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Jenny Scott

@jscottuob.bsky.social
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Academic (pharmacist), CAPC at Bristol Medical School and indep. prescriber Turning Point Connect Wiltshire. Avid harm reductionist & sensible drug policy. Mum to 4 boys. 🐶🐶🐔 🏃🏼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💚

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British Oncology Pharmacy Association @bopa.org.uk · 2h
💊✨ Calling all pharmacists on the Consultant Pharmacist pathway! ✨💊 Join this relaxed forum to: 📂 Talk through your portfolio submission 📊 Discuss evidence for outcomes 🤝 Network with colleagues 🔗 More information: www.bopa.org.uk/credentialing-support-series/
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Dr Richard Ma PhD 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉🕺⚕️🩺🎓 @richard-ma.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
SAPC Sexual and Reproductive Health Research Special Interest Group Online seminar MS Teams Thursday 22nd October 12:30 to 2pm Student presentations: Street sex workers Contraception for trans masc people + one more TBC All welcome. Please register using link forms.office.com/e/KHeefvXXdf
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Wiltshire @wiltshireuk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Charity seeking volunteers to help run social groups for older people #Wiltshire #Salisbury
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Charity seeking volunteers to help run social groups for older people
Volunteers do not need experience as full training and support are provided.
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Jenny Scott @jscottuob.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Lots needs done to support pharmacies to provide needle & syringe programmes in line with guidance and best practice. Lots for commissioners to consider: www.hepctrust.org.uk/publication/...
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OUT OF REACH: Declining Access to Needle and Syringe Programmes and the Threat to Public Health - The Hepatitis C Trust
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Republicans and Democrats find a unifying target: Pharmacy benefit managers
Republicans and Democrats, both patients and politicians, seem united in their disdain for the healthcare companies known as pharmacy benefit managers. Tennessee and Arkansas are regulating them now.
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The Aural Apothecary @auralapothecary.pharmsky.app · 04/10/2026
Did you know that every drug-related death in the UK is carefully investigated? Dr. Caroline Copeland reveals how mortality data helps improve medicine safety and informs policy. It's eye-opening stuff! #medicinesafety #drugpolicy #publichealth #drugdeaths #pharmacology #healthstats #UKhealth
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Matilda Martin @matildamartin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I've spent the last couple of months looking into how Green-run councils are exploring safer drug consumption facilities/rooms and other harm reduction spaces Campaigners and experts argue they could be introduced without a change in the law if arrangements were made with local police forces👇
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Green Councils Fight For Drug Consumption Rooms
The Green Party’s success in English local elections has put fresh impetus behind efforts to follow Scotland in providing safer drug consumption fa...
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Cara Lavan @caralavan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m hosting a screening on 4th November at the Rose and Crown pub on Two mile Hill, Bristol at 7pm. Sign up for a free spot using the QR code below.
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The Pharmaceutical Journal @pharmaj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Our #QuoteoftheWeek is from #CatrionaMatheson, professor in substance use at the University of Stirling, on Scotland’s first drug-checking service opening in Glasgow #ukpharmacy #substanceabuse #addiction buff.ly/yxspXOm
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Scotland’s first drug-checking service to open as drug deaths rise by more than 10%
Scotland’s first local drug-checking service will open in Glasgow in October 2026, allowing people to submit drugs for rapid analysis and receive harm-reduction advice alongside the results. The…
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Ken Seigle @kenseigle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A little history lesson in
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Jenny Scott @jscottuob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Thank you for your talk. Deeply personal, hugely inspiring and complete common sense.
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The Pharmaceutical Journal @pharmaj.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
*Everything you need to know about PrEP provision in community pharmacy* Provision of #PrEP is increasing, but why has there been so little progress on the expansion to provide the drugs via community pharmacy? #communitypharmacy #ukhealthcare #HIV buff.ly/uBCq4Gm
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Everything you need to know about PrEP provision in community pharmacy
Pre-exposure prophylaxis, or ‘PrEP’, for HIV has been shown to be highly effective in several real-world studies. Results from the ‘PrEP Impact Trial’ — one of the world’s largest PrEP studies,…
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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I'm talking at the Royal Institution a week today. There are still some tickets left. Come and find out what you're missing.
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You don't know what you're m ss ng: The hidden data shaping our behaviour | Royal Institution
Mathematician and author Kit Yates returns to the Ri to explore how our understanding of reality is shaped b
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NIHR School for Primary Care Research (SPCR) @nihrspcr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
📣 Applications are now open for the SPCR 3is Enablement Fund! Open to SPCR members, funding is available to support activities that enable: 🔹inclusion in primary care research careers 🔹early career researchers to undertake PPIE 🔹community partnerships More: spcr.nihr.ac.uk/news/involve...
Banner launching new funding opportunity - SPCR Involvement, Inclusion and Impact fund
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Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC), Bristol @capcbristol.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Prof Gene Feder will be speaking at Policy Live 2026 on 10 September 2026 in Westminster. He will be joining a panel to discuss: 'The evidence gap: What it will take to halve violence against women and girls' (15.30-16.15) Register your interest to attend: www.nesta.org.uk/feature/poli... #VAWG
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Policy Live 2026
Exploring policy solutions to some of the biggest challenges faced by the UK
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deprescribing.org @deprescribing.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
August 31st was International Overdose Awareness Day! Benzodiazepines and opioids are among the most common medications involved in medication overdoses worldwide. 🌎 #Deprescribing can help reduce the risk of drug overdose. Learn more about Drug Overdose and spread the word: buff.ly/sSwLnVO
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Exeter Collaboration for Academic Primary Care @apexcomms.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The annual SAPC conference brought together primary care researchers to explore future challenges, innovations and opportunities in a changing healthcare landscape. Read our blog by Dr Mary Carter: tinyurl.com/3kscxp6r #PrimaryCare #GeneralPractice #AcademicPrimaryCare #NIHR @nihrspcr.bsky.social
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PRIMARY CARE DELIVERY THEME - Society for Academic Primary Care conference, by Dr Mary Carter
The theme of this year’s national Society for Academic Primary Care conference was “Leading the future of primary care” and it took place at the University of St Andrews from 24th to 26th June.  St
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Dr Richard Ma PhD 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉🕺⚕️🩺🎓 @richard-ma.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Just #Sheffield to go!!! @tht.org.uk @ukcab.bsky.social @nat.org.uk
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Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC), Bristol @capcbristol.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Colleague @jscottuob.bsky.social highlights the risks of coming off #benzodiazepines too quickly in this @channel4news.bsky.social feature on Gen Z use of anti-anxiety drugs from the dark web. 👀 Watch: www.channel4.com/news/why-gen...
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Why Gen Z are getting anti-anxiety drugs from the dark web
Increasing numbers of young people are turning to the dark web to get hold of anti-anxiety medication - and many of them are unknowingly buying pills laced with a highly potent synthetic opioid called...
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Jenny Scott @jscottuob.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Homelessness is a good example. Thank you as ever for putting it into words that make sense.
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Jenny Scott @jscottuob.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
That could really make a difference if they do front load them that way. I hope....
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Jenny Scott @jscottuob.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Will be interesting to see if they are going to accept people who use drugs & alcohol services or if the primary care crack they often fall into just widens.
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Jenny Scott @jscottuob.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Fantastic city.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Looking forward to going to Australia soon to deliver the Ian Webster Oration at UNSW on why we need a new philosophy of inquiry for researching health systems. Come in person if you're Sydney-based. Watch online if you're not! www.eventbrite.com.au/e/unsw-icfhs...
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UNSW ICFHS Ian Webster Oration 2026
UNSW International Centre for Future Health Systems Ian Webster Oration
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Jenny Scott @jscottuob.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I love what you're doing Barry, looks fantastic. Did you make the museum of medicine in Copenhagen? It's really interesting.
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The Ferret @theferret.scot · 02/08/2026
“If we stick to business as usual and an economy of extraction then we will look back in 20 years filled with regrets”
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Scotland’s wind industry is booming. China and Wall Street are cashing in
An investment vehicle managed by JP Morgan and state-backed firms from France, Norway and China own Scottish wind farms which have paid tens of millions in dividends this decade.
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deprescribing.org @deprescribing.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
🌿 A recent editorial explores the concept of an "Ecoprescription": "Prescribing a medication that has a lower environmental impact while ensuring similar quality and security for the patient." Learn about the environmental benefits for reducing inappropriate #polypharmacy: buff.ly/C3S59jd
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Andrew Mann @amann.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
As a graduation present, I give my PhD students posters based on their research. I have a few examples shown here (Dr. Pa Chia Thao and Dr. Reilly Milburn). These are done by PhD student and artist Isabel Lopez Murillo: analopezmurillo.github.io 🧪🔭⭐🎨
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Chris Salisbury interviewed me for a podcast. medicsvoices.com/trish-greenh...
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Trish Greenhalgh | Champion of Social Science and Medicine - Medics Voices
“… it doesn’t matter who we’re working with, we’ve all got to recognise and…
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Marie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."
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Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) @cbrl.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Thank you to everyone who attended yesterday's lecture at CBRL Amman, titled What Can Jordan’s Bedouin Teach the World About Social Media? delivered by Dr Geoffrey Hughes. We appreciate your presence and engagement, which contributed to an insightful and enriching discussion throughout the evening.
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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I cycled to work the longer way today. At 5.5 miles, that's further than most UK car trips - yet it took me just 22 minutes We urgently need to unblock and enable the millions of short active trips that are being blocked every day because of our collective car dependency. Our health depends on it
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Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC), Bristol @capcbristol.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
How can pharmacy services better support people receiving opioid substitution therapy? @jscottuob.bsky.social & @vic-carlisle.bsky.social discuss in this recent @cppeengland.bsky.social Pharmacy Conversations podcast. 👉 tinyurl.com/4knkezzf #PharmSky #PrimaryCare #Opioids @swpharmres.bsky.social
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Voice of the voiceless w/ Vicky Carlisle and Jenny Scott
Podcast Episode · CPPE: Pharmacy Conversations · June 18 · 1h 2m
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Jenny Scott @jscottuob.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
My colleague Vicky and I did a podcast with CPPE about stigma in pharmacies towards people who use drugs and how we can get rid of it. Interviewed by a former student of mine! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...
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Voice of the voiceless w/ Vicky Carlisle and Jenny Scott
Podcast Episode · CPPE: Pharmacy Conversations · June 18 · 1h 2m
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Mental Health Research Incubator @mhrincubator.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Calling all #mentalhealth researchers - the UK GOV are holding a call for evidence to inform the mental health strategy for England. If you're a researcher, consider submitting your findings. 📅 July 10 2026, 11.59pm buff.ly/wNRvkw1
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Jenny Scott @jscottuob.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Climbed Arthur's Seat for the first time today. Gorgeous views of the beautiful city of Edinburgh and beyond.
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Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience @kingsioppn.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
We're offering a fully-funded PhD studentship as part of the ORCHID project to investigate and address the critical gap in understanding how digital experiences affect #MentalHealth and development during childhood. Learn more and apply before 10 July: www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin...
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Three year-PhD (Full-time) opportunity with the Online Risk and Resilience in Children’s Daily Lives (ORCHID) project | King's College London
We are looking for a PhD candidate to investigate children’s digital activities, associated psychological reactions, and links to mental health as part of ORCHID.
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Mental Health Research Incubator @mhrincubator.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Are you a #mentalhealth #researcher keen to improve your methodological skills? The next webinar in the Big Methods Exchange series by @nhigsonsweeney.bsky.social focuses on netnography. 🗓️ 15 June 2026 🕰️ 1pm - 2pm 📍 Online Sign up to this webinar now! buff.ly/wjJg7lD
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Guy Felicella @guyfelicella.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
A friend of mine, a single mom of two boys, is facing the possibility of losing her home if she can't pay her rent by tomorrow. If you're able to help, please reach out. Every little bit helps. If you can't donate, a share would be greatly appreciated. ❤️ gofund.me/f8a5eb20a
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Donate to Last Minute, organized by Taija McLuckie
My name is Taija, and I’m a single mom of two boys living in the Comox Valley. I work with the BC Centre on… Taija McLuckie needs your support for Last Minute
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CADeN | ReCAD @caden-recad.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
💊 The American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology created a task force of experts in clinical psychopharmacology to develop the 1st international recommendations for deRXing stimulants in adults with ADHD, filling a significant gap in scientific literature on the topic: tinyurl.com/579basy6
consensus statement for ADHD
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Mental Health Research Incubator @mhrincubator.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Finished your fellowship but haven't had the chance to finish writing up your mental health and/or addiction research paper? Our fully-funded retreat is for you! Focus on your paper and meet other researchers. Learn more below 👇 buff.ly/ZWozQwt
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Jenny Scott @jscottuob.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Some of the artwork seen today on #Upfest2026 trail in Bedminster, Bristol.
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Dan Lewer @danlewer.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
We looked at data on social media and mental health among 12-15-year-olds using data from Born In Bradford. I wrote a blog reflecting on the correlation between social media use and mental health, and our plans for The IRL Trial later this year. www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-o...
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From observation to intervention: why the social media causality debate is distracting us from more policy-focused research
Born in Bradford participants spend hours each day on social media - just like teenagers everywhere - and the heaviest users tend to be less happy. Scientists have focused on the debate about correlat...
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Minna Eii @minnaeii.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Pharmacy’s role in the climate change: Advancing sustainable practice and access to medicines us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Society for the Study of Addiction @addiction-ssa.org · 08/05/2026
Dr Amy Peacock and Dr Monica Barratt discuss the availability of nitazenes via cryptomarkets and surface web shops: shows.acast.com/addiction-au... @addictionjournal.bsky.social
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