Graham Stretch
@grahamstretch.pharmsky.app
Pharmacist▫️President @PCPA_org▫️Chief Pharmacist-Partner Argyle GP▫️Lead Pharmacist, Care Homes, ECP▫️E&T▫️Research▫️PhD MAPharmT FRPharmS▫️🚴🏻♂️ #PharmSky
A huge tribute to all my wonderful friends and colleagues on this #WorldPharmacistDay 2025 💚
September 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
A huge tribute to all my wonderful friends and colleagues on this #WorldPharmacistDay 2025 💚
Reposted by Graham Stretch
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
National Pharmacy Care Homes Faculty (NPCHF)
www.pcpa.org.uk/articles/pcp...
#ThinkPharmacist
September 25, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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
National Pharmacy Care Homes Faculty (NPCHF)
www.pcpa.org.uk/articles/pcp...
#ThinkPharmacist
Reposted by Graham Stretch
Congrats Abbie, our PCPA Pharmacy Technician Chair on winning APTUK Advancing Cinical Practice Award tonight
@aptuk.bsky.social @abbiestirling.bsky.social @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app
@aptuk.bsky.social @abbiestirling.bsky.social @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app
September 20, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Congrats Abbie, our PCPA Pharmacy Technician Chair on winning APTUK Advancing Cinical Practice Award tonight
@aptuk.bsky.social @abbiestirling.bsky.social @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app
@aptuk.bsky.social @abbiestirling.bsky.social @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
Reposted by Graham Stretch
🎉 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
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
July 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
🎉 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
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
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
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
June 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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
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
❗️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
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
June 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
❗️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
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
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
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
June 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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
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
Reposted by Graham Stretch
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...
"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...
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...
jamanetwork.com
June 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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...
"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...
💡 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
💻 24 June
🤝 Fantastic line-up of Speakers
📃 Agenda: events.cogora.com/gp-pharmacy-...
Join us!
@thepharmacistnews.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
💡 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
💻 24 June
🤝 Fantastic line-up of Speakers
📃 Agenda: events.cogora.com/gp-pharmacy-...
Join us!
@thepharmacistnews.bsky.social
Reposted by Graham Stretch
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
19. The importance of generalism in pharmacy with Helen Kilminster
Talking Meds - A PrescQIPP podcast · Episode
pcpa.co
May 30, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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
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
@pcpa-uk.bsky.social @lauraangus.pharmsky.app
May 24, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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
@pcpa-uk.bsky.social @lauraangus.pharmsky.app
The venues for the GPhC @gphc.bsky.social registration assessment and further details have been released www.pharmacyregulation.org/students-and...
May 19, 2025 at 10:42 PM
The venues for the GPhC @gphc.bsky.social registration assessment and further details have been released www.pharmacyregulation.org/students-and...
Reposted by Graham Stretch
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
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
May 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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
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
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👇🏻
youtu.be/v4O27X2pAyQ?...
With thanks to Reckitt for the opportunity to explore and highlight this under recognised area
🧵 1/2👇🏻
May 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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👇🏻
youtu.be/v4O27X2pAyQ?...
With thanks to Reckitt for the opportunity to explore and highlight this under recognised area
🧵 1/2👇🏻
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
@cpcongress.bsky.social
🗓️ 10 May 2025
🕰️ 13:00 - 13:30
📍 Integrated & Primary Care Theatre
#cpcongress #PCPAevents
@pcpa-uk.bsky.social @noma1.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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
@cpcongress.bsky.social
🗓️ 10 May 2025
🕰️ 13:00 - 13:30
📍 Integrated & Primary Care Theatre
#cpcongress #PCPAevents
@pcpa-uk.bsky.social @noma1.bsky.social
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
May 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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
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
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
May 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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
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
Reposted by Graham Stretch
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
Listen@https://www.pcpa.org.uk/resources/pcpa-spotlight-podcast-prof-mahendra-patel-obe
April 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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
Listen@https://www.pcpa.org.uk/resources/pcpa-spotlight-podcast-prof-mahendra-patel-obe
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?
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?
April 2, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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?
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?
Reposted by Graham Stretch
Eid Mubarak to all members, friends & colleagues celebrating - warmest wishes from all at PCPA
#EidAlFitr #EidAlFitr2025 #Eid2025 #EidMubarak #Eidmubarak2025 #EidUlFitr #EidulFitr2025
#EidAlFitr #EidAlFitr2025 #Eid2025 #EidMubarak #Eidmubarak2025 #EidUlFitr #EidulFitr2025
March 30, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Eid Mubarak to all members, friends & colleagues celebrating - warmest wishes from all at PCPA
#EidAlFitr #EidAlFitr2025 #Eid2025 #EidMubarak #Eidmubarak2025 #EidUlFitr #EidulFitr2025
#EidAlFitr #EidAlFitr2025 #Eid2025 #EidMubarak #Eidmubarak2025 #EidUlFitr #EidulFitr2025
Reposted by Graham Stretch
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
from all at PCPA
#mothersday2025
March 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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
from all at PCPA
#mothersday2025
Come on Scotland!!! 🏴 🏉
March 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Come on Scotland!!! 🏴 🏉
March 13, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Reposted by Graham Stretch
Royal College of Pharmacy
VOTE YES ✅ TODAY
For support, development and
engagement - For improved career progression and greater professional satisfaction
VOTE YES ✅ TODAY
For support, development and
engagement - For improved career progression and greater professional satisfaction
March 13, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Royal College of Pharmacy
VOTE YES ✅ TODAY
For support, development and
engagement - For improved career progression and greater professional satisfaction
VOTE YES ✅ TODAY
For support, development and
engagement - For improved career progression and greater professional satisfaction