 18:47 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Deprescribing Electronic Decision Support for Adults Living in Long-Term Care This stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial of long-term care home residents assesses the efficacy of an evidence-based electronic decision support tool for deprescribing potentially inappropriate med...

More evidence that structured approaches to drug management reduces the medicines 'burden' on individuals

"our intervention nudged prescribers to regularly reassess [potentially inappropriate medications], which is important as people age and goals of care shift"

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

03.06.2025 21:34 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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💡 I’m delighted to be chairing & speaking at the inaugural GP Pharmacy Virtual Event

💻 24 June

🤝 Fantastic line-up of Speakers

📃 Agenda: events.cogora.com/gp-pharmacy-...

Join us!

@thepharmacistnews.bsky.social

03.06.2025 18:54 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Part of my postdoc was on Olive 🫒 Oil’s health giving properties so I’d happily collaborate - who wants to sponsor our work?

@cathedralcity.bsky.social ?

31.05.2025 16:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I feel cheese has a great benefit vs risk ratio

- indeed should we be able to prescribe cheese in preference to MAOIs for mood disorders - are there head to head clinical trials? Although blinding a Gorgonzola vs Phenelzine trial would be a challenge

(Checked openprescribing 373 items 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 March 25)

31.05.2025 09:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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19. The importance of generalism in pharmacy with Helen Kilminster Talking Meds - A PrescQIPP podcast · Episode

Listen to @pcpa-uk.bsky.social's very own @hpillminster.pharmsky.app on the @prescqipp.info Talking Meds Podcast with @jonathanunderhill.pharmsky.app here➡️ pcpa.co/HelenPOD #PharmSky #MedSky

30.05.2025 07:19 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Managing to keep
mine under 6 figures for a while now with tenacity and long hours…

27.05.2025 22:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Congratulations 🎉and thanks to @hfxamanda.bsky.social on 30 years NHS service at Heath Pharmacy, Halifax - mind boggling to think of the hundreds of thousands of consultations, prescriptions & patient interactions you must of had during that time 😮
@pcpa-uk.bsky.social @lauraangus.pharmsky.app

24.05.2025 09:15 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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The venues for the GPhC @gphc.bsky.social registration assessment and further details have been released www.pharmacyregulation.org/students-and...

19.05.2025 22:42 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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If your project's improved medicines optimisation for older people, you could win a #PrescQIPP2025 Award.

Enter the 'Care homes/domiciliary care/carer medicines optimisation' category: www.prescqipp.info/community-re...

@grahamstretch.pharmsky.app @coachingchemist.pharmsky.app @pcpa-uk.bsky.social

15.05.2025 14:57 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Hero of mine, Ealing boy. Went to my eldest school. (More accurately Acton) Very jealous

11.05.2025 19:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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My commitment to equity:

Through education & proactive patient care, I aim to foster a culture of awareness & equity in pain management. By promoting regular patient reviews, we can help close the gender pain gap & provide compassionate, unbiased care.

www.hcp.nurofen.co.uk/static/see-m...

11.05.2025 07:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Gender inequalities exist in pain management arising from unconscious biases amongst health care professionals - the ‘gender pain gap’

youtu.be/v4O27X2pAyQ?...

With thanks to Reckitt for the opportunity to explore and highlight this under recognised area

🧵 1/2👇🏻

11.05.2025 07:58 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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I have hair back

10.05.2025 14:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Can confirm

08.05.2025 20:10 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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

08.05.2025 18:18 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Great to see this sign at King’s Cross has gone fully multi - lingual and is welcoming folks from Yorkshire like @laulok.bsky.social @lauraangus.pharmsky.app @hadeelmohamed.bsky.social @suealldred.bsky.social

08.05.2025 11:10 — 👍 15    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0
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How can we optimise our primary care workforce?

Opening keynote panel- at Primary Care Partnership Network (PCPN)

Looking forward to participating in morning pcpn-uk.com/agenda/2025/

@fhussain73.bsky.social Sonia Kumar @victoriatb.bsky.social Rachel Power Estefania Costa @pcpa-uk.bsky.social

07.05.2025 20:02 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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I think I missed my vocation

06.05.2025 22:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@hpillminster.pharmsky.app you have to find Jammy Dodger kits

06.05.2025 07:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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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

17.04.2025 14:34 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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In praise of training (and trainees)….

Everyone in these photos is a trainee (bar a couple of consented patients)- undergrad, foundation trainee, foundation, PCPEP, IP, ACP, DPP or PhD

Many have trained with me over last 15 years and how am I doing 39 week & GPhC assessment entry forms already?

02.04.2025 07:31 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Eid Mubarak to all members, friends & colleagues celebrating - warmest wishes from all at PCPA

#EidAlFitr #EidAlFitr2025 #Eid2025 #EidMubarak  #Eidmubarak2025 #EidUlFitr #EidulFitr2025

30.03.2025 12:39 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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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

30.03.2025 13:27 — 👍 18    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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All the essential food groups there @pharmrj.pharmsky.app

Do ribs and wedges count? #pharmfoods

23.03.2025 09:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It’s tyranny I tell you

22.03.2025 19:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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