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Sarah Jones
@sarahjpharm.pharmsky.app
Mental Health Pharmacist, UK | PhD student (Bristol) and Lecturer (Bath) but here to share own views

Interests inc: Shared Decision Making; psychotropic deprescribing; Advanced Practice and the South West Pharmacy Research Network #SWPRN
In my view, this cuts to the heart of many of the problems with how the NHS now runs. Benefits of continuity of care are hard to prove in research studies (although I know there are some) but not everything important can be easily measured.
When you're living with a chronic condition, continuity of care helps to contain anxiety- when you know there'll be a reassuring response in the event of inevitable flare ups. The ongoing relationship IS the intervention.

Services can't offer this anymore, & there's increased anxiety throughout.
November 25, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Brilliant opportunity to get onto the research ladder with your MH pharmacy related ideas. @cmhpcommunity.pharmsky.app @pharmacyresearchuk.bsky.social
Applications are now open! Go to pharmacyresearchuk.org/for-research... to find out more and all the info on how to apply.
November 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
#PharmSky UK pharmacists pls consider taking part in this survey on #AdvancedPractice

You'd be supporting my MPharm4 students and increasing understanding of an important topic.

Could opinion leaders like @pharmrj.pharmsky.app @hpillminster.pharmsky.app and @pharmacistdaz.uk help spread the word?
Happy #AdvancingPractice2025 week.

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It's the perfect time to launch the survey by my MPharm4 project students. They're investigating factors that help and hinder pharmacists to achieve #AdvancedPractice recognition.

Read more in this thread or go straight to the survey: tinyurl.com/572cwhya
November 17, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I don't know that she is more powerful, but she has a power he does not have.

I adore Mike and Alison as a couple in BBC Ghosts. So loving, supportive and real. And I think it is abundantly clear he adores her. 💕
November 15, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Happy #AdvancingPractice2025 week.

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It's the perfect time to launch the survey by my MPharm4 project students. They're investigating factors that help and hinder pharmacists to achieve #AdvancedPractice recognition.

Read more in this thread or go straight to the survey: tinyurl.com/572cwhya
November 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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📣Your voice matters in our research!

Whether you're a patient, carer, young person, community member - we're looking for new members of our Public Advisory Group. You'll help shape our research.

Register your interest:
www.bristolbrc.nihr.ac.uk/PublicAdviso...
October 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Hi, I'm v new to bsky. I'm a PhD student focusing on harm in UK mental health services, & I would like to hear about your experiences of harm in services between 2010-2025. (Mental health services includes NHS, charities, companies, private therapists & other orgs) 1/7 tinyurl.com/yt2ydvxx
October 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
(1/2) My MPharm4 students are doing a project on pharmacists' experiences of #AdvancedPractice credentialling. We are looking for focus group participants who have achieved recognition under @rpharms.com Core Advanced credentialling or @england.nhs.uk Centre for Advancing Practice route (or both!)
October 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I did my best to channel the skills of @thementalelf.bsky.social at the @swpharmres.bsky.social Innovation Day for those who couldn't make it in person. I don't think I was up to their excellent standards, but if you search #SWPRN25 you should be able to get a taster of the day.

#PharmacyResearch
And we're off! Matthew Jones (network chair) welcomes us to the day, reminds us how far we have come in our first three years and celebrates our successes.

#SWPRN25
October 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Only 19.8% of pharmacists reported confidence across all outcomes that their current practice aligns to the described level in the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Core Advanced Curriculum.

Read the full article in #IJPP:

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ijpp...
October 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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What a fantastic day at the #SWPRN25 network Innovation Day yesterday. A brilliant range of #PharmacyResearch talks, workshops, posters and networking opportunities.

Huge thanks to the organising committee, our speakers, poster presenters, workshop leaders and attendees.

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October 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
@capcbristol.bsky.social was well represented at the @swpharmres.bsky.social Innovation Day yesterday with the IMPPP and RAPID IMMUNE TEST studies both being discussed in the morning presentations. It was also great to share some early reflections from my PhD work in the poster session.
October 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Good morning, the kids have been dispatched to school and given instructions on how to get the dinner cooking when they get home so I'm on my way to Bristol.

Looking forward to meeting lots of other @swpharmres.bsky.social members today #SWPRN25
October 21, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Unpaywalled for the next couple of hours: my latest column, which looks at why Labour’s health policy thinking is so remarkably bad. www.healthpolicyinsight.com/cowpers-cut-...
Cowper’s Cut 398: Only really bad ideas can save us now
My variations on the theme of Labour’s clue-deficit on health policy and politics are, alas, with us yet again this week. Sorry, innit. I’ll stop writing about it as soon as it stops being true. In ...
www.healthpolicyinsight.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Looking forward to the 2025 @swpharmres.bsky.social Innovation Day in Bristol tomorrow!

My poster is printed, and I have SWPRN pin badges to give out. Come and find me during the breaks to get your hands on one and help spread the word about the network.

#PharmacyResearch #SWPRN25
October 20, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Our website is back up and running. Apologies for the inconvenience caused.
Our website is currently offline. Thank you for your patience whilst we work on getting it back. You can reach us here or if you have any course or membership enquiries you call our lovely admin team on 01489668333 (during usual office hours).
October 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Who’d have thought that politicians and their client journalists demonising people with mental health issues on a daily basis would have negative consequences?

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘Alarming rise’ in mental health stigma in England, research shows
One in 10 people unwilling to live next to someone who has been mentally ill even if they have recovered, Mind reports
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I've supported this book for a long time, partly because nothing shook my emotional world in the way motherhood did and I really wanted to read the story @laurarichmond.bsky.social had to tell.

Waterstones is offering 25% off right now for pre-orders, why not pop it in your basket?

#MentalHealth
October 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Happy #WorldMentalHealthDay 💚

👋 Hello in particular to all my @cmhpcommunity.pharmsky.app friends at #CMHP25 in Liverpool

Sad not to be with you but I'll be following along as much as possible thanks to @thementalelf.bsky.social
Excited to be reporting live from the 15th Annual International Psychiatric Pharmacy Conference in Liverpool, 10–11 Oct! 🎉

The programme covers everything from menopause & mental health to climate distress, trauma-informed care, and health equality.

🧵 #CMHP25 @cmhpcommunity.pharmsky.app
October 10, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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💊Community pharmacists in Scotland - please consider participating in an interview with my #PhD student.💊

No specialist knowledge of depression is required: it is your opinions & perceptions that matter. Thank you.

#CommunityPharmacy #Pharmacist #Scotland #research #depression

See QR code ⬇️
October 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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It shouldn't need to be said, but your value as a fellow human being is not whether you are financially productive or whether you avoid claiming benefits. Image created by @ritb.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Happy #WorldPharmacistsDay to #pharmsky

I'm a pharmacist who like poems and who feels anxious about the fractured nature of things. So I thought I would share something from @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social

Here's to all the small acts of kindness we see across the world of pharmacy every day 💚
September 25, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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SWPRN Newsletter September 2025
Welcome to the September 2025 edition of our newsletter. As ever, this is full of news and information, most importantly including details of our upcoming Innovation Day on 21st October and the new SW
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September 23, 2025 at 7:53 AM