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Sarah Jones @sarahjpharm.pharmsky.app · 6h

Happy #WorldMentalHealthDay 💚

👋 Hello in particular to all my @cmhpcommunity.pharmsky.app friends at #CMHP25 in Liverpool

Sad not to be with you but I'll be following along as much as possible thanks to @thementalelf.bsky.social

The Mental Elf @thementalelf.bsky.social · 24d

Excited to be reporting live from the 15th Annual International Psychiatric Pharmacy Conference in Liverpool, 10–11 Oct! 🎉

The programme covers everything from menopause & mental health to climate distress, trauma-informed care, and health equality.

🧵 #CMHP25 @cmhpcommunity.pharmsky.app

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Prof Mags Watson @magswatson1.bsky.social · 4d

💊Community pharmacists in Scotland - please consider participating in an interview with my #PhD student.💊

No specialist knowledge of depression is required: it is your opinions & perceptions that matter. Thank you.

#CommunityPharmacy #Pharmacist #Scotland #research #depression

See QR code ⬇️

recruitment notice for an interview study which includes community pharmacists in Scotland and explores their perceptions and opinions about a pharmacy-based service for people with depression.

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Tympanic & Frisketty @luckyerica3.bsky.social · 10d

It shouldn't need to be said, but your value as a fellow human being is not whether you are financially productive or whether you avoid claiming benefits. Image created by @ritb.bsky.social

I am a valuable member of society, in sickness and in health, regardless of whether I am able to work or volunteer. My value as a human being is not dependent on my financial contribution to the economy.
Recoveryinthebin.org

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Sarah Jones @sarahjpharm.pharmsky.app · 15d

Happy #WorldPharmacistsDay to #pharmsky

I'm a pharmacist who like poems and who feels anxious about the fractured nature of things. So I thought I would share something from @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social

Here's to all the small acts of kindness we see across the world of pharmacy every day 💚

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Sarah Jones @sarahjpharm.pharmsky.app · 15d

Ah, the absolute joy of the rhymes in those books! 😁
Enjoy the restaurant.

A picture of a small brown sausage dog with half a bone in its mouth, walking away from the viewer. The text above reads "Schnitzel Von Krumm with a very low tum" and it comes from the children's book Hairy Mcclary by Lynley Dodd

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Sarah Jones @sarahjpharm.pharmsky.app · 15d

I'm really sorry to hear this Amy. I think maintaining a connection without creating too much pressure for the other person to respond is a good approach. Gently but consistently letting them know they are valued and cared about. Happy to talk about it if you need, drop me a message xx

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South West Pharmacy Research Network @swpharmres.bsky.social · 17d

Our latest newsletter is out! Follow our link for upcoming events, funding opportunities, training, webinars, podcasts and much more sway.cloud.microsoft/EUZLnh8Ljtme...

SWPRN Newsletter September 2025

Welcome to the September 2025 edition of our newsletter. As ever, this is full of news and information, most importantly including details of our upcoming Innovation Day on 21st October and the new SW

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Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC), Bristol @capcbristol.bsky.social · 17d

The South West Pharmacy Research Network - @swpharmres.bsky.social - is a friendly group that promotes & supports #PharmacyResearch in the south west of England.

📆Their 2025 Innovation Day on 31 Oct in Bristol is an opportunity to learn, share & network.

Info & register below. 🔽

#PharmSky

South West Pharmacy Research Network @swpharmres.bsky.social · 24d

Come and join us at our 2025 Innovation day in Bristol! You can expect...
👑 Top class speakers
🥳 Networking opportunities
🖼️ Poster sessions
🛠️ Workshops
🍱 Lunch!!!
See our full speaker line up and book your free place now www.bath.ac.uk/events/south...

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Craig @craig.nikolic.co.uk · 18d

Read this, it’ll take you time, but it is essential.

Then think about any other profession or trade where some of these employees wouldn’t be dismissed by their employer for so many reasons.

That the NHS tolerates toxic little empires is not news, that it refuses to fix it though is unacceptable.

Dr Anushka Aubeelack @bumblebeenush.bsky.social · 19d

Anyone and everyone should read this article

Patients & healthcare providers

The machinery of the NHS is a magnificent & monstrous thing. We all need to be more aware of it

Flatten the hierarchies, lose the egos, be open about our errors
#MedSky #NHS #GMC #patients
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Paul Laity · After Martha

For the hospital, and for the NHS, it was a closed case, another preventable death: medicine is imperfect, such things...

www.lrb.co.uk

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UK Clinical Pharmacy Association @ukcpa.bsky.social · 21d

Curious about getting started in research as a clinical pharmacist?
Join us online on 12 Nov 2025, 1:00–2:00pm for a FREE webinar exploring how research can drive real change in pharmacy practice.

Open to all pharmacy professionals, from early career to advanced level.

Getting started in research within clinical pharmacy practice - UKCPA

Curious about how to engage with research alongside clinical practice? Whichever sector you work in, research is an essential driver of improvement in pharmacy practice and patient outcomes.

ukclinicalpharmacy.org

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Sarah Jones @sarahjpharm.pharmsky.app · 21d

Thank you! Great picture 🙂

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Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science @bennettoxford.bsky.social · 22d

📢Competition time!

We are launching the Bennett Prize in OpenPrescribing to celebrate the best user-led projects!

Have you improved safety, saved money or improved prescribing in your organisation using OpenPrescribing?
Enter now!

Find out more here 👇
www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/08...

Bennett Prize in OpenPrescribing | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science

We’re launching the Bennett Prize in OpenPrescribing to celebrate the best user-led projects using OpenPrescribing. Enter by sharing your work online and sending us the link — all kinds of entries wel...

www.bennett.ox.ac.uk

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South West Pharmacy Research Network @swpharmres.bsky.social · 24d

Come and join us at our 2025 Innovation day in Bristol! You can expect...
👑 Top class speakers
🥳 Networking opportunities
🖼️ Poster sessions
🛠️ Workshops
🍱 Lunch!!!
See our full speaker line up and book your free place now www.bath.ac.uk/events/south...

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Sarah Jones @sarahjpharm.pharmsky.app · 24d

I sometimes see him at the Weston village Flower show and should really pluck up the confidence to say hello and explain how he's partly responsible for some of my career choices!

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Claire @clairerobi6846.bsky.social · Sep 9

Research opportunity (UK only)! Understanding experiences of re-accessing secondary mental health services following discharge from Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) services.

We want to hear from you.

tinyurl.com/y2ku4e4y

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Sarah Jones @sarahjpharm.pharmsky.app · 24d

I can't be there this year, so I'm looking forward to following as much as possible here 🙂

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Sarah Jones @sarahjpharm.pharmsky.app · 24d

So it was! It must have been the reply by @klh2.bsky.social that meant it popped up on my timeline again 🙂

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Sarah Jones @sarahjpharm.pharmsky.app · 24d

Have a lovely day, I hope the sun shines for you. I'm busy updating my lectures for the third year Bath MPharm students ready for October. I can still trace a link back to the lectures I received from Prof Redfern when I was an undergrad. Did you have any lectures who you remember in particular?

The cats by artist Louis Wain, said to demonstrate a progressive disturbance of the mind caused by schizophrenia. The images move from a quite realistic cat to something more stylised and end with multicoloured images that look more like a Chinese dragon.

This series of images captured my imagination as an undergraduate and contributed to my desire to work in mental health.

The over simplistic interpretation is now challenged (see this interesting article linked below) but these images did introduce me to the idea that psychosis could be all consuming and frightening, and the level of sensitivity that might be needed when working with those in the midst of a psychotic episode.

https://wellcomecollection.org/stories/louis-wain-s-cryptic-cats

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Sarah Jones @sarahjpharm.pharmsky.app · 26d

Thank you for another brilliant talk. I am a repeat attendee (hearing you at the Roman Baths last time was pretty amazing) but today was the first time bringing the teen 🙂

Author Natalie Haynes at the Roman Baths giving an author's talk. She is standing by the edge of the water in front of a Bath Literature Festival sign.

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Sarah Jones @sarahjpharm.pharmsky.app · 28d

Okay, this is going to stay with me for a while @barristersecret.bsky.social 😮

I've been listening to #TheCutThroatTrial and had to get to the end last night to find out where the twists and turns would lead. Add it to your reading pile or enjoy the excellent cast who deliver the audio book.

Screen shot of an audio book: The Cut Throat Trial by the Secret Barrister writing as S. J. Fleet. It shows the end of the epilogue. The cover image is a shadowy figure under a street lamp.

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Tympanic & Frisketty @luckyerica3.bsky.social · Sep 6

What I've learned about the topic of psych meds and psych harms is:
• approach the conversation with your assumptions tucked away.
• believe people as the authority of their lives.

Asylum Magazine @asylummagazine.bsky.social · Sep 6

beyondmeds.com/2014/11/13/n...

"I told them that their story [about psychiatric drugs] is valid and so is mine. Not either/or, but both can be true"

I spoke at NAMI meeting - Beyond Meds: Alternatives to Psychiatry

I went to a NAMI meeting tonight and my story came out. The guest speaker knew who I was and asked me to introduce myself — as the author of Beyond Meds. The subject of the meeting was psych drug with...

beyondmeds.com

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Sarah Jones @sarahjpharm.pharmsky.app · Sep 5

Saw Inter Alia at the cinema via NT Live last night, I don't think the trailer does justice to the emotions this play provokes. A great companion piece to Prima Facie and brilliant theatre in its own right. Do see it if you can. It truly left me soul searching.

Inter Alia | Official Trailer - in cinemas from 4 September | National Theatre Live

YouTube video by National Theatre

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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · Sep 3

20 years post TGN 1412, later , are drug trials safer? v pleased to be doing this for @BBCRadio4
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - The Drug Trial That Went Wrong

What lessons have been learned from a 2006 clinical trial at Northwick Park Hospital?

www.bbc.co.uk

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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · Sep 3

New from me.
The Dangers of Diagnosis.
bennewmark.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/t...

The dangers of diagnosis

Two years ago, at a conference I described the process my wife and I went through to get our daughter her EHCP. I used a phrase familiar to those of us with children who find life harder and need m…

bennewmark.wordpress.com

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Sarah Jones @sarahjpharm.pharmsky.app · Aug 29

Classic example of poor medicines management at transition of care. It should *not* be up to patients to sort this stuff out. Also a good example of language not being clear. We perhaps know by 'hospital' we mean secondary care, but it's not helpful jargon here. Sorry @iamcarrie.bsky.social 😞

Carrie @iamcarrie.bsky.social · Aug 28

Having a bit of a faff as GP surgery won't prescribe my quetiapine because there is no shared care agreement. Whatever one of those is? Called CMHT and they don't know, so I've been put on the callback list for the duty worker. Ugh

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