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Alison Strath

@alisonstrath.bsky.social
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Chief Pharmaceutical Officer for Scotland @scotgovhealth Emeritus Professor @RGUpharmacy supporter of @dundeeunitedfc

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College of Mental Health Pharmacy @cmhpcommunity.pharmsky.app · 05/12/2024
Check out the award winning abstracts presented at the 14th International @cmhpcommunity.bsky.social conference in Glasgow, UK, on 11th and 12th October 2024 published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
New Lancet paper 'The cost of not investing in the first 1000 days'. Cites our Cochrane review on preschool-based feeding programmes in socio-economically deprived settings. FEED STARVING CHILDREN in a timely way. Later (when they're older) may be too late. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 🧪
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The cost of not investing in the next 1000 days: implications for policy and practice
Building on the evidence from the first paper in this Series highlighting the fundamental importance of healthy and nurturing environments for children's growth and development in the next 1000 days (...
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Karen Shuker @karenpharm.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
For pharmacists interested in credentialing as an advanced mental health pharmacist check out the joint RPS @cmhpcommunity.bsky.social webinar #PharmSky www.rpharms.com/resources/we...
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Advanced Pharmacist Mental Health Curriculum
This follow-on webinar will cover specifics and practicalities for candidates who are undertaking the mental health or critical care curricula
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Alison Strath @alisonstrath.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
My UK chief pharmaceutical officers colleagues & I have provided advice to help pharmacy professionals wanting to take part in the debate on assisted dying. This follows similar advice recently issued to doctors and nurses: www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Assisted dying bill debate: advice to pharmacy professionals
The UK chief pharmaceutical officers have given advice to help pharmacists and pharmacy technicians wanting to take part in the assisted dying debate.
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Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The world has already eradicated smallpox. Polio is the next disease we could eradicate. Here's how we got to where we are now, mostly thanks to the polio vaccine. From our work on Polio: ourworldindata.org/polio
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The expansion of GLP-1 drug efficacy evidence in 2024, a concise review by Daniel Drucker, a pioneer of the field nature.com/articles/s41...
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Expanding applications of therapies based on GLP1 - Nature Reviews Endocrinology
The evidence base in support of the use of medicines based on glucagon-like peptide 1 beyond glucose control and weight loss was substantially bolstered in 2024, as clinical trial data report benefits...
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Chris Banks @banks.ac · 21/11/2024
Finally! 🎉 Our last paper on the early dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron outbreak in Scotland is now published in Epidemics! Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ep... #SARSCoV2 #Omicron #PublicHealth #IDSky #EpiSky
Modelling plausible scenarios for the Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant from early-stage surveillance. Epidemics 2024.
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Chris Banks @banks.ac · 21/11/2024
For me the best key insight of this paper was that we could take an existing large and complex model and fit it, using relatively simple means, to a new and emerging situation. It worked well and gave rapid insight into the emerging variant outbreak. #IDModelling
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Stephan Geering @stephangeering.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Great advice on public speaking
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Clare Morrison @clareupnorth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
This week we published a report about what the public in Scotland want from #NHS reform and how they want to be involved in decisions about their healthcare: www.hisengage.scot/informing-po... #HealthcareImprovementScotland
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Alison Strath @alisonstrath.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I decided to use my first post to promote the beautiful #Kimono exhibition at the #Dundee V&A
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