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Graham Stretch

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Pharmacist▫️President @PCPA_org▫️Chief Pharmacist-Partner Argyle GP▫️Lead Pharmacist, Care Homes, ECP▫️E&T▫️Research▫️PhD MAPharmT FRCPharm▫️🚴🏻‍♂️ #PharmSky

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Primary Care Pharmacy Association @pcpa-uk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy World Pharmacist's Day ... Thank you to all members and colleague pharmacists for the work and innovation you lead every day #WPD #WorldPharmacistsDay #WPD2026
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Jane Shanahan @janeshanahan.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
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...
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PCPA ACB Toolkit
Reducing the risks associated with anticholinergic medicines, this practical toolkit brings together the key resources, guidance, and tools.
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Rhys Williams @rhyswmpharm.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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
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Primary Care Pharmacy Association @pcpa-uk.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Eid Mubarak to all members, friends & colleagues celebrating - warmest wishes from all at PCPA #EidAlFitr #EidAlFitr2026 #Eid2026 #EidMubarak #Eidmubarak2026 #EidUlFitr #EidulFitr2026
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Primary Care Pharmacy Association @pcpa-uk.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
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
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UK Government Petitions @petitions.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
New petition: "Make Anticholinergic Burden scores mandatory for all over 65" Deadline 5 June 2026, created by Nick Sterling #NewPetition
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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.
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Vivensa Foundation @vivensa.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
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
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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.
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Helen Hương Kilminster @hpillminster.pharmsky.app · 20/11/2025
@pcpa-uk.bsky.social ANNUAL LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE Welcome address by Minesh Parbat & UKPPLAB Update from @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app #PCPAevents
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Graham Stretch @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app · 25/09/2025
A huge tribute to all my wonderful friends and colleagues on this #WorldPharmacistDay 2025 💚
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National Pharmacy Care Home Faculty @npchf.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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
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Primary Care Pharmacy Association @pcpa-uk.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Congrats Abbie, our PCPA Pharmacy Technician Chair on winning APTUK Advancing Cinical Practice Award tonight @aptuk.bsky.social @abbiestirling.bsky.social @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Motherfucking wind farms…
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Helen Hương Kilminster @hpillminster.pharmsky.app · 02/07/2025
🎉 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
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Graham Stretch @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app · 23/06/2025
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
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Graham Stretch @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app · 17/06/2025
❗️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
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Graham Stretch @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app · 09/06/2025
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
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Julian Winn @winn-on-health.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
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...
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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...
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Graham Stretch @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app · 03/06/2025
💡 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
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Graham Stretch @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app · 31/05/2025
Part of my postdoc was on Olive 🫒 Oil’s health giving properties so I’d happily collaborate - who wants to sponsor our work? @cathedralcity.bsky.social ?
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Graham Stretch @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app · 31/05/2025
I feel cheese has a great benefit vs risk ratio - indeed should we be able to prescribe cheese in preference to MAOIs for mood disorders - are there head to head clinical trials? Although blinding a Gorgonzola vs Phenelzine trial would be a challenge (Checked openprescribing 373 items 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 March 25)
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Robin Conibere @pharmrj.pharmsky.app · 30/05/2025
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
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19. The importance of generalism in pharmacy with Helen Kilminster
Talking Meds - A PrescQIPP podcast · Episode
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Graham Stretch @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app · 27/05/2025
Managing to keep mine under 6 figures for a while now with tenacity and long hours…
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Graham Stretch @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app · 24/05/2025
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
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Graham Stretch @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app · 19/05/2025
The venues for the GPhC @gphc.bsky.social registration assessment and further details have been released www.pharmacyregulation.org/students-and...
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PrescQIPP CIC @prescqipp.info · 15/05/2025
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
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Graham Stretch @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app · 11/05/2025
Hero of mine, Ealing boy. Went to my eldest school. (More accurately Acton) Very jealous
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Graham Stretch @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app · 11/05/2025
My commitment to equity: Through education & proactive patient care, I aim to foster a culture of awareness & equity in pain management. By promoting regular patient reviews, we can help close the gender pain gap & provide compassionate, unbiased care. www.hcp.nurofen.co.uk/static/see-m...
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Graham Stretch @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app · 11/05/2025
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👇🏻
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Graham Stretch @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app · 10/05/2025
I have hair back
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Graham Stretch @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app · 08/05/2025
Can confirm
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Graham Stretch @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app · 08/05/2025
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
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Graham Stretch @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app · 08/05/2025
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
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Graham Stretch @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app · 07/05/2025
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
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Graham Stretch @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app · 06/05/2025
I think I missed my vocation
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Graham Stretch @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app · 06/05/2025
@hpillminster.pharmsky.app you have to find Jammy Dodger kits
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Primary Care Pharmacy Association @pcpa-uk.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
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
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Graham Stretch @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app · 02/04/2025
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?
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Primary Care Pharmacy Association @pcpa-uk.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Eid Mubarak to all members, friends & colleagues celebrating - warmest wishes from all at PCPA #EidAlFitr #EidAlFitr2025 #Eid2025 #EidMubarak  #Eidmubarak2025 #EidUlFitr #EidulFitr2025
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Primary Care Pharmacy Association @pcpa-uk.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
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
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Graham Stretch @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app · 23/03/2025
All the essential food groups there @pharmrj.pharmsky.app Do ribs and wedges count? #pharmfoods
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Graham Stretch @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app · 22/03/2025
It’s tyranny I tell you
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Graham Stretch @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app · 15/03/2025
Channeling some Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 culture here… 🤞
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Graham Stretch @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app · 15/03/2025
Is this the 13th century “Auld Alliance 🇫🇷 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ” reanimated?
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Graham Stretch @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app · 15/03/2025
I was hoping the Scotland team took your original advise, so kept quiet (for once) 😂
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Graham Stretch @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app · 15/03/2025
I’ve opened my best malt in the spirit of Anglo-Scottish brotherhood
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Graham Stretch @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app · 15/03/2025
My neighbours seemed particularly conflicted when I spoke to them just now 😅
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Graham Stretch @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app · 15/03/2025
I have faith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 in Scotland to help their English friends 😂
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Graham Stretch @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app · 15/03/2025
Come on Scotland!!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏉
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Graham Stretch @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app · 13/03/2025
✅ Vote Now - for a Royal Colllege of Pharmacy Link : ow.ly/ZItz50Vh4xc
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Primary Care Pharmacy Association @pcpa-uk.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Royal College of Pharmacy VOTE YES ✅ TODAY For support, development and engagement - For improved career progression and greater professional satisfaction
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