Helen Hương Kilminster

Proud of the profession I belong to 💚 Grateful to be part of patient care 💙 #WPD2026

ARRS pharmacist numbers fall for fourth month in a row #ARRS #Pharmacist #GP #Pharmacy #PrimaryCare #NHSEngland

Machine learning analysis of patient-clinician conversations identified cognitive impairment with sensitivity 68% and specificity 64%, supporting passive speech-based screening in routine #PrimaryCare. ja.ma/4xBpjvE

Old skool vibes - interesting challenging conversations around the room regarding Neighbourhoods Integration + the plans for General Practice for the year ahead 🔮

A great podcast on the importance of clinical coding, a highly recommend listen from the very talented @pcpa-uk.bsky.social very own @hpillminster.pharmsky.app 👏 @ukcpa.bsky.social @hfhubscotland.bsky.social

Tase Oputu is the first President of the new Royal College of Pharmacy. In this video message she sets out the case for creating an influential, inclusive professional home by uniting diverse sectors and translating ambition into practical career frameworks and standards: https://ow.ly/RRap50YNyn6

Can’t see many posts on here about this change in the Pharmacy world. Royal Pharmaceutical Society now becomes Royal College of Pharmacy @rc-pharm.bsky.social I’m guessing there are mix views, including some nonplussed views out there. Let’s keep sharing our views on socials. #PharmTweeps

For many new leaders, confidence is the real challenge. Release Your Potential helps you: ✅ find your leadership identity ✅ build your voice ✅ lead with clarity. Stepping into leadership? This programme is for you. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4rBK8nK

CLOSING THIS WEEK: SPCR Post-Doctoral Fellowship – exclusively for University of Bristol. Applicants do not need to be employed by an SPCR member to apply. 🗓 Deadline: 15 April 2026, 15:00 🚀 Start by: 1 October 2026 Apply now 👇 bit.ly/41fiPUQ #Postdoctoralfellowship #SPCR #PrimaryCare #Research

OK 🦋 what have I missed??

Join over 2,000 colleagues at the SEC Glasgow on 29–30 October. The RCGP Annual Conference and Exhibition gives you time away from the demands of daily practice to reflect, learn, and reconnect with your professional purpose. Grab your early bird tickets. www.rcgpac.org.uk/tickets #RCGPAC26

📢Awards, Abstracts and Educational Bursary's are OPEN for applications! Abstracts https://profile.eventsair.com/aptuk-2026/abstract-submisson Awards https://profile.eventsair.com/aptuk-2026/awards25 Educational bursaries. https://profile.eventsair.com/aptuk-2026/educational-bursary #APTUK2026

“They’ve been researching cancer for decades, and there’s no change.” We get comments like this a lot – but the reality is research 𝘪𝘴 making a difference. Latest figures from our friends @cancerresearchuk.org show UK cancer death rates have fallen 29% since 1989 and 11% in the last decade.

Are you looking to showcase your brand to leading #pharmacy professionals? We have sponsorship and exhibition opportunities at the #GNPRCC2026! 10th July 2026, Hilton Hotel, Newcastle Gateshead For details, contact Sarah Black: sarah.black@healthinnovationnenc.org.uk @gtnorthpharmres.bsky.social

📣 BMJ Medicine is now on Bluesky 📣 Follow them at @bmjmedicine.bsky.social

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus 🌼 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 my forever happy place to be, formed from endless childhood and family happy memories so many beautiful, lush places in Cymru #dyddgwyldewihapus #StDavidsDay

Anniversaries & festivals never get easier without you Mum… I hope I may continue our family traditions for many more years to come and the Mini K will continue to burn incense for all our ancestors. Sending strength & prayers to those remembering who used to sit around those bountiful tables 🧧

Chúc mừng năm mới 🧧 新年快樂 (San nin faai lok) 🧧 Honouring my Vietnamese heritage and Cantonese childhood. Wishing everyone who is celebrating a good health, happiness & fortune for the year ahead 🐎 From our house to your house 💕 #Tet #ChineseNewYear #YearoftheHorse

In this short recording, Graham Stretch, President of the PCPA, outlinines ambitious and inclusive proposals for a new Royal College and a strengthened, more unified leadership voice for pharmacy. #TransformationInPharmacy

The UKPPLAB has today published an open letter on which @pcpa-uk.bsky.social is a co-signatory. Please join one of the webinars linked from the letter jointheconversation.scwcsu.nhs.uk/pharmacy-pro... @aptuk.bsky.social @bopa.org.uk @cmhpcommunity.pharmsky.app @rpharms.com @ukcpa.bsky.social

#vaccinationworks to prevent cancer. Well done Denmark!

🧵 Is it a super flu year? Who knows, but I think the current reporting is stupid. A pissed off thread using data. Firstly - here are today's headlines and some from the last 3 years... spot the difference. 1/10

🔥Updated @medscape.com primary care #hack on #lipid management🔥 Incorporates 🔑messages from @escardio.bsky.social @eassociety.bsky.social focused update on #lipid modification guidance PDF download link in comments 👇🏾 @hpillminster.pharmsky.app @pharmrj.pharmsky.app

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💪🏾Mind the Muscle: Incretin Therapies for Weight Loss 💪🏾 🔥The hottest of topics with incretin therapies🔥 Here's my last @medscape.com perspective piece from the ObesityWeek congress in Atlanta - link in comments 👇🏾 @pharmrj.pharmsky.app @hpillminster.pharmsky.app @jjmounjaro.bsky.social

Ooh look at @thetimes.com sports books of 2025. @lilycanter.bsky.social and I did not know this was happening until I started getting WhatsApp messages as Granny had spotted it. Not bad for a book that was rejected by multiple publishers who weren't interested in women's stories.

Always good to get updates from Philip Newland-Jones on diabetes care. New NICE updates on the horizon. SGLT2i value highlighted for new diagnosis of T2DM + CVD risk. Challenges the clinical inertia with SGLT2i for patient who are frail, female and from ethnic minority backgrounds #PCPAevents

Recommended read 📖 NHSE Update from Richard Cattell at PCPA Leadership Conference www.england.nhs.uk/publication/... #PCPAevents

@pcpa-uk.bsky.social ANNUAL LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE Welcome address by Minesh Parbat & UKPPLAB Update from @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app #PCPAevents

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).

Menopause is now part of routine NHS health checks - a step in the right direction for women’s health 👏 Support your patients with practical tools, pathways & guidance from PCWHS. Explore our menopause resources 🔗 www.pcwhs.co.uk/resources #WomensHealth #Menopause #PrimaryCare

Oooo worth a listen! @drkevinfernando.bsky.social knows how to draw a crowd and guaranteed to delivered superb CPD content. Let me present BlueSky Exhibit A: @bestpracticeshow.bsky.social Session on LFTs (Bonus points if you can spot me!) #BestPracticeShow #GPsky #PrimaryCare

Also there for DAY 2. One of the best pharmacists around! Catch him if you can!!! #PS25UK #PharmacyShow

Day 1 @bestpracticeshow.bsky.social ✅ Highlights for me: - packed out session by @drkevinfernando.bsky.social on abnormal LFTS. Who knew that clinical diploma module on hepatic med would be handy? - Meeting some @nhsconfed.org Alumni - Catching with ex PCCLEs & my BFF @pharmrj.pharmsky.app

Congrats Abbie, our PCPA Pharmacy Technician Chair on winning APTUK Advancing Cinical Practice Award tonight @aptuk.bsky.social @abbiestirling.bsky.social @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app

We did it! Macmillan Walk To a Support 10k Bham. The winklets did good; finished by 2hrs! The rain just came in at the last 800m. So proud of them. This one’s for Nanny Pat, close friends & my lovely patients over the past 20 years 💚 www.justgiving.com/page/teamkilmo

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If you take one thing from World Suicide Prevention Day today it should be this: if you think someone isn’t OK, ask them about it. You can interrupt someone’s suicidal thoughts. You could even save their life. Let’s prevent suicide today. Because tomorrow’s too late. ☎️ 116 123 #MentalHealth

We are HIRING! Researchers & analysts Come and join us shipping code, papers and tools like OpenSAFELY and OpenPrescribing www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/09...

2 weeks to go! And of course I’ve forgotten to the share the Mini K’s Macmillan 10k JustGiving Page! Obvs I’ll be with them. This our first charity outing! If you able to repost - like or even donate VERY MUCH APPRECIATED! #MiniKs10Kcharityhike #helpushelpthem www.justgiving.com/page/teamkilmo

Great opportunity to join us at the University of Leeds as a Research Fellow in Quality and Safety, focusing on applied research to improve medicines safety and patient safety... jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

You can't say you weren't warned...

Saw a few weeks ago that someone wanted to re-start #pharmfoods on here so I give you Italian chicken melt with roasted new potatoes. Wash He's down with a Lidl Pulia Red (only £7 from Lidl)

Looking for resources to help optimize the use of medications in older adults? ➡️ Find our deprescribing.org guidelines and algorithms here: buff.ly/PoE6sPh ➡️ Find our Deprescribing Guidelines Repository (DEPOT) to remain up-to-date with new guidelines in development here: buff.ly/0wQL2fF

.#PharmacyTechnicians working in Great Britain in GP practice/PCNs please consider participating in this survey that @abbiestirling.bsky.social from @pcpa-uk.bsky.social is leading on. forms.gle/duA5Voff6eLV...

@rpharms.com is holding “strategy engagement events” as part of its preparation to transition into a Royal College. There will be events for members, students, public and Pharmaceutical scientists Details in link below (as well as a comprehensive faq) #PharmSky www.rpharms.com/royalcollege

How is everyone? What have I missed?! Here are my reads over the past 10 days. Any good reads suggestions welcome 📚 #BookSky #NothingBeatsAJet2Holiday

A great honour to receive the award of Honorary Doctor of the University of Portsmouth and address the 2025 Faculty of Science & Health graduands. Thank you all again for being so gracious & generous to me over the years - www.port.ac.uk/news-events-...