Graham Stretch
@grahamstretch.pharmsky.app
Pharmacist▫️President @PCPA_org▫️Chief Pharmacist-Partner Argyle GP▫️Lead Pharmacist, Care Homes, ECP▫️E&T▫️Research▫️PhD MAPharmT FRCPharm▫️🚴🏻♂️ #PharmSky
I was excited to see that @pcpa-uk.bsky.social have launched a phenomenal ACB (anticholinergic burden) toolkit to support colleagues to review these medicines and reduce the risks,cognitive impairment, dry eyes, dry mouth etc., espec for older people. Have a look at www.pcpa.org.uk/articles/pcp...
PCPA ACB Toolkit
Reducing the risks associated with anticholinergic medicines, this practical toolkit brings together the key resources, guidance, and tools.
pcpa.org.uk
A great podcast on the importance of clinical coding, a highly recommend listen from the very talented @pcpa-uk.bsky.social very own @hpillminster.pharmsky.app 👏 @ukcpa.bsky.social @hfhubscotland.bsky.social
Eid Mubarak to all members, friends & colleagues celebrating - warmest wishes from all at PCPA #EidAlFitr #EidAlFitr2026 #Eid2026 #EidMubarak #Eidmubarak2026 #EidUlFitr #EidulFitr2026
The UKPPLAB has today published an open letter on which @pcpa-uk.bsky.social is a co-signatory. Please join one of the webinars linked from the letter jointheconversation.scwcsu.nhs.uk/pharmacy-pro... @aptuk.bsky.social @bopa.org.uk @cmhpcommunity.pharmsky.app @rpharms.com @ukcpa.bsky.social
New petition: "Make Anticholinergic Burden scores mandatory for all over 65" Deadline 5 June 2026, created by Nick Sterling #NewPetition
New petition: Make Anticholinergic Burden scores mandatory for all over 65
Require the Government and DHSC to recommend NICE mandate ACB scoring in all medication reviews for patients over 65.
petition.parliament.uk
As a funder, we are keen to support nurses, allied health professionals and care home staff into research. Our Academy Ignition Fund provides flexible funding and two of our Excellence Award winners are using their funding to help too: vivensafoundation.org.uk/news/how-the... #FundingForAgeingWell
How the Academy is supporting nurses, allied health professionals and care home staff in research - Vivensa Foundation
Here are a few of the ways in which the Academy is providing support to encourage nurses, AHPs and care home staff into research.
vivensafoundation.org.uk
@pcpa-uk.bsky.social ANNUAL LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE Welcome address by Minesh Parbat & UKPPLAB Update from @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app #PCPAevents
On World Pharmacists Day 2025, we extend our heartfelt thanks to all our incredible care home pharmacists! Your dedication, smiles and lasting impact makes a real difference every day. National Pharmacy Care Homes Faculty (NPCHF) www.pcpa.org.uk/articles/pcp... #ThinkPharmacist
Congrats Abbie, our PCPA Pharmacy Technician Chair on winning APTUK Advancing Cinical Practice Award tonight @aptuk.bsky.social @abbiestirling.bsky.social @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app
🎉 PCPA CPIP FORUM - launched today!!!! If you follow @pcpa-uk.bsky.social on LinkedIn you can watch our President @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app introducing this new forum to support community pharmacy colleagues with prescribing practice. www.pcpa.org.uk/articles/cpi... #PCPAevents #PharmSky
Delighted to complete final DPP sign off for local Community Pharmacist Petya Bletsova today for her IP ✍🏻 ⭐ Petya bought donuts 🍩 for everyone- forgetting the 12 trainees are off for their exam tomorrow, luckily teenage boys at home will ensure no wastage - & me, GPs & nurses etc
❗️MPharm3 Students - ORIEL Deadline Wed 18th June - Register Now❗️ And of course - preference our unique 4️⃣ sector award winning training program, entering our 13th year - search ‘Argyle’ DPP in all four sectors GP - Hospital - Care Home - Community www.oriel.nhs.uk/Web/Home
Today ✅Foundation sign off & ✍🏻 Nurse / Pharmacist prescribing training Final sign off for foundation trainees Tarq & Arshida - thanks to Jade Pharmacy for further community / GP / Care Home collaborations Also Linda, Petya & Mericia nurse ACP & community pharmacist IP prescribing training
More evidence that structured approaches to drug management reduces the medicines 'burden' on individuals "our intervention nudged prescribers to regularly reassess [potentially inappropriate medications], which is important as people age and goals of care shift" jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Deprescribing Electronic Decision Support for Adults Living in Long-Term Care
This stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial of long-term care home residents assesses the efficacy of an evidence-based electronic decision support tool for deprescribing potentially inappropriate med...
jamanetwork.com
💡 I’m delighted to be chairing & speaking at the inaugural GP Pharmacy Virtual Event 💻 24 June 🤝 Fantastic line-up of Speakers 📃 Agenda: events.cogora.com/gp-pharmacy-... Join us! @thepharmacistnews.bsky.social
Listen to @pcpa-uk.bsky.social's very own @hpillminster.pharmsky.app on the @prescqipp.info Talking Meds Podcast with @jonathanunderhill.pharmsky.app here➡️ pcpa.co/HelenPOD #PharmSky #MedSky
19. The importance of generalism in pharmacy with Helen Kilminster
Talking Meds - A PrescQIPP podcast · Episode
pcpa.co
Congratulations 🎉and thanks to @hfxamanda.bsky.social on 30 years NHS service at Heath Pharmacy, Halifax - mind boggling to think of the hundreds of thousands of consultations, prescriptions & patient interactions you must of had during that time 😮 @pcpa-uk.bsky.social @lauraangus.pharmsky.app
The venues for the GPhC @gphc.bsky.social registration assessment and further details have been released www.pharmacyregulation.org/students-and...
If your project's improved medicines optimisation for older people, you could win a #PrescQIPP2025 Award. Enter the 'Care homes/domiciliary care/carer medicines optimisation' category: www.prescqipp.info/community-re... @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app @coachingchemist.pharmsky.app @pcpa-uk.bsky.social
Gender inequalities exist in pain management arising from unconscious biases amongst health care professionals - the ‘gender pain gap’ youtu.be/v4O27X2pAyQ?... With thanks to Reckitt for the opportunity to explore and highlight this under recognised area 🧵 1/2👇🏻
Join me to talk about all things DPP and Prescribing Training @cpcongress.bsky.social 🗓️ 10 May 2025 🕰️ 13:00 - 13:30 📍 Integrated & Primary Care Theatre #cpcongress #PCPAevents @pcpa-uk.bsky.social @noma1.bsky.social
Great to see this sign at King’s Cross has gone fully multi - lingual and is welcoming folks from Yorkshire like @laulok.bsky.social @lauraangus.pharmsky.app @hadeelmohamed.bsky.social @suealldred.bsky.social
How can we optimise our primary care workforce? Opening keynote panel- at Primary Care Partnership Network (PCPN) Looking forward to participating in morning pcpn-uk.com/agenda/2025/ @fhussain73.bsky.social Sonia Kumar @victoriatb.bsky.social Rachel Power Estefania Costa @pcpa-uk.bsky.social
In this months Spotlight Podcast @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app talks to our special guest, @drmahendrapatel.bsky.social, globally recognised, multi-award-winning pharmacist and academic leader. Listen@https://www.pcpa.org.uk/resources/pcpa-spotlight-podcast-prof-mahendra-patel-obe
In praise of training (and trainees)…. Everyone in these photos is a trainee (bar a couple of consented patients)- undergrad, foundation trainee, foundation, PCPEP, IP, ACP, DPP or PhD Many have trained with me over last 15 years and how am I doing 39 week & GPhC assessment entry forms already?
Eid Mubarak to all members, friends & colleagues celebrating - warmest wishes from all at PCPA #EidAlFitr #EidAlFitr2025 #Eid2025 #EidMubarak #Eidmubarak2025 #EidUlFitr #EidulFitr2025
Happy Mother’s Day to all members, colleagues and friends who do an awesome job of balancing motherhood and work!! from all at PCPA #mothersday2025
