UKDILAS

If you are a healthcare professional and have a question about the use of medicines in breastfeeding, please contact UKDILAS for advice and support: ☎️0116 258 6491 📧ukdilas.enquiries@nhs.net

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Vanessa Chapman & Laura Kearney @LauraKearney01 offer advice on RPS two stage process to establishing consultant pharmacists. Laura is clinical lead for UK Drugs in Lactation Advisory Service @ukdilas and credentialed as the first Consultant Medicines Advice Pharmacist #UKMi2025

Delighted to share that @LauraKearney01 has successfully been credentialed as a consultant pharmacist!

Laura Kearney is presenting about medication use & breastfeeding @pharmacyshow #PS24UK #DoOnceAndShare (1/2)

Click here for our Safety in Breastfeeding resources ⬇️ sps.nhs.uk/home/guidance/… #PS24UK #DoOnceAndShare (2/2)

@LauraKearney01 speaking at the @pharmacyshow today. Putting the benefits and risks of medicine use back in the balance. #PS24UK

Delighted that Laura Kearney is speaking at this event. invt.io/1txbmk1mrvt

Our weekly podcast is here! Summer Ibrahim, CPhO Clinical Fellow, talks about domperidone for low milk supply, investigating suspected tampering with medicines, & purchasing for safety. Click below to listen ⬇️ soundcloud.com/nhs_sps/25-jun…

We're very pleased to announce publication of our latest article: Using domperidone for low milk supply. This advises on when to consider domperidone, dose, duration, and discontinuing. We hope it's useful. sps.nhs.uk/articles/using…

It's been another busy week for our breastfeeding specialists. New articles include🤱: -Using macrolide antibiotics during breastfeeding -Treating impetigo topically during breastfeeding -Treating rectal and anal disorders during breastfeeding ⬇️ sps.nhs.uk/category/guida…

Fancy giving us some feedback on our published articles? We're supporting an undergraduate research project looking at the breastfeeding information on the SPS website. If you would be interested in taking part, see the link below👇 Thank you! forms.office.com/e/J75AKsDDct?o…

Celebrating #InternationalWomensDay and all the amazing women in the UKDILAS team. Working hard every day to empower and inform to help make decisions about medicine use in breastfeeding.

Have you accessed the advice, guidance and support available on our website about the use of medicines in breastfeeding yet? If not click ⬇️ to access @ukdilas sps.nhs.uk/home/guidance/…

@NHSEngland GPs are great & unfortunately don't get much training on Breastfeeding. There are evidence-based information, websites, charities & organisations out there... 🧵 Including the NHS @ukdilas UK Drugs in Lactation Service.

Thank you for a truly amazing #BFIconf23. It has been inspirational, thought provoking, and uplifting! Also lovely to connect with old friends and new! Such a beautiful venue too! Thank you @babyfriendly!

Oseltamivir and zanamivir can be used during breastfeeding when clinically indicated. Recommendations apply to full term, healthy infants only. sps.nhs.uk/articles/using…

Celebrating #WorldPharmacistsDay2023! Thank you to our brilliant UKDILAS pharmacists supporting breastfeeding in so many ways: published advice, enquiries, education, training, strategy. We are also part of some amazing pharmacy teams @UHLPharmacy @NHS_SPS @UKMedicinesInfo

We also provide the advice for the medicine pages on the NHS website: nhs.uk/medicines/ @NHSDigital

Today, for #NationalBreastfeedingWeek we'd like to point you to some of our published resources. We have lots of guidance on the @NHS_SPS website: Using corticosteroids is one of our recent topics 👇 sps.nhs.uk/articles/using… There's lots more...!!!