Discover how pharmacy can help tackle health inequalities for people with M.E.

Pharmacist friend Steph downs tools to show her support for M.E. Awareness Week

I’m currently writing a resource with Action for M.E. for pharmacy teams, but as it’s M.E. awareness week and International Awareness Day today, here’s a post aimed at pharmacy teams with an introduction to M.E./CFS, a quick list of what community pharmacies can do to help their patients with M.E., and some resources for health professionals, such as the pharmaceutical management guidelines, at the end.

#pharmacy24 highlights – what do pharmacy teams actually do?

On 24th March I took part in #pharmacy24, a 24-hour Twitter pharmacy event. I’ve picked out some tweets from the whole event to show the variety of work that pharmacists and pharmacy teams do.

Weekly round-up: A Prescription for M.E. ~ Take ONE weekly

I’ve started using Paper.li to automatically publish a weekly paper on Friday evenings made up of the news and research articles I’ve tweeted during the previous week.

Are you ready for Stoptober?

The 1st of October sees the start of Public Health England‘s annual Stoptober quit smoking campaign. Smokers around the country are making a joint effort to give up smoking for October, so if you try to quit you’ll be in good company!

What would people with M.E. like to see in a resource for pharmacy professionals?

My blog post Please let me know how your pharmacy helps has generated lots of useful comments. As the next step in preparing the resource for pharmacists I’m working on with Action for M.E., I’m asking what you’d like to see in the resource as it’s important to me to have your views on it.

Writing blog posts in an accessible style for people with M.E.

I thought I’d bring together some of the discussions I’ve had on Twitter today about writing accessible blog posts for people with M.E. Yes – a blog post about blog posts!