📢️ Webinar Announcement 📢️
We're marking Patient Safety Awareness Week 8-14th March 2026 with a special Teams webinar on Monday 9th March 2026 at 3pm:
“How can we harness existing data sources to maximise medication and patient safety?”
🗓️Register here: bit.ly/3Oa9haA
Assessing Older Adults' Adherence to Appropriate Polypharmacy: Selection of Outcome Measures for Intervention Trials. #geriatrics https://agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jgs.70313
Health Care Use of Frail Older People: Follow-Up Outcome Evaluation of an Intensive Primary Care Programme at 24 and 36 Months. #geriatrics https://agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jgs.70294
Agreement between discharge summary, discharge instructions, and patient provided reasoning for chronic medication changes made during hospitalization. #geriatrics https://agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jgs.70329
Depression in older adults - resources.
www.ccsmha.ca
💡 Large retrospective study finds approximately 1 in 20 nursing home residents who start #gabapentinoids go on to receive a loop diuretic within 3 months.
The study highlights the prevalence of an often overlooked prescribing cascade!
Read the full article here:
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“Cutting medicines optimisation capacity is not a saving; it is a false economy that jeopardises patient outcomes and the resilience of the NHS,” says Tase Oputu, RPS England Board Chair, in response to Government approved cuts to headcounts in ICBs and NHS England: https://bit.ly/4nVXEjM
💊 5 Tips to Manage Polypharmacy:
A toolkit co-developed by Canada’s Drug Agency, @ismpcanada.bsky.social & @deprescribing.bsky.social to help primary care providers identify and address polypharmacy with their patients.
Download the toolkit here:
www.cda-amc.ca/appropriate-...
Drum roll!! This is a very special document and will CHANGE PRACTICE www.bgs.org.uk/PragmaticPre...
An older person looking out a window with a thoughtful expression, under the title 'The State of Health and Care of Older People in England 2025'.
📃 Today, we release our 2025 State of Health and Social Care Report.
While more of us are living longer, on many other measures, we have gone backwards.
To read our 5 key takeaways, and to download the full report, visit the Age UK website: https://bit.ly/4gHDMih
Credit for these are down to the team - Dr Daisy Halligan, Hana Shamsan, Dr Alison Bravington, Prof Liz Breen, and Dr Hannah Hartley - in partnership with the residents, relatives, care home staff and healthcare professionals who co-designed them
People with dementia (PWD) are often overprescribed meds to manage comorbidities, behavioural symptoms & cognitive impairment. But deprescribing in PWD has unique challenges.
Find a roadmap for deprescribing in PWD and communication strategies to support the process here: tinyurl.com/yc6kxx69
Medicines waste in the care home pathway: environmental and social impacts 12.00 - 13.00 24 July 2025
Each year, £50 million of medicines are wasted in the care home pathway in England. Join us to learn some surprising insights and practical actions to address this.
Book: https://q.health.org.uk/get-involved/events/medicines-waste-in-the-care-home-pathway-environmental-and-social-impacts
🎉 Congrats to PhD student Lauren Lawson, who published in BMC Geriatrics! 📚 Her review, "Do hospital-to-home transitions work for older adults with multiple long-term conditions including dementia?" Great achievement!
bmcgeriatr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
@medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social
Help us ⬇️ £18million wasted on unused meds. Check what you have before ordering, check meds before leaving pharmacy and have ordering routine. More details ⬇️ @wypartnership.bsky.social www.wypartnership.co.uk/campaigns/or...
Study from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy finds a pharmacist educational intervention involving educational materials (videos and website resources) coupled with detailed deprescribing recommendations was shown to be effective in improving PCP's confidence in deprescribing:
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Starmer outlines 10-year plan to change NHS ‘from sickness service to health service’
Happy Birthday NHS!
🥳 A HUGE happy birthday to the NHS from us and patients across the country! 🎂
To every healthcare worker showing up day in, day out, thank you for all you do for patients. ❤️ #NHSbirthday
The @HealthInnovNet has published a new report sharing insights on improving access to Structured Medication Reviews for patients in seldom-heard communities, particularly people living in areas of high deprivation & from ethnic minority groups: thehealthinnovationnetwork.co.uk/news/new-ins...
Free Frailty eLearning. Free to all health and social care staff from @gerisoc.bsky.social
www.bgs.org.uk/elearning/fr...
Line graph of potential funding pressures for adults social care, England, 2023/24 to 2028/29 showing that meeting future demand for social care could require an additional £3.4bn in 2028/29.
New analysis sets out our priorities for health and care investment at the #SpendingReview.
For social care, just to meet demand and rising provider costs would need an extra £3.4bn by 2028/29; to improve access could be additional £6.4bn.
Read more in our full analysis ⬇️
https://bit.ly/4dGX4CS
Let's make hospitals safer for people with #Parkinson's.
"On time," means supporting people to take their meds within 30mins of the prescribed time or symptoms could increase.
Excellent supportive resources here for hospitals and all HCPs.
#GetItOnTime
parkinsons.org.uk/professional...
#pharmsky
Prescription of 2 or more STOPPFall medications is independently associated with all falls, injurious and unexplained falls, all fractures and hip fractures. Review these meds! academic.oup.com/ageing/artic...
💡 Impactful Trial from @dremilymcd.bsky.social's team!
The randomized trial found combining electronic deprescribing reports with regular medication reviews in long-term care homes led to a 23.7% increase in #deprescribing! 📊
Read the full article here:
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Comparative Safety of Medications for Severe Agitation: A Geriatric Emergency Department Guidelines 2.0 Systematic Review. #geriatrics agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Deprescribing Benzodiazepine Receptor Agonists in Older Adults and People With Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review. #geriatrics #geronsky agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Day 1: @cpcongress.bsky.social
ENIGMA mentoring programme.
Superb showcase from previous mentee and @hadeelmohamed.bsky.social explaining this opportunity for women pharmacists, addressing needs for those from ethic minorities backgrounds.
I’m a mentor for ENIGMA too.
Whooping from the back! 🥳🙌🏽🫶🏽
Brilliant paper on why promethazine is not a good option to aid sleep, and yet prescribing of it has doubled in last 5 yrs. What about OTC sales too, and also diphenhydramine.
#anticholinergics
#falls #dementia #delirium
#ACBscore
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Insightful editorial in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) @agsjournal.bsky.social from @drklam.bsky.social and his team, highlighting the following key points (see Thread):
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@amergeriatrics.bsky.social
