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Efi Mantzourani

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Academic Pharmacist | Professor of Pharmacy Practice | Evidenced-based development, implementation and evaluation of pharmacy infection services | Moved to UK 20 years ago | Still miss the sunshine!

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Far-right thug Tommy
Robinson flees UK after police
warning over terror threat
Far-right thug Tommy Robinson took to social
media this evening to proclaim himself a 'priority
target' for ISIS, adding he had fled the UK after
receiving a call from Bedfordshire Police

Far-right thug Tommy Robinson flees UK after police warning over terror threat Far-right thug Tommy Robinson took to social media this evening to proclaim himself a 'priority target' for ISIS, adding he had fled the UK after receiving a call from Bedfordshire Police

Fighting age man flees his homeland to seek asylum on overcrowded island.

14.02.2026 09:10 πŸ‘ 2979 πŸ” 876 πŸ’¬ 317 πŸ“Œ 82
Screenshot of Tommy Ten Names, claiming he's afraid and fleeing the UK.

Screenshot of Tommy Ten Names, claiming he's afraid and fleeing the UK.

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country?

Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

14.02.2026 07:55 πŸ‘ 7765 πŸ” 2430 πŸ’¬ 378 πŸ“Œ 167
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This make you uncomfortable? Good! Because this isn’t history, it’s reality and what ICE has normalized.

30.01.2026 06:00 πŸ‘ 5055 πŸ” 2002 πŸ’¬ 131 πŸ“Œ 71

It's partly the ignorant lack of gratitude.
People like me came to UK fully reared and educated at the expense of another country. Spent our productive years paying for your education, health and services with our taxes. Now from the racists in Lab, Con, Ref: F off - you're to blame for everything.

16.11.2025 16:31 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

My granddad was a refugee, my wife, our close friends and those of our kids are either immigrants or the children of immigrants.

Do ministers ever think about the message their rhetoric on "handouts" and "golden tickets" for migrants sends about whether this is a government for people like us?

16.11.2025 16:02 πŸ‘ 2388 πŸ” 501 πŸ’¬ 98 πŸ“Œ 27
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Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system!

Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.

29.09.2025 09:09 πŸ‘ 4872 πŸ” 1336 πŸ’¬ 251 πŸ“Œ 124
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Transitions of Care presentation at Pharmaceutical Sciences Conference Professor Efi Mantzourani speaks about successful service at conference.

Read all about it! Our fantastic Efi Mantzourani gave a talk about transition of care at the FIP World Conference of Pharmacy in Copenhagen.

www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/29...

17.09.2025 15:57 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Robert Redford on the phone, plus Dustin Hoffman. From All the President’s Men

Robert Redford on the phone, plus Dustin Hoffman. From All the President’s Men

When journalism was cool. And risked everything to challenge power.

16.09.2025 16:18 πŸ‘ 13534 πŸ” 3142 πŸ’¬ 346 πŸ“Œ 211
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In case you missed it ...
πŸ’₯ This is the type of speech Starmer could have given on immigration. But unlike the Spanish PM Pedro SΓ‘nchez, Starmer doesn't seem to feel any sense of duty, protection, or thanks towards the foreigners in the UK who are holding this country together.
#NotStrangers

15.05.2025 14:02 πŸ‘ 230 πŸ” 102 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 15
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Trump administration considering suspending habeas corpus The White House is

Trump administration considers suspending habeas corpus.

This would deny people the legal right to challenge one’s detention.

Arbitrary detention of opponents would be normalised.

No different from dictatorships.

Rule of law? Respect for human rights?

11.05.2025 06:21 πŸ‘ 272 πŸ” 106 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 4
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UK care homes face ban on overseas recruitment under migration plans Yvette Cooper to announce proposals to reduce net migration in response to growing pressure from Reform UK

We have a desperate shortage of care workers. This has a catastrophic effect on the NHS too.

Labour’s decision to close the care worker visa scheme for overseas recruitment is appalling, kneejerk politics that - yet again - will penalise the most vulnerable.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

11.05.2025 09:41 πŸ‘ 591 πŸ” 265 πŸ’¬ 51 πŸ“Œ 33
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Nobel prize winnerJoseph Stiglitz explains how Brexit is making the UK worse off

Then criticises Keir Starmer and Labour for negotiating with Trump from a position of weakness and not with strength by joining other countries

11.05.2025 09:12 πŸ‘ 279 πŸ” 102 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 10
Meanwhile, the incessant claims from some politicians and newspapers about recent growth being mostly or entirely driven by β€œlow-skilled migration” have little or no support from the actual data. There are certainly plenty of recent migrants on relatively low pay – but equally many on average or better wages. And, perhaps more importantly, they seem to be seeing quite rapid earnings progression, so the longer-term impacts may be even more positive.

Meanwhile, the incessant claims from some politicians and newspapers about recent growth being mostly or entirely driven by β€œlow-skilled migration” have little or no support from the actual data. There are certainly plenty of recent migrants on relatively low pay – but equally many on average or better wages. And, perhaps more importantly, they seem to be seeing quite rapid earnings progression, so the longer-term impacts may be even more positive.

For anyone who's just seen Yvette Cooper talking about the immigration white paper, I set out some of the evidence and facts here.

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www.independent.co.uk/voices/tight...

11.05.2025 08:27 πŸ‘ 267 πŸ” 162 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 10
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Anybody who claims all/most recent immigration is "low-skilled should be forced to explain this..

11.05.2025 08:30 πŸ‘ 126 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 7

I am seriously shocked at the words coming out of Yvette Cooper’s mouth

11.05.2025 09:21 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump’s Cronies Aren’t What Broke Public Health - WHN The structural blind spots that undermine medical progress and how to fix them. Public health didn’t die when RFK Jr. became Trump’s Health Secretary. It was already on life support, hamstrung by a si...

Hard hitting from @mark-ungrin.bsky.social on how a naive reliance on a cartoonish version of EBM killed public health.
whn.global/trumps-croni...

08.05.2025 14:57 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Of course I’d rather Labour had won the by-election and losing by six votes is astonishing.

But I hope Starmer takes the message that Reform are better at being Reform than Labour, and Labour’s best bet is to go back to being Labour.

02.05.2025 05:35 πŸ‘ 471 πŸ” 85 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 5
Mae Jemison wears a bright orange NASA space suit and holds her helmet for a photo

Mae Jemison wears a bright orange NASA space suit and holds her helmet for a photo

Since we’re all talking about it I want to blow up a real female space pioneer, Mae Jemison, an actual astronaut. She’s a graduate of Stanford and Cornel Medical School, served in the peace corps, started an educational nonprofit, and worked for the CDC researching vaccines. That’s a woman in space

14.04.2025 16:03 πŸ‘ 4130 πŸ” 1253 πŸ’¬ 71 πŸ“Œ 62
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Pharmacy First Evaluation | LSHTM An independent evaluation of England's Pharmacy First service. Launched in 2024, we will study implementation and impact of the new scheme which enables pharmacies to supply prescription-only

Better late than never...our evaluation website is now live!

www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

@dianeashiru.bsky.social @ayodejimatuluko.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social @lshtmamrcentre.bsky.social @efimantz.bsky.social

17.03.2025 12:20 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Brilliant teamwork from Cardiff University/WG and LSHTM @kerryhood.bsky.social

12.03.2025 14:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Clinical outcomes following acute sore throat assessment at community pharmacy versus general practice: a retrospective, longitudinal, data linkage study - PubMed The pharmacy-led STTT service is safe, cost-effective, and contributes to antimicrobial stewardship.

Yes, definitely, quality of tests needs to be confirmed before integration in any service! In terms of costs, we have done the work for Wales pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39523475/

12.03.2025 14:31 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@antimicrobial.bsky.social @pharmacycu.bsky.social @philiphowardamr.bsky.social

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Just spent day reading about the collapse of the British car industry.

The lack of vision, the managerial incompetence, the strategic insularity, the complacent reliance on β€˜world-class’ marques, the constant short-termism, bad labour relations.

And I thought: yup, there go our universities too.

11.03.2025 18:05 πŸ‘ 1829 πŸ” 358 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 10
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Trump warns that arrest of Palestinian activist at Columbia will be 'first of many' President Donald Trump is warning that the arrest and possible deportation of a Palestinian activist who helped lead protests at Columbia University will be the first β€œof many to come” as his administ...

PROTEST in any way you can the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil for practicing free speech. He's a Columbia grad married to an American. This is an outrageous violation of the First Amendment. apnews.com/article/colu...

11.03.2025 14:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Anyone find it funny how when the UK releases the Cass review to ban trans care, we get everything ranging from New York Times push notifs to op-eds in every major US paper...

But when Germany, Switzerland, and Austria release pro-trans youth care guidelines, not a single article anywhere but mine?

10.03.2025 22:52 πŸ‘ 11156 πŸ” 3449 πŸ’¬ 91 πŸ“Œ 42

that the decision to single out, detain &persecute someone for their political speech was made by those at the highest levels is the purest distillation of fascism. so many dems are silent bc, by framing anti-genocide speech as antisemitic for over a year, they helped create the conditions for this

10.03.2025 17:39 πŸ‘ 1393 πŸ” 500 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 14
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Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression theonion.com/trump-s...

10.03.2025 19:10 πŸ‘ 9324 πŸ” 1801 πŸ’¬ 198 πŸ“Œ 105

it will be the best depression, the most beautiful depression, better than all of the other depressions in the world

10.03.2025 19:43 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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$1 Increase in Minimum Wage Linked to 3.5–6% Drop in Suicide Rate Effects seem to be strongest during periods of high unemployment, shows 26-year study. A $1 increase in the minimum wage is linked to a fall in the suicide rate of between 3.5 and 6% among people with...

"A $1 increase in the minimum wage is linked to a fall in the suicide rate of between 3.5 and 6% among people with high school education or less, reveals a 26-year study, published online in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health"

scitechdaily.com/1-increase-i...

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