Jane Shanahan
@janeshanahan.bsky.social
Snr Care Home Pharmacy Technician. Anticholinergics, polypharmacy, deprescribing. Speaker at The University of Lancashire
#FindYourEvelyn
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#FindYourEvelyn
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Jane Shanahan
@janeshanahan.bsky.social
· Aug 13
Public/ private medication trial achieves 'remarkable' results
A partnership between an NHS Trust and a private social care provider which aimed to reduce medications for residents is set to be rolled out nationwide
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Delighted & proud that our carehome meds opt team at East Lancs Hospitals have allowed Evelyn,a 101yo lady to achieve what matters to her. Hoping other carehome providers start to implement now. Empowering care staff.
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#FindyourEvelyn #SafeDeprescribing
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#FindyourEvelyn #SafeDeprescribing
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In tomorrow's episode of #TalkingMeds @jonathanunderhill.pharmsky.app talks to @formulazoeg.bsky.social about 'Prescribing Hot Topics' - including recent @nicecomms.bsky.social and @mhragovuk.bsky.social changes.
Find out more and listen here: www.prescqipp.info/our-resource...
Find out more and listen here: www.prescqipp.info/our-resource...
November 13, 2025 at 10:35 AM
In tomorrow's episode of #TalkingMeds @jonathanunderhill.pharmsky.app talks to @formulazoeg.bsky.social about 'Prescribing Hot Topics' - including recent @nicecomms.bsky.social and @mhragovuk.bsky.social changes.
Find out more and listen here: www.prescqipp.info/our-resource...
Find out more and listen here: www.prescqipp.info/our-resource...
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Great to see our new paper out in print. Community-acquired pneumonia is both ab acute and a long-term issue. Failure to identify the pathogen, failure to understand the pathobiology and failure to grasp the long-term consequences have all contributed to the limited improvements in outcome to date.
Community-acquired pneumonia is the leading infectious cause of morbidity and mortality globally.
Yet, there are several challenges associated with diagnosis, treatment, and long-term management of Community-acquired pneumonia.
Find out more in a new Seminar: tinyurl.com/hd2fwz7n
Yet, there are several challenges associated with diagnosis, treatment, and long-term management of Community-acquired pneumonia.
Find out more in a new Seminar: tinyurl.com/hd2fwz7n
November 16, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Great to see our new paper out in print. Community-acquired pneumonia is both ab acute and a long-term issue. Failure to identify the pathogen, failure to understand the pathobiology and failure to grasp the long-term consequences have all contributed to the limited improvements in outcome to date.
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Listening to music most days could guard against dementia, study suggests wapo.st/4puXAZB
#Alzheimers #dementia #music #health #wellness
#Alzheimers #dementia #music #health #wellness
Listening to music most days could guard against dementia, study suggests
A new study finds that regularly listening to music or playing a musical instrument may help older adults protect against cognitive decline.
wapo.st
November 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Listening to music most days could guard against dementia, study suggests wapo.st/4puXAZB
#Alzheimers #dementia #music #health #wellness
#Alzheimers #dementia #music #health #wellness
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New event for community pharmacy and general practice launched
Join forces with over 1,000 primary care professionals at our new Community Pharmacy and General Practice Conference, in association with the National Pharmacy Association (NPA).
Join forces with over 1,000 primary care professionals at our new Community Pharmacy and General Practice Conference, in association with the National Pharmacy Association (NPA).
New event for community pharmacy and general practice launched
Join forces with over 1,000 primary care professionals at our new Community Pharmacy and General Practice Conference, in association with the NPA
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November 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
New event for community pharmacy and general practice launched
Join forces with over 1,000 primary care professionals at our new Community Pharmacy and General Practice Conference, in association with the National Pharmacy Association (NPA).
Join forces with over 1,000 primary care professionals at our new Community Pharmacy and General Practice Conference, in association with the National Pharmacy Association (NPA).
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This week’s #podcast explores the importance of #reading in #olderage and considers the topic of #friendship which is the theme of this year’s #BookWeekScotland 2025. open.spotify.com/episode/0dmu...
The Quiet Power of Friendship: A Reflection for Book Week Scotland 2025
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November 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
This week’s #podcast explores the importance of #reading in #olderage and considers the topic of #friendship which is the theme of this year’s #BookWeekScotland 2025. open.spotify.com/episode/0dmu...
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In a new JCP article and podcast episode, Drs. Nicolas Badre and Eric Geier present a practical #anticholinergic equivalence table to help clinicians assess and minimize psychotropic anticholinergic burden.
🎧 Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
📰 Article: journals.lww.com/psychopharma...
🎧 Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
📰 Article: journals.lww.com/psychopharma...
November 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
In a new JCP article and podcast episode, Drs. Nicolas Badre and Eric Geier present a practical #anticholinergic equivalence table to help clinicians assess and minimize psychotropic anticholinergic burden.
🎧 Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
📰 Article: journals.lww.com/psychopharma...
🎧 Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
📰 Article: journals.lww.com/psychopharma...
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FREE & easy access to
Safe Management of Medicines' elearning for social care staff.
Based on CQC/NICE requirements. It's FREE!
4 modules with certification & access to a comprehensive interactive guide
It's FREE!
Improving residents' outcomes
Supporting care homes 🏡❤️
e-lfh.org.uk/safer-manage...
Safe Management of Medicines' elearning for social care staff.
Based on CQC/NICE requirements. It's FREE!
4 modules with certification & access to a comprehensive interactive guide
It's FREE!
Improving residents' outcomes
Supporting care homes 🏡❤️
e-lfh.org.uk/safer-manage...
April 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
FREE & easy access to
Safe Management of Medicines' elearning for social care staff.
Based on CQC/NICE requirements. It's FREE!
4 modules with certification & access to a comprehensive interactive guide
It's FREE!
Improving residents' outcomes
Supporting care homes 🏡❤️
e-lfh.org.uk/safer-manage...
Safe Management of Medicines' elearning for social care staff.
Based on CQC/NICE requirements. It's FREE!
4 modules with certification & access to a comprehensive interactive guide
It's FREE!
Improving residents' outcomes
Supporting care homes 🏡❤️
e-lfh.org.uk/safer-manage...
Reposted by Jane Shanahan
Medicines Use in Care Homes.
3 courses. High quality elearning from @prescqipp.info to support anyone working in,or supporting care homes to safely manage medicines.
Multiple modules, quizzes, certificates.
#supportingcarehomes 🏡❤️
#NPCHF
3 courses. High quality elearning from @prescqipp.info to support anyone working in,or supporting care homes to safely manage medicines.
Multiple modules, quizzes, certificates.
#supportingcarehomes 🏡❤️
#NPCHF
July 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Medicines Use in Care Homes.
3 courses. High quality elearning from @prescqipp.info to support anyone working in,or supporting care homes to safely manage medicines.
Multiple modules, quizzes, certificates.
#supportingcarehomes 🏡❤️
#NPCHF
3 courses. High quality elearning from @prescqipp.info to support anyone working in,or supporting care homes to safely manage medicines.
Multiple modules, quizzes, certificates.
#supportingcarehomes 🏡❤️
#NPCHF
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Delighted to share details of @nihr.bsky.social James Lind Alliance research priority setting survey for delirium. For completion by UK health/social professionals and those with personal experience of delirium.
Complete the survey and have your say. More details 👇
www.qmul.ac.uk/wiph/centres...
Complete the survey and have your say. More details 👇
www.qmul.ac.uk/wiph/centres...
A Delirium (UK) James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership - Wolfson Institute of Population Health
www.qmul.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Delighted to share details of @nihr.bsky.social James Lind Alliance research priority setting survey for delirium. For completion by UK health/social professionals and those with personal experience of delirium.
Complete the survey and have your say. More details 👇
www.qmul.ac.uk/wiph/centres...
Complete the survey and have your say. More details 👇
www.qmul.ac.uk/wiph/centres...
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💊 5 Tips to Manage Polypharmacy:
A toolkit co-developed by Canada’s Drug Agency, @ismpcanada.bsky.social & @deprescribing.bsky.social to help primary care providers identify and address polypharmacy with their patients.
Download the toolkit here:
www.cda-amc.ca/appropriate-...
A toolkit co-developed by Canada’s Drug Agency, @ismpcanada.bsky.social & @deprescribing.bsky.social to help primary care providers identify and address polypharmacy with their patients.
Download the toolkit here:
www.cda-amc.ca/appropriate-...
November 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
💊 5 Tips to Manage Polypharmacy:
A toolkit co-developed by Canada’s Drug Agency, @ismpcanada.bsky.social & @deprescribing.bsky.social to help primary care providers identify and address polypharmacy with their patients.
Download the toolkit here:
www.cda-amc.ca/appropriate-...
A toolkit co-developed by Canada’s Drug Agency, @ismpcanada.bsky.social & @deprescribing.bsky.social to help primary care providers identify and address polypharmacy with their patients.
Download the toolkit here:
www.cda-amc.ca/appropriate-...
Reposted by Jane Shanahan
Drum roll!! This is a very special document and will CHANGE PRACTICE www.bgs.org.uk/PragmaticPre...
www.bgs.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Drum roll!! This is a very special document and will CHANGE PRACTICE www.bgs.org.uk/PragmaticPre...
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Professor Elizabeth Orton will speak in the House of Commons this week on how physical activity can boost the health and wellbeing of older adults.
She will present evidence on the Falls Management Exercise (FaME) programme and its impact.
Read more:
🔗 arc-em.nihr.ac.uk/news/notting...
She will present evidence on the Falls Management Exercise (FaME) programme and its impact.
Read more:
🔗 arc-em.nihr.ac.uk/news/notting...
November 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Professor Elizabeth Orton will speak in the House of Commons this week on how physical activity can boost the health and wellbeing of older adults.
She will present evidence on the Falls Management Exercise (FaME) programme and its impact.
Read more:
🔗 arc-em.nihr.ac.uk/news/notting...
She will present evidence on the Falls Management Exercise (FaME) programme and its impact.
Read more:
🔗 arc-em.nihr.ac.uk/news/notting...
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Join Zoe Girdis for our Prescribing Mastery webinar on 'GI focus on PPI reviews'.
This series is ideal for:
💊Pharmacists
💊GPs
💊Nurse practitioners
💊Healthcare professionals involved in prescribing/medication management
Register 👉 https://www.prescqipp.info/learning/prescribing-mastery-webinars/
This series is ideal for:
💊Pharmacists
💊GPs
💊Nurse practitioners
💊Healthcare professionals involved in prescribing/medication management
Register 👉 https://www.prescqipp.info/learning/prescribing-mastery-webinars/
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Join Zoe Girdis for our Prescribing Mastery webinar on 'GI focus on PPI reviews'.
This series is ideal for:
💊Pharmacists
💊GPs
💊Nurse practitioners
💊Healthcare professionals involved in prescribing/medication management
Register 👉 https://www.prescqipp.info/learning/prescribing-mastery-webinars/
This series is ideal for:
💊Pharmacists
💊GPs
💊Nurse practitioners
💊Healthcare professionals involved in prescribing/medication management
Register 👉 https://www.prescqipp.info/learning/prescribing-mastery-webinars/
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Don't forget our offer of £5 off all eLearning resources purchased from our store throughout November.
This includes our new 'Look-Alike Sound-Alike error awareness and prevention' course for healthcare professionals.
Visit our #eLearning store to purchase: https://store.prescqipp.info
This includes our new 'Look-Alike Sound-Alike error awareness and prevention' course for healthcare professionals.
Visit our #eLearning store to purchase: https://store.prescqipp.info
November 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Don't forget our offer of £5 off all eLearning resources purchased from our store throughout November.
This includes our new 'Look-Alike Sound-Alike error awareness and prevention' course for healthcare professionals.
Visit our #eLearning store to purchase: https://store.prescqipp.info
This includes our new 'Look-Alike Sound-Alike error awareness and prevention' course for healthcare professionals.
Visit our #eLearning store to purchase: https://store.prescqipp.info
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Please join us online and in-person this Wednesday (12th November) for the next event in our seminar series with Dr Nathan Keates - ' #Autistic Relations: Link-mindedness, Identities, and Community'. The event is free to attend and all are welcome!
Please follow the link for more info and booking:
Please follow the link for more info and booking:
Autistic Relations: Like-mindedness, Identities, and Community
The Learning Disabilities and Autism Research Group invites you to a hybrid seminar by Dr Nathan Keates
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November 10, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Please join us online and in-person this Wednesday (12th November) for the next event in our seminar series with Dr Nathan Keates - ' #Autistic Relations: Link-mindedness, Identities, and Community'. The event is free to attend and all are welcome!
Please follow the link for more info and booking:
Please follow the link for more info and booking:
Reposted by Jane Shanahan
🚨 Physician Alert: Urinary drugs increase risk of dementia
- Anticholinergic therapy was linked to a 28% increased risk compared to those who used mirabegron (a beta-3 agonist). Mirabegron may be a safer alternative for long-term management. Repost. 📰 htt*ps://buff.ly/lFHYCuJ
- Anticholinergic therapy was linked to a 28% increased risk compared to those who used mirabegron (a beta-3 agonist). Mirabegron may be a safer alternative for long-term management. Repost. 📰 htt*ps://buff.ly/lFHYCuJ
November 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM
🚨 Physician Alert: Urinary drugs increase risk of dementia
- Anticholinergic therapy was linked to a 28% increased risk compared to those who used mirabegron (a beta-3 agonist). Mirabegron may be a safer alternative for long-term management. Repost. 📰 htt*ps://buff.ly/lFHYCuJ
- Anticholinergic therapy was linked to a 28% increased risk compared to those who used mirabegron (a beta-3 agonist). Mirabegron may be a safer alternative for long-term management. Repost. 📰 htt*ps://buff.ly/lFHYCuJ
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This learning article explores how to recognise opportunities for medicines optimisation and rationalisation during the course of the patient journey following a frailty-related hospital admission
#ukpharmacy #frailty
#ukpharmacy #frailty
Frailty and the patient journey
Frailty of old age and deprivation are two of the most common determinants influencing a patient’s likelihood to be admitted to A&E1. There is a recognised geographical correlation between advanced…
buff.ly
November 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This learning article explores how to recognise opportunities for medicines optimisation and rationalisation during the course of the patient journey following a frailty-related hospital admission
#ukpharmacy #frailty
#ukpharmacy #frailty
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Aseptic services should be “ringfenced” amid cuts to NHS England trusts, the House of Lords Public Services Committee was told at an inquiry into medicine security
#ukpharmacy #aseptic
#ukpharmacy #aseptic
Chemotherapy for 13,000 patients at risk owing to 'significant' aseptic capacity issue, warns ex-NHS England lead
Aseptic services should be “ringfenced” amid cuts to NHS England trusts, the House of Lords Public Services Committee was told at an inquiry into medicine security. Speaking at the inquiry on 5…
buff.ly
November 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Aseptic services should be “ringfenced” amid cuts to NHS England trusts, the House of Lords Public Services Committee was told at an inquiry into medicine security
#ukpharmacy #aseptic
#ukpharmacy #aseptic
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Possibly one of the biggest changes in microbiology has been going on quietly over the past decade. Whilst this remains a diagnostic in development- and we have much to learn about how to use it- it represents a step change in how we manage infections.
New research article
Rapid pan-microbial metagenomics for pathogen detection and personalised therapy in the intensive care unit: a single-centre prospective observational study
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#IDSky #ClinMicro #OpenAccess #OA
Rapid pan-microbial metagenomics for pathogen detection and personalised therapy in the intensive care unit: a single-centre prospective observational study
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#IDSky #ClinMicro #OpenAccess #OA
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Possibly one of the biggest changes in microbiology has been going on quietly over the past decade. Whilst this remains a diagnostic in development- and we have much to learn about how to use it- it represents a step change in how we manage infections.
Reposted by Jane Shanahan
Carers Link Lancashire will be joining Ribble Valley Dementia Alliance on Friday 28th November from 1pm till 3pm. Come and join us for an informal event where we will be providing information about local services for people living with dementia in the Ribble Valley.
There's no need to book, it is a
There's no need to book, it is a
November 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Carers Link Lancashire will be joining Ribble Valley Dementia Alliance on Friday 28th November from 1pm till 3pm. Come and join us for an informal event where we will be providing information about local services for people living with dementia in the Ribble Valley.
There's no need to book, it is a
There's no need to book, it is a
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New article on the hub this week - Medication adverse reactions and patient safety. www.pslhub.org/learn/patien... #patientsafety
Medication adverse reactions and patient safety
This year’s #MedSafetyWeek focuses on the theme “we can all help make medicines safer”. Patient Safety Learning have collated patient interviews and blogs shared on the hub that raise awareness of med...
www.pslhub.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:16 AM
New article on the hub this week - Medication adverse reactions and patient safety. www.pslhub.org/learn/patien... #patientsafety
Oct 2025 Anticholinergic burden and incident dementia: a Swedish nationwide case-control study
'In conclusion, this nationwide case-control study reveals a dose-response relationship between dementia risk and cumulative use of strong anticholinergic drugs'
alzres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
'In conclusion, this nationwide case-control study reveals a dose-response relationship between dementia risk and cumulative use of strong anticholinergic drugs'
alzres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Anticholinergic burden and incident dementia: a Swedish nationwide case-control study - Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
Background Cumulative exposure to multiple drugs with anticholinergic properties, known as anticholinergic burden, has been linked to dementia risk. We aimed to thoroughly assess this relationship by ...
alzres.biomedcentral.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Oct 2025 Anticholinergic burden and incident dementia: a Swedish nationwide case-control study
'In conclusion, this nationwide case-control study reveals a dose-response relationship between dementia risk and cumulative use of strong anticholinergic drugs'
alzres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
'In conclusion, this nationwide case-control study reveals a dose-response relationship between dementia risk and cumulative use of strong anticholinergic drugs'
alzres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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November 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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New e-learning course launched! Our 'Look-Alike Sound-Alike error awareness and prevention' course is now available for healthcare professionals.
Visit our #elearning store to purchase and get £5 off throughout November: https://store.prescqipp.info
Visit our #elearning store to purchase and get £5 off throughout November: https://store.prescqipp.info
November 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM
New e-learning course launched! Our 'Look-Alike Sound-Alike error awareness and prevention' course is now available for healthcare professionals.
Visit our #elearning store to purchase and get £5 off throughout November: https://store.prescqipp.info
Visit our #elearning store to purchase and get £5 off throughout November: https://store.prescqipp.info