"Until we fix rehab, the revolving door will continue" #investinrehab

Another nursing home closure as per Jack Power The Irish Times. 40 years of service within a community coming to an end. Devastating for residents & staff. Fair Deal not meeting the reality of the cost environment the nursing home is operating in. Survival no longer an option

Such a gorgeous afternoon at Mooncoin Residential Home with music by Liam Merriman as part of Bealtaine Festival Nursing Homes Ireland National Arts in Nursing Homes Day today..the lovely residents had a ball & dancing broke out! Age & Opportunity 🌈 The Alzheimer Society of Ireland The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Music & Health Ireland

Excited to see the new & expanded version 3 of the STOPP/START criteria for potentially inappropriate prescribing in older people! 🔥 Read up on the key updates: #deprescribing #polypharmacy #PIMs #geriatrics link.springer.com/article/10.100…

📢New BGS blog! Patients living with frailty are particularly at risk when transfer of care goes awry. Senior Pharmacist Rhiannon Mohabir asks if poor transfers of care are failing older people. bgs.org.uk/blog/is-poor-t…

Yesterday at #WICOPSIM we were joined by NAS_Waterford Pathfinder team who challenged our MDT to assess a person in their own home following a fall. Provided excellent insight into how Pathfinder Alternative Care Pathway work & how our service might best support them to avoid hospital HSE/SECH (now part of HSE Dublin and South East)

Study findings do not support the treatment of elevated inpatient blood pressures in hospitalized older adults without evidence of end organ damage and highlight the need for randomized clinical trials of inpatient blood pressure treatment targets. ja.ma/3NXGLWV

A letter by Tim Delaney - tinyurl.com/29x35ua3 - highlighting some of the School's #research (pictured), led by Kieran Dalton, showing the many potential benefits of having #pharmacist prescribing in hospital, and that Irish hospital pharmacists would welcome prescribing 🏥

HSE Ireland delivered over 2500 medicines reviews with shared decision making in 11 GP practices with the Interreg Tweets and Department of Health funded iSIMPATHY project. Reviews improved quality, safety, patient and GP experience and saved money. We need to fund roll out nationally.

Delighted to represent HSE Ireland w iSIMPATHY winning CausewayXchange award. All down to Leon O'Hagan Clare Kinahan Emma Jane Jacqueline Treacy Niamh Feeley Celine Croarkin and support of CHO8 Joseph Ruane CHO1 Dermot Monaghan @NationalQPS HSE EU & North South Unit Dr Colm Henry, CCO HSE Ireland Now to mainstream!

Antibiotic-associated Encephalopathy ….under-recognised cause of altered mental status #FOAMed St James's Hospital

GP Pharmacists have been a game-changer in Primary Care. Great to see this GPP NI 2030 strategy coming forward. Crikey it’s so good to have a Health Minister back; things are happening!! Cathy Harrison Ursula Mason

We're looking forward to tomorrow's webinar, there is still time to register ➡️iiop.ie/content/webina…

Will a Chief Pharmaceutical Officer be next? Leadership is also needed in the delivery of existing and new #pharmacy services. Irish Pharmacy Union PSI

Wonderful presentation from Niamh McMahon #nicpop on the development of the knowledge and skills framework for HCPs hse.ie/eng/about/who/… A great manifestation of inter-professional collaboration

We are hiring #pharmacists throughout Ireland to work on our national clinical trial on Medicines and socIal prescribing to aDdress pAtient prioritieS in #multimorbidity (MIDAS). Find out more: linkedin.com/jobs/view/3955… PHPC HRB PrimaryCare CTNI School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin TCD Pharmacy

Prof Graham Ellis eloquently outlines how acute hospital level care is analogous to a medical treatment - comes with clear care benefits to a patient but also with a long list of potential drawbacks or “side-effects”. Irish Gerontological Society #IGS2024

Delighted to share ⁦iSIMPATHY⁩ learnings in an excellent pharmacotherapeutics session at #IGS2024. Calls for polypharmacy stewardship and for comprehensive medicines review service availability on referral or in the community. ⁦ ⁦@NationalQPS⁩ ⁦Dr Colm Henry, CCO HSE Ireland⁩

A thoroughly enjoyable couple of days in Athlone for #IGS2024 Delighted to present an evaluation of the EDAPT service developed by Pathfinder Waterford in conjunction with ED colleagues, ensuring timely and appropriate discharges for older adults. Looking forward to Killarney in 2025

It was a privilege to speak at #IGS2024 on reducing anticholinergic burden through shared decision making, but even more of a privilege to learn so much from other disciplines. The schedule was packed with insightful and inspiring talks as always