💪We are proud to spotlight Matthew Boyd 💙 (he/him), Professor of Medicines Safety UoN Science, as one of the shortlisted nominees for this year's #IPEAwards, Best Policy Impact Initiative category. Watch this video to hear more about his initiative and its impacts.

In this video, Sarah Cassidy, Associate Professor Nottingham Uni Psychology, and #IPEAwards finalist, speaks about her work which was instrumental in getting autistic people recognised as a high-risk group in the UK Suicide Prevention Strategy.

Congratulations Sarah Cassidy. This is really important work. Well done!

Nottingham, Derby, Burton, Chesterfield, Leicester, and Northampton are now confirmed to be joining a collaboration to deliver major digital change to our hospitals. We are yet to fully imagine the enormous possibilities that this will bring for our staff and patients.

This is amazing work Kimberley and Li Shean Toh. Congratulations to you both!

Now with updated links (apologies they didn't copy correctly when I re-posted my original tweet) GMC - gmc-uk.org/professional-s… HCPC - hcpc-uk.org/standards/meet… GPhC - pharmacyregulation.org/pharmacists/st…

The first speakers have arrived and we're all set. #PLEA24 Thanks to Fieldfisher for hosting.

Roz Gittins points out that newly qualified #pharmacists will soon automatically be independent #prescribers and will obviously be inexperienced. That may give rise to online #pharmacy issues. #PLEA24

Rach Clarke says the large no. of apps is unhelpful to #pharmacies, #patients and #regulators.

Roz says GPhC will have to keep up with developments in #AI.

Not a surprise to anyone in the profession, but with patient demand increasing for DSPs there will be ever greater challenges #plea24

Such a detailed presentation of the challenges. A fascinating insight into medicines in sport #plea24

#physios are often expected to administer #drugs to #sports competitors because #doctors are not necessarily on hand. Gives rise to legal issues #PLEA24

Wendy Lippmann, Senior Policy Manager for Community Pharmacy at DHSC, explaining that proposed date for hub and spoke legislative changes to come into effect is 1 January 2025. Here's a very brief summary #PLEA24

At the PLEA seminar our dual qualified speaker describes the transfer from pharmacist to paramedic as entering the “wild west of medicine” (because of the emergency aspects of the profession!) #PLEA2024 #pharmacy #healthcareregulation

Are you in the Nottingham area? Would you be interested in chatting with Student Pharmacists about health, ill-health, being a carer and/or your experiences of medicines ? We are looking for volunteers to join us over refreshments. Sign up here: nottinghampharmacy.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9R…

Great to see our students gaining multiple experiences of the context we base health discussion in. Very proud of you all. Well done!

At HSRUK today supporting my summer intern UoN_Pharmacy_PPP present her work with funds from School of Primary Care Research

Congratulations to Kimberley Claire Anderson Matthew Boyd 💙 (he/him), Tracey Thornley and Diane Ashiru, PhD on their latest paper looking at the TARGET Acne tools use by pharmacy professionals in general practice bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/7/e…