Since OpenPrescribing Hospitals launched, you've asked: what about biosimilars? Primary care can track them; secondary care still cannot. Find out why 👇

You asked: Can we monitor the usage of biosimilars in secondary care using OpenPrescribing Hospitals? | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science

What are biosimilars, why are they of interest and why can we monitor usage with primary care data but not secondary care data?

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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

Inflammation is a driver of age-related diseases (inflammaging) and this new NYT magazine article gets deep into the progress that is being made to track and block it gift link www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Inflammation Keeps Us Alive. It's Also Making Us Sick. (Gift Article)

The discovery that chronic inflammation is a cause of myriad illnesses could be this century's biggest medical breakthrough.

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The Bennett conference returns to Oxford! December 8th and 9th Open code in science Read more and register www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2026/07...

Coming 8-9 December: The 2026 Bennett Oxford Symposium on Open Code in Science | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science

Join us for the 2026 Bennett Oxford Symposium on Open Code in Science

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Effective prioritisation requires the skills, tools, and understanding necessary to confront various dilemmas of providing patient care. This study of experienced GPs highlights themes that can be used to teach prioritisation decision making to GP registrars or CPD doi.org/10.3399/BJGP...

Good morning! Check this out! Share it with your friends! Think about things to submit! We’d love to see you there!

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Registration is open for the 2026 Bennett Oxford Symposium on Open Code in Science! 📅 8-9 December 2026 📍 The Examination Schools, University of Oxford, 75-81 High St, Oxford OX1 4BG ℹ️ https://www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/events/2026-bennett-institute-symposium/ We look forward to seeing you there!

Registration is open for the 2026 Bennett Oxford Symposium on Open Code in Science! 📅 8-9 December 2026 📍 The Examination Schools, University of Oxford, 75-81 High St, Oxford OX1 4BG ℹ️ https://www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/events/2026-bennett-institute-symposium/ We look forward to seeing you there!

The Court of Appeal has upheld findings that pharma firms illegally jacked up the price of lifesaving hydrocortisone tablets from <£1 to >£70 per pack. Annual NHS spending surged from £500k to £80m+. A clear warning against price-gouging. #Pharmsky www.gov.uk/government/n...

Court upholds CMA findings that firms charged excessive and unfair prices for lifesaving NHS-funded medicine

The Court of Appeal has confirmed that firms broke the law by charging excessive and unfair prices for hydrocortisone tablets over a decade.

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So, I finally did a TED talk, and it got released today. I seem to have been quite intense, but I'm grateful they left in my Trump joke. www.ted.com/talks/bill_m...

Our last, best chance to cool the Earth

We're living through oil wars, wildfire smoke and extreme weather driven by a warming planet. But environmentalist Bill McKibben says one thing is finally going right: the price of clean energy has pl...

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NHS England is looking to tender for a £360,000 contract to deliver clinical skills training for pharmacy technicians #ukpharmacy #pharmacytechnician

NHS England seeking provider for pharmacy technician clinical training

NHS England is looking to tender for a £360,000 contract to deliver clinical skills training for pharmacy technicians. On 20 July 2026, NHS England opened a tender that highlighted a need “to bridge…

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Cowper’s Cut 440: “And would you like cuttings of long grass with your adult social care reform?”

Adult social care’s Bank of England 1997 independence moment, that was not. PM and Mascara Kid Andy Burnham’s speech on social care reform turned out to be a heavily-trailed nothingburger. You couldn...

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New @mhragovuk.bsky.social assessment on bladder anticholinergics & dementia risk: Current evidence doesn't prove these medicines directly cause dementia, though a small risk can't be fully ruled out. #Pharmsky www.gov.uk/government/p...

Bladder Anticholinergics: review of risk of dementia

Public Assessment Report on the safety review of the available data on the risk of dementia with the use of bladder anticholinergic medicines.

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Now on demand: a 3-part webinar series on CKD and hypertension. Watch now: kdigo.co/CKD-Hyperten... In this series, David Wheeler, Adeera Levin, and Hiddo Lambers Heerspink discuss aldosterone's role in kidney function decline, eGFR slope, and applying the latest evidence in clinical practice.

Congratulations to the latest cohort of pharmacists to achieve Advanced Credentialing. With an impressive 92% success rate, this group also marked important milestones for both critical care and community pharmacy. Read more: https://bit.ly/3ReJC2w

Some medications can make it harder to cope with extreme heat. 🌡 We're pleased to see Heal Canada adapt our evidence-informed article on medications & heat waves for the June issue of E3 Advocacy, helping this important information reach even more Canadians (pp. 108–112). 📚 tinyurl.com/4cbun8jf

Perfect: “A scammer who lied to secure 13 NHS management & admin jobs, including at NHS England and NHS Digital, has been jailed for 4 years. Amran Hussain, 40, was sentenced at Maidstone Crown Court on Friday, having pleaded guilty to three counts of fraud by false representation in August 2025.

🚨ICYMI: UBC TI #BestEvidence webinar recording Safe & sound: #Polypharmacy & rational primary care ti.ubc.ca/drugevidence24 Dr. Dee Mangin describes key aspects of primary care in maximizing therapeutic benefit + provides examples/areas of challenge for rational treatment.

Actual professor of genetics Adam Rutherford says 'no he hasn't'. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Biohacker Bryan Johnson says he’s ‘cloned himself as a baby’ to harvest its organs

‘This technology gives us a path to reverse aging,’ says 48-year-old tech entrepreneur

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I’ve begun putting together my brand new blog on frailty and dementia, primarily intended as an educational resource for geriatrics and psychiatry trainees.

BTS Sustainability Toolkit The Toolkit is designed to help healthcare professionals apply the principles of sustainability in both their services and the treatment of their patients. @btsrespiratory.bsky.social www.respiratoryfutures.org.uk/programmes-p...

The updated 2026 ACC Expert Consensus Decision Pathway for the Management of #HFpEF reflects a significant evolution in how HFpEF is understood and treated. Read the full document in #JACC ➡️ https://bit.ly/3RVs4sl #CardioSky #MedSky

💬 Perspective: #GenerativeAI may improve #ClinicalDecisionSupport when it synthesizes decision-relevant patient context, but outputs should remain grounded in curated sources with source attribution and deterministic verification. ja.ma/4pBciPD

Replacing gas stove can help asthmatics as much as some drugs, US experts find

Replacing gas stove can help asthmatics as much as some drugs, US experts find

Team in Ohio finds swapping to electric has ‘very large’ impact, despite study being scaled back by Trump cuts A US study has found a 70% drop in hospital admissions and days off from work or school when people with poorly controlled asthma had their gas stove and hob replaced with electric. Ohio’s publicly owned MetroHealth began the study in December 2024 but funding was terminated early by the incoming Trump administration. It had been designed to investigate if replacing gas cooking improved asthma for 1,200 people living near Cleveland, Ohio. Continue reading...

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Periodic reminder that checking vitamin d level is a waste of time and money academic.oup.com/jcem/article...

Vitamin D for the Prevention of Disease: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline

AbstractBackground. Numerous studies demonstrate associations between serum concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) and a variety of common disorde

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I hear he's going to make regiments fire half their staff and form clusters with their neighbours

Andy Cowper@hpiandycowper.bsky.social · 2w ago

From the Department Of One Must Have A Heart Of Stone Not To Laugh: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The next thing you know, the military will be drinking in the Last Chance Saloon. And then it’ll be ‘modernise or die!’

Woo-hoo! My new @bmj.com article On how to fix health. By enabling physical activity eg active travel + public transport. Discusses #motonormativity, incentives, culture www.bmj.com/content/394/... x @livingstreets.bsky.social @ianwalker.bsky.social @walkwheelcyclet.bsky.social @fsem-uk.bsky.social

Scarlett McNally: The NHS rewarding walking doesn’t go far enough to encourage physical activity

NHS England recently announced plans to launch a new incentive scheme that will reward people who achieve 30 minutes of walking a day, adding up to a “marathon in a month.”1 I see several weaknesses i...

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MHRA approves world's first lower-carbon beclometasone inhalers (Clenil Modulite 100 micrograms & 200 micrograms) for patients with asthma. Uses the next generation propellant HFA-152a. 🌱 Will be available in the UK later in 2026. #Pharmsky #Respiratory www.gov.uk/government/n...

MHRA approves world's first lower-carbon beclometasone inhalers for patients with asthma

The new inhalers use a next-generation propellant designed to reduce environmental impact while maintaining the same established treatment.

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Euan Reid@euanreid.pharmsky.app · 6mo ago

The Transition to Green Respiratory Care in NHS Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #Pharmsky 1/8 Respiratory prescribing in Scotland is facing its biggest shift in a generation. With NHSScotland aiming for net-zero by 2045, how we approach inhaler therapy is evolving to meet the climate emergency. 🧵

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#NephJC #TenPostNephJC FIND-CKD asks: Can we extend nsMRA cardiorenal benefits to the massive population with CKD without diabetes? Let’s FIND out! 🔍 Read the article 👇: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42246672/ 1/10🧵

Around the world, life expectancy is increasing but the gap vs healthspan is widening. That is, more sickspan. The US has the largest morbidity gap. Let that sink in: The US has the largest morbidity gap. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...