Today we had an ICU nurse come to the pharmacy. She wanted a particular type of dressing she could put on her neck as the face masks were rubbing badly. the dressings were Β£40, we gave her what she needed for free
Nurses shouldnβt have to buy their own ppe material
#covid19uk
All this hate for
#meganandharry
, but I still donβt understand what exactly theyβve done wrong?
Meanwhile Prince Andrew refuses to answer questions to the FBI on people trafficking and sexual abuse but heβs still a βjolly good chapβ. Doesnβt get villified in the press every day
Just driven through an Asian neighbourhood, and itβs the quietest Iβve ever known it. No one is out (but me!)
letβs be clear that the rules were followed even with only 2 hours notice last night. Letβs not scapegoat minority communities when there is a 2nd spike
Busy day in pharmacy today, dealing with end of life prescriptions, NHS 111 emergency referrals, emergency contraception, walk in queries and complicated discharges that have gone wrong somehow.
As a pharmacist I know I can safely and responsibly manage antibiotic use
Annoying !!!!
Teams message with someone this morning. When I donβt know you donβt call me βMoβ, and if you did know me you would never call me βMoβ!
#SayMyName
@GeorgeDobell1
Utterly shocking that repeatedly being called βPakiβ in your workplace is deemed acceptable banter, alongside stereotypical comments about shop owners
This in 2021!
@ECB_cricket
this is not acceptable
Well the news is out and I can confirm that after 14 years at NHS Digital, and 23 years in the NHS I will be leaving to take up a senior role in the private sector later this summer. Still in digital health but a huge challenge in a new environment.
My reasons for leaving are
Wowsers, some GPs have a really low and vicious opinion of community pharmacists.
Iβm sure if community pharmacists started a thread on what they see coming the other way from GP it would make for a very amusing presentation by Mr Dispenser!
(Remember him?)
We have 2 pharmacists working today and the staff are loving having a 2 pharmacist model in the community pharmacy.
Doing a vaccine clinic together with prescriptions, NHS111 referrals and managing queries
If we had more consistent commissioning we could do this all the time
I'm asking those who love the outdoors to post a picture. A picture that you took. Just a pic. No description. The goal is to regain peace and harmony without negativity. Please copy the text, put a picture on your page, and let's look at these beautiful pictures.
Here's mine.
Iβm delighted to announce that I have started a new role as Non Executive Director at
@BTHFT
alongside my role at
@NHSDigital
Excited to bring together my passion for patient care, technology and diversity to the Board
Wow. Very public spirited of
@GreggsOfficial
who have handed their extra milk to the pharmacy to deliver to isolating patients as the pharmacy delivers medicines
#covid19UK
#bestOfBritain
Iβve completed my maiden marathon, one of the hardest physical things Iβve done in my life - sub 3 hours 30 and very proud of myself!
From 5kmβs to a marathon
#pharmacyActive
#ukrunchat
Charming. Just been verbally abused and shouted at in the pharmacy.
Some people are so rude and have a sense of entitlement so deep they must be made of the stuff
Young man with all the attitude and felt like he couldβve become physical. Left me a bit shaken if Iβm honest
Having a session with a trained facilitator β¦ and he keeps calling me Mo!
Itβs really winding me up. My name is Mohammed. I donβt know you and Iβve never given you permission to call me Mo!
I have to say a huge thank you to
@LNER
staff on the train this evening. I met a good friend of mine on the train and we were both fasting.
I asked if I could order some food for 6pm. The staff were superb. They brought us tea and food on time so my friend and I could both
I know some may say they donβt have the time to view SCRs....
But in the last 2 hours I have viewed four SCRs to help resolve 2 patient queries, 1 NUMSAS, 1 MUR
Access takes seconds, viewing saves hours and days in resolving the query
@rpharms
@NPA1921
@NHSDigital
Instead of increasing prescription fee in April, can we not just abolish it for the duration of
#covid19uk
?
The extra cost, the fines, the cash handling, the sending of tokens from across the country to be handled by others who scan them
Letβs just stop
@MattHancock
@rpharms
Iβve had my second vaccine, managed to arrange it so had it together with my dad
Please get vaccinated, take the first vaccine youβre offered. I can leave at 12:15
I encourage everyone to
#GetVaccinated
, especially BAME communities and pharmacy where vaccination rates are lower
I just canβt believe my own splits. I doubt Iβll ever run a better race than that. Less than a minute difference across the 1st and 2nd half across 42.2km.
Overjoyed with the result and all the incredible support on and off the course. Thank you so much!
Bye bye
@NHSDigital
Loved working for NHS Digital over the last 12 years, working with great people and making a real difference to health
My own reflections:
Delivering Electronic prescription service, Summary care records and NHS mail across England
βCould you please wear this free mask in the pharmacy sir?β
βItβs not mandatory for me, only for youβ
βItβs mandatory in health care settings and applies to allβ
βHow dare you speak to me like that! you canβt force me to wear a mask!β
Storms out.
Welcome to the culture wars
I must have attended dozens, maybe a 100 conferences in my life and this is the first time I have ever seen an all female and women of colour panel at an event
We see manels all the time. They are the default
Bravo
#DHSS19
Had an interview for a Trustee role last week, speaking candidly I told them they were βso whiteβ as an organisation, to an all white panel
Dear reader, I got the role!
Very pleased, and now need to work with them to better reflect and engage with the communities we serve
In the modern non-paper Electronic prescription service NHS, weβve just had 1,200 prescription tokens delivered that we will be printing on to dispense prescriptions
Really need to design out the paper and not just at the GP end
@clashreport
Why are you destroying monuments when the PLO had nothing to do with Hamas. It shows the lie that this is just about Hamas. Itβs a brutal occupation.
Very pleased to be home with the the little guy, brilliant care and support from
@LeedsHospitals
, pulled out all the stops.
I canβt thank everyone or respond to all the well wishes weβve had individually on
@Twitter
. Thank you. It was very touching
#Ramadan
Mubarak to all observing and celebrating.
For those working alongside or interacting with those fasting thank you for your understanding and patience
@DalrympleWill
@BellaWallerstei
I find it really weird the people with Ukrainian flags seem so anti Palestinian. Itβs just weird.
Someone explain it to me
Last
@TheGPhC
Council meeting for me after 2 terms. Fixed term lengths are good governance, Iβm looking at you professional leadership body
Itβs been an honour and a privilege to serve on Council
Good luck to the 5 new Council members, to be announced next month
I really donβt like all these attacks on General Practice, theyβve done an amazing job through an unprecedented health crisis
As a pharmacist I stand with my General Practice colleagues, we are all one team
@TheBMA
@rpharms
Good Friday tomorrow, and like many in the NHS Iβll be working too
letβs see what the day brings. We wouldnβt ordinarily open on Good Friday but
@NHSEngland
has asked pharmacies to open to support in this moment of national crisis
When youβre watching these scenes from the
#Capitol
remember that
#GeorgeFloyd
was killed over an allegation of a forged $20 bill
White people in America can storm the Capitol
Iβve just managed to clear yesterdayβs prescriptions and owings - and yes itβs just gone 18:00
Thatβs how mad itβs been in pharmacies this week
#covid19
#covid19pharmacy
Desi tweeps, do you make this dish? Made from natural yoghurt lassi. It has a delicious sour taste!
best with fresh pakoras that are broken up and mixed in as dumplings
#Karhi
You canβt buy this at a restaurant, classic home style cooking
Care home referral for multiple patients with normal pharmacy closed, and their branch pharmacy donβt want to deal with it but referred them to us with a print out!
Dozens of items. Nightmare to deal with, but weβll sort it. Remember itβs the independent pharmacies that sort it
When you try using
#AllLivesMatter
in response to
#BlackLivesMatter
youβre missing the point.
Youβre not an ally, youβre diminishing the point that
#BlackLivesMatter
is a response to structural, systemic and often overlooked discrimination against people of colour
I donβt think Iβve ever seen the unanimous disapproval across all pharmacy representative bodies against the regulator before
This is the GPhC decision to prevent overseas students sitting the exam from abroad, after first allowing it.
The exam is in March
#provreg
#prereg
At yesterdays vaccine clinic we had a pregnant lady attending with her partner. They had come for the vaccine but were still uncertain. We had a good chat and talked through their concerns and the benefits of vaccination. They were both happy to have the vaccine at the end
After
#roseanne
partly blamed her controversial tweets on taking the sedative, drug-maker Sanofi released a statement
βWhile all pharmaceutical treatments have side effects, racism is not a known side effect of any Sanofi medication.β ππΌ
#ramadanmubarak
The holy month of Ramadan starts tomorrow, may it be a blessed one if youβre taking part and thank you for your understanding if youβre living or working with those who are fasting
Hello, My name is Mohammed Hussain. I have been a pharmacist for 25 years, working in the NHS for 23 of those years.
I Have worked in Regulatory, Technology, Academic and front line practice roles. Last year I left the NHS to join Viatris to establish a new Healthcare
Got the medal!
Epic, brutal and relentless - it lived up to its billing
Survived a thunder storm and my team were drafting my obituary - but the God of Thunder was on my side and I made it back with a good time too!
@Endure24uk
@BTHFTCharity
#EidMubarak
to everyone marking the day tomorrow. I hope itβs a wonderful day with your loved ones and lovely food
Ah, food in the day light hours, what a novelty that will be!
Looks like a great event. 9 speakers, 0 BAME, in a profession that is 45% BAME
Need to try harder. If youβre invited on to a panel ask who else is on the panel, & if itβs not a diverse panel, walk away
I had this exact conversation today about a panel Iβve been asked to join
I know we now have rules on attending a pharmacy with a face covering, can we extend this rule to include a top?
so many pasty men coming in π
Keep it covered in the pharmacy please β
remember when Italy hit 900+ deaths a day and people said thatβs because theyβre a touchy feely culture, they have more older people, they lost control early on, weβre not Italy
Weβve now passed the Italian peak deaths per day. U.K. exceptionalism needs to end
#covid19uk
Today has been a terrible day. It was bad long before the devastating news of the passing of a friend, he was too young. Iβm sorry to my team that I had to take some time to compose myself at this afternoonβs meeting
I had to run tonight
Iβve been very impressed by
@rpharms
throughout this
#covid19uk
crisis
As our professional body they have been flying the flag for pharmacy and providing resources and support for the profession
Proud to be a Fellow of the
@rpharms
at this time ππ½ππ½ππ½
@RSharmaPharma
Everyone says they admire
#Whistleblowers
, but no one helps them and most try and stop them. Once the story is out, they are lauded for their courage, but by then the whistleblower has been damaged
This is just awful to hear. As a profession we have comprehensively failed this cohort
This is not an echo chamber or a band wagon, this is real harm. The real echo chamber appears to be at the very top, where people dismiss social media feedback
If, as reported, A-level exams are cancelled again this year, it makes holding in person prereg exams in exam centres out of touch
Not to mention that
#provreg
have been doing the job in the most difficult circumstances imaginable.
They need accolades & support, not an exam
Itβs stupid and embarrassing that weβve been able to practice as fully qualified pharmacists for 5 full months now, and an exam is still deemed necessary to prove we can...practice as fully qualified pharmacists
Raised with
@rpharms
the annual fellows dinner clashed with
#Ramadan
last year, & promised it would be fixed, the decision has been made that it will be in Ramadan again
Inclusion?
Very disappointed. Decisions are made by those in the room. This is why diversity matters
Have a nurse and GP (husband and wife) in the family. Both have been unwell this last week with a temp and cough. Theyβve been self isolating but donβt know if they actually have
#Covid19
This is the problem if we donβt test anyone with symptoms. A bigger issue for HCPs.
Because the announcement from the PM has come so late (again), my kids school have told parents that they cannot have any online lessons ready tomorrow, but will have them ready for Wednesday
Schools and teachers are unsung heroes in this viral purgatory
Happy
#WorldPharmacistDay
The most accessible healthcare professional. Take advice from a pharmacist, youβll be taking good advice
Notes:
not all pharmacists wear white coats
Not all pharmacists are clean shaven π