More research focused on user voice and aimed at direct benefits to the person is needed Professor Ian Maidment Incubator for Mental Health Research #CMHP24

So exciting to share the ways that we can help support the mental health education of the pharmacy workforce as well as vital research. Great conversations with #CMHP24 delegates about possible future directions Aston Pharmacy School Professor Ian Maidment Emma Bryant Emma Smith Jo Howe

#CMHP24 No decision about me without me. Don't just screen but intervene. Think about children and young people... they are not mini adults. Pharmacists "embedded" within MDTs can help shape best practice for individuals. Time/things to act on by Professor Prabitha Christabesan

Edoardo G. Ostinelli reminds us prognostication is hard! 🔸It's stressful and difficult to make predictions 🔸Patients except too much certainty 🔸Patients might lose confidence if I make an error. Easier to avoid it altogether? #CMHP24

This is at the heart of so many mental health consultations about medicines, and something pharmacists can learn to do really well 💚 #CMHP24 #SharedDecisonMaking

@RichardKeers PharMED Hafsah Habib Aston University Jo Howe Professor Ian Maidment CMHP MEDIATE (Medication optimisation in severe mental illness) study doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2023-016615 A realist review of medication optimisation of community dwelling service users with serious mental illness | BMJ Quality & Safety

NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service CMHP Emma Bryant Tracy Rogers So many fantastic mental health resources by NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service - I'm always showing them to colleagues and students!

This is Jo Howe live tweeting the first session to give you the #beyondtheroom experience for the CMHP conference Day 2 -As a Chartered Psychologist I'm looking forward to learning more about how AI can be used in drug safety to help prevent drug deaths in the UK #CMHP24

It was such a wonderful evening celebrating the passion and success of our staff and students Aston Pharmacy School Emma Smith Professor Ian Maidment as well as the wider CMHP. Looking forward to the next steps and possible collaborations #CMHP24

There is good evidence for Music therapy as an effective treatment but access to this therapy is not universally available #cmhp24

The fantastic work carried out by pharmacy teams in mental health is certainly something that needs to be celebrated. The APS team enjoyed celebrating these achievements at CMHP conference Awards Dinner last night #CMHP24 #TeamAston #AstonPharmacy

CMHP We are very proud to share that MPharm graduate 2024 Adeeka Saad was awarded the CMHP Undergraduate Pharmacist project award for the qualitative research she undertook for final year project – ‘Student Perspectives on Experiential Learning Opportunities in Mental Health’.

CMHP Roz Gittins Professor Ian Maidment Hannah Macfarlane (she/her), Emma Smith, Natalie Lewis, Gagan Degun and David Poyner were highly commended in the Service Development poster category for their poster – ‘Evidence-based Development of Mental Health Teaching in the Aston University MPharm’.

CMHP Roz Gittins Professor Ian Maidment Hannah Macfarlane (she/her) Emma Smith Natalie Lewis Gagan Degun We celebrated our PG Mental Health Therapeutics Certificate and Psychiatric Pharmacy Diploma students. Sarah Case won the Celia Feetam Award for best performance on the Certificate. Alun Morgan won the Helen Tennant Award for the best performance on the Diploma #CMHP24

It was a privilege to be able to disseminate #beyondtheroom on behalf of The Mental Elf from CMHP conference this weekend. Thanks for the opportunity and for all the brilliant sessions to share from #CMHP24

And thanks+ to everyone else who joined in sharing what happened at #CMHP24 Special mention to our top tweeters! Sarah Jones Alison Strath donna bartlett Graham Newton Abiola Allinson 💙 #BeKind (he/him) 🇳🇬🇬🇧 Kiran Hewitt

CMHP Awards 2024 👏 Congrats to our poster award winners, runners up and highly commended - original research, quality improvement and service development cmhp.org.uk/news/cmhp-awar…

Finally! First output from my EdD in mental health stigma and pharmacy education: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… With thanks to Joe Bush and Dr Alexis Paton for continuing to support me right up to this point. Aston Pharmacy School @AstonUniRKE