I am pleased to share the launch of The CKM Collaborative. The CKM Collaborative has been created to support healthcare professionals in working across traditional boundaries, sharing learning and strengthening integrated care. Learn more: ckmcollaborative.com @pharmrj.pharmsky.app

🚨My updated @medscape.com Primary Care #Hack is live! 🔥The Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes Now including type 5 diabetes, hot on the heels of the International DIabetes Federation endorsement PDF download for all of my #hacks in comments @pharmrj.pharmsky.app 👇

🚨My updated @medscape.com Primary Care #Hack is live! 🔥The Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes Now including type 5 diabetes, hot on the heels of the International DIabetes Federation endorsement PDF download for all of my #hacks in comments @pharmrj.pharmsky.app 👇

🔥My latest Medscape Primary Care #Hack is live! 💡Continuous Glucose Monitoring #CGM for people living with #T2D Co-authored with @drheatherbell Includes 8 simple steps to interpreting the Ambulatory Glucose Profile report #AGP PDF download link in comments 👇 @pharmrj.pharmsky.app

🔥Update to my @medscape.com Primary Care #Hack: #DOAC dosing for stroke prevention in people with #AF & kidney impairment 🚨#DOACs are not "fire and forget" drugs; renal & liver monitoring should be done at least annually PDF download link in comments 👇🏾 @pharmrj.pharmsky.app

🔥My latest @medscape.com Medical Mentor podcast is live! 🎯Diagnosing & managing erectile dysfunction in primary care ❤️ ED can precede a CV event by 3-5y and is associated with >1.5x ⬆️ risk for CVD On Spotify, ApplePodcasts & @medscape.com website – link in comments 👇🏾 @pharmrj.pharmsky.app

Join me and Patrick Holmes for a free webinar on cardiovascular, kidney and metabolic (CKM) care. This session will also mark the official launch of The CKM Collaborative, formerly CVRM UK. 📅 Thursday, April 30 | 7pm | Online 💻 Register here: tinyurl.com/3hszjs5s

Book your place – Advancing Cardiovascular, Kidney, and Metabolic (CKM) Medicine: insights and innovations for the future – Zoom

Advancing Cardiovascular, Kidney, and Metabolic (CKM) Medicine: insights and innovations for the future – Zoom, Thu 30 Apr 2026 - Short abstract: CKM conditions are intrinsically related, yet despite therapeutic advances, single condition models of care prevail. There needs to be a reconfiguration in the delivery of healthcare to improve patient outcomes and maintain the sustainability of healthc...

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My next Mediconf webinar is on Wednesday 15 April 730pm "A Pot Pourri of Primary Care": 🎯Diagnosis & management of coeliac disease 🎯Management of hyperkalaemia 🎯Managing patients presenting with a change in voice 🎯Diagnosis & management of night sweats Link in comments

🎬I have built a small library of concise YouTube videos for people living with #T2D discussing: 🎯Positive lifestyle choices & #T2D 🎯Various aspects of #SGLT2i use including benefits, side-effects & sick day guidance 🎯UACR & #T2D with @kidneyresearchuk.org Link in comments⬇️ @pharmrj.pharmsky.app

🔥My latest @medscape.com Medical Mentor podcast is live! 🚨GLP1 Receptor Agonist Adverse Effects: Practical Tips for Clinicians 🎯Mitigating #gastrointestinal side-effects 🎯Pancreatitis 🎯Hair loss 🎯Nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy #NAION 🎯Interaction with #HRT Link in comments👇🏾

That physician will hardly be thought very careful of the health of his patients if he neglects his own. Galen 129-216 AD Successfully completed the Cape Town Cycle Tour with Tom Wishart! 109km. 1148m elevation gain. 5:13:21 riding time. Bucket list cycle. Strava flyover link in comments.

🖥️Join me tonight for my first MediConf webinar of 2026 🔥PCOS Redefined: Beyond Fertility to Cardiometabolic Health🔥 💡I'll be covering: 🎯New terminology 🎯Diagnosis 🎯Lifestyle interventions 🎯Non-fertility issues & cardiometabolic health 🎯Fertility & pregnancy Link in comments👇🏾

🔥Updated @medscape.com primary care #hack on #lipid management🔥 Incorporates 🔑messages from @escardio.bsky.social @eassociety.bsky.social focused update on #lipid modification guidance PDF download link in comments 👇🏾 @hpillminster.pharmsky.app @pharmrj.pharmsky.app

💪🏾Mind the Muscle: Incretin Therapies for Weight Loss 💪🏾 🔥The hottest of topics with incretin therapies🔥 Here's my last @medscape.com perspective piece from the ObesityWeek congress in Atlanta - link in comments 👇🏾 @pharmrj.pharmsky.app @hpillminster.pharmsky.app @jjmounjaro.bsky.social

Oooo worth a listen! @drkevinfernando.bsky.social knows how to draw a crowd and guaranteed to delivered superb CPD content. Let me present BlueSky Exhibit A: @bestpracticeshow.bsky.social Session on LFTs (Bonus points if you can spot me!) #BestPracticeShow #GPsky #PrimaryCare

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💡 The first step in healthcare is self-care 🔥My latest @medscape.com Medical Mentor podcast is live! 🚨Improving cardiometabolic health in #T2D, focusing on the importance of 24-hour physical behaviours for people living with #T2D or the 5 𝗦's @pharmrj.pharmsky.app @hpillminster.pharmsky.app

💡 The first step in healthcare is self-care 🔥My latest @medscape.com Medical Mentor podcast is live! 🚨Improving cardiometabolic health in #T2D, focusing on the importance of 24-hour physical behaviours for people living with #T2D or the 5 𝗦's @pharmrj.pharmsky.app @hpillminster.pharmsky.app

Great to see @drkevinfernando.bsky.social in real life talking us through the "potpourri" of diabetes @bestpracticeshow.bsky.social #bestpracticeshow check out his hacks and pearls ➡️ medscape-uk.co/Hacks

Day 1 @bestpracticeshow.bsky.social ✅ Highlights for me: - packed out session by @drkevinfernando.bsky.social on abnormal LFTS. Who knew that clinical diploma module on hepatic med would be handy? - Meeting some @nhsconfed.org Alumni - Catching with ex PCCLEs & my BFF @pharmrj.pharmsky.app

💡 “If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, living in the future” Laozi Born 601BC 🔥My latest @medscape.com Medical Mentor podcast is live 🚨Identifying & Managing Health Anxiety in Primary Care On Apple Podcasts, Spotify and link👇🏾 @pharmrj.pharmsky.app

💡Psoriasis Is More Than Just Skin Deep 🔥New @medscape.com Primary Care #Hack “Assessment and Management of Psoriasis in Primary Care" 🎯Common presentations inc. skin of colour 🎯Psoriatic arthritis 🎯Cardiometabolic risk & mental health 🎯Annual checklist & therapeutic options @pharmrj.pharmsky.app

🔥Metformin & #SGLT2i for almost all in draft NICE #t2d guidance! ⚠️But no drug is without harm, & we must balance the benefits against possible adverse effects 💡Have a look at my YouTube videos for people living with #T2D considering #sglt2is www.youtube.com/@DrKevinFern... @pharmrj.pharmsky.app

My latest @medscape.com Medical Mentor podcast is live! 🔶What is Type 3c Diabetes?🔶 🎯T3c diabetes is diabetes associated with any disease, trauma or surgery of the exocrine pancreas, and it's often misdiagnosed as #T2D Link in comments 👇🏾 Also on Spotify & Apple #podcasts @pharmrj.pharmsky.app

🙏🏾Thanks for the lovely feedback on my @medscape.com "what next after metformin" #hacks 💡Here are my companion #hacks for these resources covering: 🎯prescribing for #t2d & #CKD 🎯extraglycaemic indications of #sglt2is 👇🏾PDF links in comments @goggledocs.bsky.social @pharmrj.pharmsky.app

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease & old physician ends life with 1 drug for 20 diseases Sir William Osler 🔥Epic (!) update to my @medscape.com Primary Care #Hacks - "What next after metformin 1&2" 🔥 PDF link in comments @pharmrj.pharmsky.app @goggledocs.bsky.social

My latest @medscape.com Medical Mentor podcast is live! 🔶What is Lp(a), and when should we check it?🔶 🎯Lp(a) is an important but underappreciated independent risk factor for #ASCVD Link in comments👇🏾 Also on @Spotify & @Apple #podcasts @pharmrj.pharmsky.app @goggledocs.bsky.social

My latest @medscape.com Medical Mentor podcast is live! 🔶What is Lp(a), and when should we check it?🔶 🎯Lp(a) is an important but underappreciated independent risk factor for #ASCVD Link in comments👇🏾 Also on @Spotify & @Apple #podcasts @pharmrj.pharmsky.app @goggledocs.bsky.social

🔥#ADA2025 gamechanger! 🔶 Will Mifepristone Prove A #CATALYST For Change? 🎯 The #CATALYST trial is the next evolution in personalised #T2D care. We should consider screening for #hypercortisolism in those with difficult-to-control #T2D Link in comments below 👇🏾 @pharmrj.pharmsky.app

The STRIDE trial illustrates the significant benefits that semaglutide has for patients with type 2 diabetes and peripheral arterial disease. This therapy could improve quality and quantity of life in these patients, says @drkevinfernando.bsky.social. #diabetes www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Semaglutide Has Found Its STRIDE

The STRIDE trial has laid the foundation for a paradigm shift in how we use GLP-1 RAs for symptomatic peripheral arterial disease.

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🚦Join me Thurs eve for "A potpourri of primary care topics - part 2" 💡I'm covering: 🎯Interpretation of the FBC in primary care (neutropenias, lymphopenias, thrombocytopenias etc) 🎯UTI in children 🎯 Management of blurred vision in primary care 🎯 "Red eye" picture quiz Registration link in comments 👇🏾

❤️ My latest @medscape.com Primary Care #Hack has been a longstanding passion project! 🔥Prescribing Pearls for Primary Care🔥 🎯Tips on using mirtazapine, rosuvastatin low-dose doxycycline once-weekly rosuvastatin & others! PDF link in comments below👇🏾 @pharmrj.pharmsky.app @goggledocs.bsky.social