Breaking news: The government has launched a public consultation on its proposals to give pharmacists the power to supply a different strength, formulation or quantity of a prescription medicine when it is unavailable.
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I encourage anyone who is involved in UK healthcare as a provider or a recipient to complete this consultation. Pharmacists have been calling for this for years.
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Well that's odd. 24 hours ago The Westmorland Gazette posted a story about swimmers getting sick while taking part in the Great North Swim on Windermere. Apparently sewage was being dumped into the lake at the time.
1 day later the article has disappeared from their website.
I'm sure there's a perfectly innocent explanation. ๐ค
The crisis we face is because of our failure to meet the needs of young people taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025โฆ Our young people are alienated by an economy that is very obviously set up to exclude them from hope. What are we going to do about that?
โ๏ธ | We have written an open letter to the GMC over the recent publication of good practice advice for doctors who supervise and work with physician associates and anaesthesia associates
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Happy #IWD2025 to all. But until every women is free from the patriarchy we donโt stop fighting. Especially thinking of the women and girls in Afghanistan today living under #genderapartheid. #AccelerateAction
Did you know women were nearly invisible in early statin trials?
Discover why cardiovascular research has been failing half the population!
open.spotify.com/episode/42Wโฆ
apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/Jโฆ Any Pharmacists looking to work on our study in Dundee? Taking outreach care to people experiencing homelessness and multiple disadvantage. Pharmacy friends please share. Correct link this time. ๐
A thematic analysis of the prevention of future deaths reports in healthcare from HM coroners in England and Wales 2016โ2019
acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaiโฆ via @alisonleary1 et al
I doubt #bbcqt, #PoliticsLive, or ANY @BBC show will ever mention this, DESPITE the @BBC's Mission being "to act in the public interest", & one of its Public Purposes being to "provide impartial news & information to help people understand & engage with the world around them". ๐ง
#THREAD
The well documented connections between Nigel Farage, the US & UK Christian right (including his billionaire employer at GB "News", Paul Marshall) & #TuftonSt lobbyists are deeply concerning.
Despite his '@BBC boycott', Farage is on #bbcqt next week, FOR THE 37TH TIME.
Our politicians need to wake up and listen because this is a life or death matter for tens of thousands of patients, being raised by the most senior A&E doctor in the country. @UKLabour, wake up and start listening to @RCollEM now.
#SOSNHS
ALT A photo of Dr Adrian Boyle, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, with the quote from him this week: โYet again, we have no plan, no change and no commitment to resuscitate Urgent and Emergency Care - the service which continues to be the canary in the healthcare coalmine.โ
Over 60 MPs from eight parties have now backed my Parliamentary motion calling for sanctions on Israel.
Israel is carrying out war crime after war crime.
Our Government must impose widespread sanctions on Israel to force it to stop.