Lucy Potter

Helping people to live and survive co-use of benzodiazepines/z-drugs and opioids: the importance of asking how and why people co-use - Drug Research Network Scotland Helping people to live and survive co-use of benzodiazepines/z-drugs and opioids: the importance of asking how and why people co-use Gabriele Vojt, Joanna Kesten, Jennifer Scott, Hannah Family, on beh...

Helping people to live and survive co-use of benzodiazepines / z-drugs and opioids: the importance of asking how and why people co-use: a new @drnscot.bsky.social blog by Gabriele Vojt, @jokesten.bsky.social Jennifer Scott @hannah-family.bsky.social
#HarmReduction
drns.ac.uk/benzo-blog/

🚨Just one week to go till our next webinar🚨on:

'Improving mental health in primary care: novel psychological and pharmacological interventions'.

Details below. ⬇️

See you there! 😊

@nihrspcr.bsky.social @sapc.ac.uk @bnssgresearch.bsky.social @bristolhealthp.bsky.social @onecaregpfed.bsky.social

🩺Today is the FIRST #NHS Domestic Abuse Awareness Day (10 December).🩺

👩‍⚕️This important initiative acknowledges the high rates of DA among healthcare professionals & the support they need.

Research by Sandi Dheensa & colleagues has informed the campaign.

👉 tinyurl.com/2nwu758s

#NHSDAAD #16Days

Training on grief and bereavement in #primarycare #CPD

FREE resource for workplaces to become safe spaces for those experience #domesticviolence and #sexualviolence. Great videos!

"One question, examining the human cost, should guide us: does a collaboration risk complicity in genocide or crimes against humanity?" www.bmj.com/content/391/... Medicine’s reckoning with genocide and crimes against humanity

❓ What has ARC West achieved since it formed 6 years ago?
👉 Follow #6YearsOfARCWest to find out…

In the last 6 years, we have:
👨‍⚕️ Carried out 202 projects
📓 Published 596 papers

👉 Read more: arc-w.nihr.ac.uk/six-years-of...
#ARCimpacts

Such a supportive group and event, thank you @nihrspcr.bsky.social!

How can this not be our business? The impact of the arms trade on health

Miltary equipment on display at an international arms fair. Text overlay: 'Harms industry'. Caption: The BMJ Series on the arms industry and health. bmj.com/collections/arms-industry-health.

Experts urge the medical profession to confront the global arms industry.

In a new @bmj.com series uncovering the role of the arms trade in health, Mark Bellis, Gene Feder & colleagues call for greater scrutiny of its health-harming activities & relationship with governments.

tinyurl.com/yc5mu9xb

looking forward to this!

"Team Harm Reduction is a great example of what can happen when science, lived experience, and compassion come together."- inspiring stuff!

The part we can (should) play in General Practice in responding to violence against women and girls- a useful summary of what we know and can do ⬇️

Survey header with University of Bristol logo. Have your say to improve the care of people aged over 50 living with HIV in the UK We are looking for research ideas to improve health and care for people aged over 50 living with HIV in the UK. This is a survey for people with HIV aged over 50, their carers, and healthcare professionals involved in their care.

Are you a healthcare professional in the UK caring for people living with HIV aged over 50?

What are the important issues for you & your patients?

We are creating a bank of research questions to bring to a workshop to prioritise research in this area.

app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/socs/have-...

📣 Calling all UK undergraduate medical students! Win a funded place at the @sapc.ac.uk Annual Scientific Meeting by entering the @nihrspcr.bsky.social George Lewith competition! 🎓 🔗 Find out more: https://www.spcr.nihr.ac.uk/career-development/GL 🗓️ Deadline: 12noon, 25 April 2025 #medicalstudents #PrimaryCare

📣 Calling all UK undergraduate medical students! Win a funded place at the @sapc.ac.uk Annual Scientific Meeting by entering the @nihrspcr.bsky.social George Lewith competition! 🎓

🔗 Find out more: www.spcr.nihr.ac.uk/career-devel...
🗓️ Deadline: 12noon, 25 April 2025

#medicalstudents #PrimaryCare

Excellent! Would love to hear/ talk more!

An infographic on homelessness

People experiencing homelessness have high mortality and morbidity from preventable or treatable conditions.

This article explores the health impacts of homelessness and practical considerations for clinicians providing care.

Includes an infographic
www.bmj.com/content/388/...

We are learning the wrong lessons from lockdown And unless we learn the right ones, we risk making the same mistakes in a new pandemic

Lockdowns are terrible. So are deadly pandemics. @chrischirp.bsky.social tells it straight.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/we-are-lea...

That’s great news. Thank you so much! ❤️

Thank you! Great to still be able to present despite sickness. Missing out on the buzz though!

Thank you! Let’s disrupt 😁
Glad I could still make it in some form and that I wasn’t sick on screen!

Great plenary from @drlucypotter.bsky.social at #swsapc2025oxford
Really eye opening on the barriers faced by people with severe and multiple disadvantages, and more importantly, what changes can improve access.

Thank you! So glad it worked and sorry about the miscommunication- heroic offer of a last minute stand in!

Hello,
Do you know if I can still have my slot? Happy to do online live or do a recording. Not getting any response from SW SAPC email. Thanks

I was hoping to still present (sending recording or live remote) but waiting to hear back?

I suspect this particular contribution may not be welcome!

I should be but have been up all night vomiting 🫠

“Improve opportunities for prevention by improving access to primary care for people in inclusion health groups”- great to connect with others at @pathwayuk.bsky.social also striving for this #InclusionHealth2025

Agree! @jscottuob.bsky.social did you do some work on naloxone in pharmacies or vending machines?? Or did I dream this?!!

Great presentation from you both thank you. Housing first must include good support!