So proud that Sabah Khan from our Older Persons Pharmacy team in @IHCDudley & DudleyMedicinesTeam and Talvinder Samra from The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust 🏥 were able to share the excellent work we do to support our care homes - brilliant joint venture #carehomes #FallsPreventionAwarenessWeek #olderpeople

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 We are delighted to announce the landmark publication of the 'World Guidelines for Falls Prevention and Management for Older Adults: A Global Initiative' via Age_and_Ageing bgs.org.uk/wfg2022 #WorldFallsGuidelines #eugms2022

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We'd like to share this message from Royal Pharmaceutical Society and add that pharmacist prescribing improves the quality and safety of accessible patient care. Pharmacist prescribers have to meet the standards we set -pharmacists will only prescribe people medicine clinically appropriate for them.

Read Age_and_Ageing's World Falls Guidelines which were developed by the World Falls Task Force. This task force assembled 96 experts from 39 countries, with representation from 36 scientific and academic societies, including the BGS. bgs.org.uk/resources/worl… #BGSInvestInCare

Our pharmacy plans for the next 12 mths ⁦The Dudley Group⁩ ⁦Danielle Taylor⁩ ⁦Steven Shanu⁩ ⁦Karen Kelly⁩ #pharmacyawayday

Excellent visual representation of the hazards of hospitalisation for our frail older people. Question is: Has anything got better in the 20 years since this was written? #keepmoving #olderadults #Frailty #dihc #NHS

How should pharmacists approach deprescribing conversations? In this latest podcast episode Tony Avery and Lelly Oboh provide advice on how to make shared decisions with patients.

'#Polypharmacy in older people: A guide for healthcare professionals' via Welsh Government Health and Social Care includes practical guides for stopping a number of medications including Antihypertensives, Benzodiazepines and Z-drugs. Download the report here awttc.nhs.wales/files/guidelin…

Hot off the press!!📢 A topic I'm very passionate about! How can we facilitate safer transfer of care? A scoping review on the role of pharmacists in general practice. link.springer.com/article/10.100… Huge thanks to Dr Muhammad A. Hadi Hamde Nazar Clair Huckerby for making this possible

We are happy to welcome Rachael Thornton to the DaRe2THINK as an Associate PI!! 🎉 👀📖Read what she has to say about the positives of getting involved in #primarycare #research as a pharmacist!

Really proud of this achievement, thank you to DaRe2THINK and @IHCDudley DudleyMedicinesTeam for giving me the opportunity to get involved with #primarycareresearch

So proud to have won this award! Pharmacists can make such a difference in supporting the safe prescribing of medicines in older people PrescQIPP CIC Thank you! We are Primary Care British Geriatrics Society Royal Pharmaceutical Society

I then went on to win the Gold award at the Prescqipp Awards - wow - thank you to everyone who voted for me PrescQIPP CIC @IHCDudley

So pleased our amazing Pharmacy team got shortlisted, go go team Dudley!! Fingers crossed @IHCDudley DudleyMedicinesTeam Black Country Integrated Care System (ICS)

On 11th January 1-2pm, we welcome Rachael Thornton from @IHCDudley to discuss the Gold award-winning project ‘Evaluation of the deprescribing of anticholinergic medications in dementia patients’. Sign up here: ow.ly/Bl5t50QnJh0 #PrescQIPP2023 Tony Avery NHS Patient Safety

This 👇We do not teach take off and landing. Just take off. It’s madness. We have trained over 700 GPs and pharmacists and frailty nurses on the Polypharmacy action learning sets but it’s a drop in the ocean. Sooo much to be done. thehealthinnovationnetwork.co.uk/event/polyphar…

Fascinating conversations at University of Leicester with fellow Care Home Pharmacy Professionals - undoubted need for a Faculty to support, represent, credential and advocate for effective consistent pharmacy services for care home residents Ealing Community Partners West London NHS Trust The PCPA

The PCPA Met the legend Graham Stretch today at the Inaugural meeting of Care Home Pharmacists and Technicians with the aim to set up a National Care Home Faculty.

Do you deprescribe or review medicines💊 for older pple w frailty, polypharmacy, multimorbidity? Check out my article published in Prescriber wchh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… Tips & resources for pt centred #SMRs #Deprescribing #SDM conversations & more The PCPA PrescQIPP CIC MORPh