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College of Mental Health Pharmacy @cmhpcommunity.pharmsky.app · Dec 5

Check out the award winning abstracts presented at the 14th International @cmhpcommunity.bsky.social conference in Glasgow, UK, on 11th and 12th October 2024 published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Alison Strath @alisonstrath.bsky.social · Nov 25

What you permit, you promote

Alison Strath @alisonstrath.bsky.social · Nov 25

Similar thing happened to me. An edit function would be most helpful!

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · Nov 22

New Lancet paper 'The cost of not investing in the first 1000 days'.

Cites our Cochrane review on preschool-based feeding programmes in socio-economically deprived settings.

FEED STARVING CHILDREN in a timely way. Later (when they're older) may be too late.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 🧪

The cost of not investing in the next 1000 days: implications for policy and practice

Building on the evidence from the first paper in this Series highlighting the fundamental importance of healthy and nurturing environments for children's growth and development in the next 1000 days (...

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Karen Shuker @karenpharm.bsky.social · Nov 22

For pharmacists interested in credentialing as an advanced mental health pharmacist check out the joint RPS @cmhpcommunity.bsky.social webinar #PharmSky

www.rpharms.com/resources/we...

Advanced Pharmacist Mental Health Curriculum

This follow-on webinar will cover specifics and practicalities for candidates who are undertaking the mental health or critical care curricula

www.rpharms.com

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Alison Strath @alisonstrath.bsky.social · Nov 22

My UK chief pharmaceutical officers colleagues & I have provided advice to help pharmacy professionals wanting to take part in the debate on assisted dying. This follows similar advice recently issued to doctors and nurses: www.gov.uk/government/p...

Assisted dying bill debate: advice to pharmacy professionals

The UK chief pharmaceutical officers have given advice to help pharmacists and pharmacy technicians wanting to take part in the assisted dying debate.

www.gov.uk

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Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social · Nov 21

The world has already eradicated smallpox. Polio is the next disease we could eradicate.

Here's how we got to where we are now, mostly thanks to the polio vaccine.

From our work on Polio:
ourworldindata.org/polio

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Nov 21

The expansion of GLP-1 drug efficacy evidence in 2024, a concise review by Daniel Drucker, a pioneer of the field nature.com/articles/s41...

Expanding applications of therapies based on GLP1 - Nature Reviews Endocrinology

The evidence base in support of the use of medicines based on glucagon-like peptide 1 beyond glucose control and weight loss was substantially bolstered in 2024, as clinical trial data report benefits...

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Chris Banks @banks.ac · Nov 21

Finally! 🎉
Our last paper on the early dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron outbreak in Scotland is now published in Epidemics!

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ep...

#SARSCoV2 #Omicron #PublicHealth #IDSky #EpiSky

Modelling plausible scenarios for the Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant from early-stage surveillance. Epidemics 2024.

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Chris Banks @banks.ac · Nov 21

For me the best key insight of this paper was that we could take an existing large and complex model and fit it, using relatively simple means, to a new and emerging situation. It worked well and gave rapid insight into the emerging variant outbreak.

#IDModelling

Chris Banks @banks.ac · Nov 21

Finally! 🎉
Our last paper on the early dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron outbreak in Scotland is now published in Epidemics!

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ep...

#SARSCoV2 #Omicron #PublicHealth #IDSky #EpiSky

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Stephan Geering @stephangeering.bsky.social · Nov 21

Great advice on public speaking

Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · Nov 21

There are many ways to give a terrible speech. The chief executive who pulls out a sheaf of densely written text and robotically reads it aloud. The management consultant whose every word competes with a jargon-filled tangle of meaningless diagrams and bullet points.
timharford.com/2024/11/how-...

How to give a good speech

There are many ways to give a terrible speech. The chief executive who pulls out a sheaf of densely written text and robotically reads it aloud. The management

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Clare Morrison @clareupnorth.bsky.social · Nov 16

This week we published a report about what the public in Scotland want from #NHS reform and how they want to be involved in decisions about their healthcare:
www.hisengage.scot/informing-po...

#HealthcareImprovementScotland

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Alison Strath @alisonstrath.bsky.social · Nov 17

I decided to use my first post to promote the beautiful #Kimono exhibition at the #Dundee V&A

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Alison Strath @alisonstrath.bsky.social · Nov 17

Many congratulations!

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