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Ant colony optimisation of a community pharmacy dispensing process using Coloured Petri-Net simulation and UK pharmacy in-field data (2022)
Journal Article
Naybour, M. T., Remenyte-Prescott, R., & Boyd, M. (2024). Ant colony optimisation of a community pharmacy dispensing process using Coloured Petri-Net simulation and UK pharmacy in-field data. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability, 238(1), 29-43. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748006X221135459

There are 11,619 community pharmacies in England which dispense over 1 billion prescriptions each year, providing essential primary care to NHS (National Health Service) patients. These pharmacies are facing pressure from a number of sources includin... Read More about Ant colony optimisation of a community pharmacy dispensing process using Coloured Petri-Net simulation and UK pharmacy in-field data.

Ant colony optimisation for community pharmacy dispensing process based on infield observations (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Naybour, M., Remenyte-Prescott, R., & Boyd, M. (2019). Ant colony optimisation for community pharmacy dispensing process based on infield observations. In Proceedings of the 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL) (4249-4256). https://doi.org/10.3850/978-981-11-2724-3_0465-cd

he community pharmacy dispensing process is an integral part of delivering effective primary care to patients around the world. However, dispensing error rates and related patient safety issues are always a concern in the sector, where studies have f... Read More about Ant colony optimisation for community pharmacy dispensing process based on infield observations.

Ant colony optimisation for community pharmacy dispensing process based on in-field observations (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Naybour, M., Remenyte-Prescott, R., & Boyd, M. (2019). Ant colony optimisation for community pharmacy dispensing process based on in-field observations. In M. Beer, & E. Zio (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2019), 4249-4257. https://doi.org/10.3850/978-981-11-2724-3_+0465-cd

The community pharmacy dispensing process is an integral part of delivering effective primary care to patients around the world. However, dispensing error rates and related patient safety issues are always a concern in the sector, where studies have... Read More about Ant colony optimisation for community pharmacy dispensing process based on in-field observations.

Reliability and efficiency evaluation of a community pharmacy dispensing process using a coloured Petri-net approach (2018)
Journal Article
Naybour, M., Remenyte-Prescott, R., & Boyd, M. J. (2019). Reliability and efficiency evaluation of a community pharmacy dispensing process using a coloured Petri-net approach. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 182, 258-268. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2018.09.022

© 2018 It has been estimated that European customers visit community pharmacies to access essential primary healthcare around 46 million times every day. Studies of dispensing error rates in community pharmacies have reported error rates of between 0... Read More about Reliability and efficiency evaluation of a community pharmacy dispensing process using a coloured Petri-net approach.

Reliability modelling of dispensing processes in community pharmacy (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Naybour, M., Remenyte-Prescott, R., & Boyd, M. (2018). Reliability modelling of dispensing processes in community pharmacy. In Proceedings of the 10th IMA International Conference on Modelling in Industrial Maintenance and Reliability. https://doi.org/10.19124/ima.2018.001.18

Studies of error rates in community pharmacies have reported error rates of between 0.014% and 3.3% per item dispensed. This suggests up to 36 million items per year may contain errors in England. In addition, literature shows that patient satisfacti... Read More about Reliability modelling of dispensing processes in community pharmacy.