Caroline Parker

Mental health pharmacist. Keen to promote the best use of medicines for people with MH conditions.

[Bilal Topia @Bilal986082221]

Opportunity - Principal Pharmacist Band 8B - click on the link to have a look at this exceptional and varied role:

https://t.co/TuV2HdKAwo?

[The Mental Elf @Mental_Elf]

Antidepressant discontinuation symptoms: what do the data really tell us? https://t.co/yWCYxFf7cW

New review says:
‣ 8-14% of patients will experience antidepressant discontinuation symptoms
‣ For around 2% these symptoms will be severe

#Antidepressants #Discontinuation

[petra brown @petrabrownnhs]

It’s #MedSafetyWeek raising the importance of reporting side effects to medicines. Anyone can report a side effect using the yellow card system - find out how here.

[Dr Cajetan Niall @TradSkowronski]

After Assisted Dying is legalised: Doris, who is frail, and owns her 4 bedroom house, starts to be visited by her nephew, Sam, who hadn't taken much interest in her before.

She likes his visits as he is suddenly very kind to her. He praises her for living independently, and often mentions how awful it would be if she had to go into a care home. He never mentions that the cost of care concerns him.

He always talks about the "indignity" of care homes and how he thinks people must suffer terribly there, looked after by strangers who don't love them.

When she develops pneumonia and has a fall, she goes to hospital. Sam visits often and says how sad it is that she is so dependent on others now. The pneumonia is treated but the doctors think she is too frail to return home to live alone now.

Sam asks Doris if she can bear the idea of living in a care home, he reminds her of the awful stories he has heard of how badly people are treated in care homes.

"I just worry about your quality of life Aunty Dot. If only there was a way you wouldn't have to go through that indignity after such an independent life."

He never mentions Assisted Dying. Doris asks the doctors about it herself, and they agree that she is frail enough that her life expectancy might be less than a year.

At her request, she is given a lethal cocktail of pills which she struggles to swallow, and Sam holds her hand supportively for the three hours it takes for her to die. The staff comment on what a devoted nephew he is.

Sam pays off his mortgage and retires early with the inheritance from Doris's estate. Not a penny was wasted on care homes.

He feels he earned it.

No doctors and no judge could ever detect the way Sam had manipulated his Aunty Dot for months before her request for Assisted Death.

The only effective safeguard against coercion of the vulnerable into Assisted Suicide is if Assisted Suicide remains illegal.

[Caroline Parker @CarolineMHPharm]

@rpharms @Clairewynn

[Caroline Parker @CarolineMHPharm]

@rpharms @Clairewynn The College of Mental Health Pharmacy @CMHPCommunity are here today at the #RPSconf2024 if you work with people with Mental Health problems, come and talk to us.

[Caroline Parker @CarolineMHPharm]

Brilliant new toolkit for reviewing Repeat Prescrbing in primary care, for @rcgp and @rpharms
Prescribing safely
https://t.co/KOpHFhyNQE

[Caroline Parker @CarolineMHPharm]

@rpharms @Clairewynn @CMHPCommunity The College of Mental Health Pharmacy @CMHPCommunity is open to anyone interested in MH Pharmcy, any sector, both techs & ph.

[Caroline Parker @CarolineMHPharm]

@rpharms @Clairewynn CMHP members here today at this conference focusing on " Working across boundaries" to share the newly launched MH Advanced Practice curriculum @CMHPCommunity

[Royal College of Pharmacy @rc_pharm]

President @Clairewynn opens #RPSConf2024 discussing significant changes in pharmacy including all newly qualified pharmacists being independent prescribers from day one of their registration in 2026. “The impact from these changes will ripple out across all professional practice"

[David Webb @davidwebb_1]

Applications are open for the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme - 12 months of free support and learning, including education, mentoring, and networking. Visit https://t.co/9YNrKHNtcp for more details and apply by 29 October.

[Vanessa Earnshaw @VanessaEarnshaw]

So many interesting conversations about the importance of good clinical supervision and ways to enhance the wellbeing of Pharmacy staff #CMHP24 Thanks to the CMHP community and @harpreetchana for your inspiring session👏 @couper_fiona @JasmeenIslam

[CMHP @CMHPCommunity]

Inspirational speech by @KarenPharm challenging us to think about how we make our workplaces safe and inclusive spaces for people to thrive and develop to be the best they can be #CMHP24

[Caroline Parker @CarolineMHPharm]

Brilliant and huge project, really well done. Keep up the good work! I look forward to seeing this published sometime soon.

[NELFT Pharmacy @NELFTPharmacy]

#CMHP24

[Hannah Macfarlane (she/her) @Macfarlanes25]

Want to develop your knowledge and skills in mental health therapeutics? Applications are open for the PG Certificate in Mental Health Therapeutics at Aston University. Deadline: 27th November https://t.co/w3ZW7hqOOJ @Aston_Pharmacy @Prof_Ian_M @DrDollySud_PhD

[Kristy @kristygarton11]

CMHP conference 24 today! Enjoying chatting with so many Pharmacy Technicians. Please come and say hello if you haven’t already #cmhp24 @aptuk1

[Caroline Parker @CarolineMHPharm]

If anyone would be interested in joining our friendly MH ph team in Gloucestershire, come and have a chat @CMHPCommunity 😊 https://t.co/J1x8TwIhMI…

[Caroline Parker @CarolineMHPharm]

If anyone would be interested in joining Rachel and me in the MH ph team in Gloucestershire , do come and have a chat 😊 https://t.co/sy6ULZUusp

[Caroline Parker @CarolineMHPharm]

Presenting a poster at the College of Mental Health Pharmacy Annual conference about our trusts' patterns of prescribing clozapine
#CMHP24

[The Mental Elf @Mental_Elf]

@pchitsabesan Thirteen out of fifty-four have MH Pharmacists embedded within children's service, equating to 9 FTE posts - we have a long way to go to ensure Pharmacy is fully embedded within these services to ensure access to pharmacological tx is improved @pchitsabesan #CMHP24