Outputs (14)

Managing medicines at the end of life: a position paper for health policy and practice (2021)
Journal Article

Purpose The impact of population aging is significant, multifaceted and characterised by frailty and multi-morbidity. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated care pathways and policies promoting self-management and home-based care. One under-researched... Read More about Managing medicines at the end of life: a position paper for health policy and practice.

Managing medicines at the end of life: a position paper for health policy and practice (2021)
Journal Article

Purpose: The impact of population ageing is significant, multifaceted and characterised by frailty and multi-morbidity. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated care pathways and policies promoting self-management and home-based care. One under-research... Read More about Managing medicines at the end of life: a position paper for health policy and practice.

Understanding and addressing vaccine hesitancy in the context of COVID-19: development of a digital intervention (2021)
Journal Article

Objectives: Severe Acute Respiratory Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was identified in late 2019, spreading to over 200 countries and resulting in almost two million deaths worldwide. The emergence of safe and effective vaccines provides a route out of th... Read More about Understanding and addressing vaccine hesitancy in the context of COVID-19: development of a digital intervention.

Evaluating the safety of mental health-related prescribing in UK primary care: a cross-sectional study using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) (2021)
Journal Article

Background: Most patients with mental illness are managed in primary care, yet there is a lack of data exploring potential prescribing safety issues in this setting for this population. Objectives: Examine the prevalence of, between-practice var... Read More about Evaluating the safety of mental health-related prescribing in UK primary care: a cross-sectional study using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD).

Family and health-care professionals managing medicines for patients with serious and terminal illness at home: a qualitative study (2021)
Journal Article

Background More effective ways of managing symptoms of chronic and terminal illness enable patients to be cared for, and to die, at home. This requires patients and family caregivers to manage complex medicines regimens, including powerful painkille... Read More about Family and health-care professionals managing medicines for patients with serious and terminal illness at home: a qualitative study.

Using chart online comparative analysis service to support the national rollout of PINCER (2021)
Journal Article

Strategies supporting sustainable prescribing safety improvement interventions in English primary care: a qualitative study (2021)
Journal Article

Background: While the use of prescribing safety indicators (PSI) can reduce potentially hazardous prescribing, there is a need to identify actionable strategies for the successful implementation and sustainable delivery of PSI-based interventions in... Read More about Strategies supporting sustainable prescribing safety improvement interventions in English primary care: a qualitative study.

Virtual consultation for red eye (2021)
Journal Article

This article was written with the aim of helping primary care doctors to reflect on their knowledge and skills in managing common ophthalmic condition such as red eye in the community via virtual consultations. Expert opinions (from both ophthalmolog... Read More about Virtual consultation for red eye.

Anticholinergic drugs and risk of dementia: Time for action? (2021)
Journal Article

Evidence suggests that the prescription of bladder anticholinergics is increasing. Recent studies have accentuated concerns about whether certain prescribed medications could increase risk of dementia, including anticholinergic drugs, and specificall... Read More about Anticholinergic drugs and risk of dementia: Time for action?.

The implementation, use and sustainability of a clinical decision support system for medication optimisation in primary care: A qualitative evaluation (2021)
Journal Article

Background: The quality and safety of prescribing in general practice is important, Clinical decision support (CDS) systems can be used which present alerts to health professionals when prescribing in order to identify patients at risk of potentiall... Read More about The implementation, use and sustainability of a clinical decision support system for medication optimisation in primary care: A qualitative evaluation.

Should all pregnant women be offered testing for group B streptococcus? (2021)
Journal Article

From policy to patient: Using a socio-ecological framework to explore the factors influencing safe practice in UK primary care (2021)
Journal Article

Background: The recent and rapid changes in the model of primary care delivery have led to an increased focus on patient safety in what is one of the most diverse and complex healthcare settings. However, previous initiatives have failed to deliver t... Read More about From policy to patient: Using a socio-ecological framework to explore the factors influencing safe practice in UK primary care.

The evaluation of an e-learning prescribing course for general practice (2021)
Journal Article

Prescribed medication may lead to significant morbidity or mortality as a result of these medications causing adverse events, or because of a prescribing error. E-learning is a common tool used in supporting training in prescribing. This paper descri... Read More about The evaluation of an e-learning prescribing course for general practice.

Identifying anticholinergic burden in clinical practice (2021)
Journal Article

Anticholinergic medications are associated with a wide range of adverse effects to which elderly patients are particularly susceptible. This article discusses the various ways that anticholinergic burden can be measured, how these can be used to help... Read More about Identifying anticholinergic burden in clinical practice.