Efi Mantzourani
@efimantz.bsky.social
Academic Pharmacist | Professor of Pharmacy Practice | Evidenced-based development, implementation and evaluation of pharmacy infection services | Moved to UK 20 years ago | Still miss the sunshine!
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Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system!
Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.
Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.
September 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system!
Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.
Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.
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Read all about it! Our fantastic Efi Mantzourani gave a talk about transition of care at the FIP World Conference of Pharmacy in Copenhagen.
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Transitions of Care presentation at Pharmaceutical Sciences Conference
Professor Efi Mantzourani speaks about successful service at conference.
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September 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Read all about it! Our fantastic Efi Mantzourani gave a talk about transition of care at the FIP World Conference of Pharmacy in Copenhagen.
www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/29...
www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/29...
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When journalism was cool. And risked everything to challenge power.
September 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
When journalism was cool. And risked everything to challenge power.
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In case you missed it ...
💥 This is the type of speech Starmer could have given on immigration. But unlike the Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez, Starmer doesn't seem to feel any sense of duty, protection, or thanks towards the foreigners in the UK who are holding this country together.
#NotStrangers
💥 This is the type of speech Starmer could have given on immigration. But unlike the Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez, Starmer doesn't seem to feel any sense of duty, protection, or thanks towards the foreigners in the UK who are holding this country together.
#NotStrangers
May 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
In case you missed it ...
💥 This is the type of speech Starmer could have given on immigration. But unlike the Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez, Starmer doesn't seem to feel any sense of duty, protection, or thanks towards the foreigners in the UK who are holding this country together.
#NotStrangers
💥 This is the type of speech Starmer could have given on immigration. But unlike the Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez, Starmer doesn't seem to feel any sense of duty, protection, or thanks towards the foreigners in the UK who are holding this country together.
#NotStrangers
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Trump administration considers suspending habeas corpus.
This would deny people the legal right to challenge one’s detention.
Arbitrary detention of opponents would be normalised.
No different from dictatorships.
Rule of law? Respect for human rights?
This would deny people the legal right to challenge one’s detention.
Arbitrary detention of opponents would be normalised.
No different from dictatorships.
Rule of law? Respect for human rights?
Trump administration considering suspending habeas corpus
The White House is
www.bbc.co.uk
May 11, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Trump administration considers suspending habeas corpus.
This would deny people the legal right to challenge one’s detention.
Arbitrary detention of opponents would be normalised.
No different from dictatorships.
Rule of law? Respect for human rights?
This would deny people the legal right to challenge one’s detention.
Arbitrary detention of opponents would be normalised.
No different from dictatorships.
Rule of law? Respect for human rights?
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We have a desperate shortage of care workers. This has a catastrophic effect on the NHS too.
Labour’s decision to close the care worker visa scheme for overseas recruitment is appalling, kneejerk politics that - yet again - will penalise the most vulnerable.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Labour’s decision to close the care worker visa scheme for overseas recruitment is appalling, kneejerk politics that - yet again - will penalise the most vulnerable.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK care homes face ban on overseas recruitment under migration plans
Yvette Cooper to announce proposals to reduce net migration in response to growing pressure from Reform UK
www.theguardian.com
May 11, 2025 at 9:41 AM
We have a desperate shortage of care workers. This has a catastrophic effect on the NHS too.
Labour’s decision to close the care worker visa scheme for overseas recruitment is appalling, kneejerk politics that - yet again - will penalise the most vulnerable.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Labour’s decision to close the care worker visa scheme for overseas recruitment is appalling, kneejerk politics that - yet again - will penalise the most vulnerable.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Nobel prize winnerJoseph Stiglitz explains how Brexit is making the UK worse off
Then criticises Keir Starmer and Labour for negotiating with Trump from a position of weakness and not with strength by joining other countries
Then criticises Keir Starmer and Labour for negotiating with Trump from a position of weakness and not with strength by joining other countries
May 11, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Nobel prize winnerJoseph Stiglitz explains how Brexit is making the UK worse off
Then criticises Keir Starmer and Labour for negotiating with Trump from a position of weakness and not with strength by joining other countries
Then criticises Keir Starmer and Labour for negotiating with Trump from a position of weakness and not with strength by joining other countries
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For anyone who's just seen Yvette Cooper talking about the immigration white paper, I set out some of the evidence and facts here.
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www.independent.co.uk/voices/tight...
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www.independent.co.uk/voices/tight...
May 11, 2025 at 8:27 AM
For anyone who's just seen Yvette Cooper talking about the immigration white paper, I set out some of the evidence and facts here.
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www.independent.co.uk/voices/tight...
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www.independent.co.uk/voices/tight...
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Anybody who claims all/most recent immigration is "low-skilled should be forced to explain this..
May 11, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Anybody who claims all/most recent immigration is "low-skilled should be forced to explain this..
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I am seriously shocked at the words coming out of Yvette Cooper’s mouth
May 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I am seriously shocked at the words coming out of Yvette Cooper’s mouth
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Hard hitting from @mark-ungrin.bsky.social on how a naive reliance on a cartoonish version of EBM killed public health.
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Trump’s Cronies Aren’t What Broke Public Health - WHN
The structural blind spots that undermine medical progress and how to fix them. Public health didn’t die when RFK Jr. became Trump’s Health Secretary. It was already on life support, hamstrung by a si...
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May 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Hard hitting from @mark-ungrin.bsky.social on how a naive reliance on a cartoonish version of EBM killed public health.
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Of course I’d rather Labour had won the by-election and losing by six votes is astonishing.
But I hope Starmer takes the message that Reform are better at being Reform than Labour, and Labour’s best bet is to go back to being Labour.
But I hope Starmer takes the message that Reform are better at being Reform than Labour, and Labour’s best bet is to go back to being Labour.
May 2, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Of course I’d rather Labour had won the by-election and losing by six votes is astonishing.
But I hope Starmer takes the message that Reform are better at being Reform than Labour, and Labour’s best bet is to go back to being Labour.
But I hope Starmer takes the message that Reform are better at being Reform than Labour, and Labour’s best bet is to go back to being Labour.
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Since we’re all talking about it I want to blow up a real female space pioneer, Mae Jemison, an actual astronaut. She’s a graduate of Stanford and Cornel Medical School, served in the peace corps, started an educational nonprofit, and worked for the CDC researching vaccines. That’s a woman in space
April 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Since we’re all talking about it I want to blow up a real female space pioneer, Mae Jemison, an actual astronaut. She’s a graduate of Stanford and Cornel Medical School, served in the peace corps, started an educational nonprofit, and worked for the CDC researching vaccines. That’s a woman in space
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Better late than never...our evaluation website is now live!
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Pharmacy First Evaluation | LSHTM
An independent evaluation of England's Pharmacy First service. Launched in 2024, we will study implementation and impact of the new scheme which enables pharmacies to supply prescription-only
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March 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Better late than never...our evaluation website is now live!
www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
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New article now out! Comparing antibiotic supply for acute sore throat in pharmacies in England to those in Wales (spoiler alert: English antibiotic supply is much higher).
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Comparison of antibiotic provision associated with acute sore throat symptom management in community pharmacies in Wales and England: a natural policy experiment
AbstractBackground. Acute sore throat is managed in community pharmacies in England and Wales under different clinical pathways: Acute Sore Throat Pharmacy
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March 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Just spent day reading about the collapse of the British car industry.
The lack of vision, the managerial incompetence, the strategic insularity, the complacent reliance on ‘world-class’ marques, the constant short-termism, bad labour relations.
And I thought: yup, there go our universities too.
The lack of vision, the managerial incompetence, the strategic insularity, the complacent reliance on ‘world-class’ marques, the constant short-termism, bad labour relations.
And I thought: yup, there go our universities too.
March 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Just spent day reading about the collapse of the British car industry.
The lack of vision, the managerial incompetence, the strategic insularity, the complacent reliance on ‘world-class’ marques, the constant short-termism, bad labour relations.
And I thought: yup, there go our universities too.
The lack of vision, the managerial incompetence, the strategic insularity, the complacent reliance on ‘world-class’ marques, the constant short-termism, bad labour relations.
And I thought: yup, there go our universities too.
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PROTEST in any way you can the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil for practicing free speech. He's a Columbia grad married to an American. This is an outrageous violation of the First Amendment. apnews.com/article/colu...
Trump warns that arrest of Palestinian activist at Columbia will be 'first of many'
President Donald Trump is warning that the arrest and possible deportation of a Palestinian activist who helped lead protests at Columbia University will be the first “of many to come” as his administ...
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March 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
PROTEST in any way you can the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil for practicing free speech. He's a Columbia grad married to an American. This is an outrageous violation of the First Amendment. apnews.com/article/colu...
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Anyone find it funny how when the UK releases the Cass review to ban trans care, we get everything ranging from New York Times push notifs to op-eds in every major US paper...
But when Germany, Switzerland, and Austria release pro-trans youth care guidelines, not a single article anywhere but mine?
But when Germany, Switzerland, and Austria release pro-trans youth care guidelines, not a single article anywhere but mine?
1. Major news in transgender care.
Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines.
They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the
Cass Review in England.
Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care.
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Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines.
They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the
Cass Review in England.
Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
New German, Swiss, And Austrian Guidelines Recommend Trans Youth Care, Slam Cass Review
The recommendations, released by the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany, come at a time when US politicians erroneously claim that Europe is "pulling back" on transgender care.
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March 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Anyone find it funny how when the UK releases the Cass review to ban trans care, we get everything ranging from New York Times push notifs to op-eds in every major US paper...
But when Germany, Switzerland, and Austria release pro-trans youth care guidelines, not a single article anywhere but mine?
But when Germany, Switzerland, and Austria release pro-trans youth care guidelines, not a single article anywhere but mine?
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that the decision to single out, detain &persecute someone for their political speech was made by those at the highest levels is the purest distillation of fascism. so many dems are silent bc, by framing anti-genocide speech as antisemitic for over a year, they helped create the conditions for this
Trump takes credit for Mahmoud Khalil's arrest by ICE:
March 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
that the decision to single out, detain &persecute someone for their political speech was made by those at the highest levels is the purest distillation of fascism. so many dems are silent bc, by framing anti-genocide speech as antisemitic for over a year, they helped create the conditions for this
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Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression theonion.com/trump-s...
March 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression theonion.com/trump-s...
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it will be the best depression, the most beautiful depression, better than all of the other depressions in the world
March 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
it will be the best depression, the most beautiful depression, better than all of the other depressions in the world
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"A $1 increase in the minimum wage is linked to a fall in the suicide rate of between 3.5 and 6% among people with high school education or less, reveals a 26-year study, published online in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health"
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$1 Increase in Minimum Wage Linked to 3.5–6% Drop in Suicide Rate
Effects seem to be strongest during periods of high unemployment, shows 26-year study. A $1 increase in the minimum wage is linked to a fall in the suicide rate of between 3.5 and 6% among people with...
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March 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
"A $1 increase in the minimum wage is linked to a fall in the suicide rate of between 3.5 and 6% among people with high school education or less, reveals a 26-year study, published online in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health"
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So increasing the minimum wage to a livable wage is “socialism”?
But Amazon union busting, keeping wages low, and forcing workers onto public assistance while its founder increases his net worth by $7.9M an hour is the "free market"?
Perhaps this could be a WaPo opinion piece.
But Amazon union busting, keeping wages low, and forcing workers onto public assistance while its founder increases his net worth by $7.9M an hour is the "free market"?
Perhaps this could be a WaPo opinion piece.
February 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
So increasing the minimum wage to a livable wage is “socialism”?
But Amazon union busting, keeping wages low, and forcing workers onto public assistance while its founder increases his net worth by $7.9M an hour is the "free market"?
Perhaps this could be a WaPo opinion piece.
But Amazon union busting, keeping wages low, and forcing workers onto public assistance while its founder increases his net worth by $7.9M an hour is the "free market"?
Perhaps this could be a WaPo opinion piece.
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Perhaps it’s best for women to explain it. We would rather keep our rights, our jobs and not have men tell us what to do with our lives and our bodies. The Left offers that, the AfD would take it away.
February 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Perhaps it’s best for women to explain it. We would rather keep our rights, our jobs and not have men tell us what to do with our lives and our bodies. The Left offers that, the AfD would take it away.