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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.

Evaluation of a community pharmacy dispensing process using a coloured Petri Net (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Naybour, M. T., Remenyte-Prescott, R., & Boyd, M. J. (2018). Evaluation of a community pharmacy dispensing process using a coloured Petri Net. In S. Haugen, A. Barros, C. van Gulijk, T. Kongsvik, & J. E. Vinnem (Eds.), Safety and Reliability : Safe Societies in a Changing World : Proceedings of ESREL 2018, June 17-21, 2018, Trondheim, Norway (2059-2066). https://doi.org/10.1201/9781351174664-259

UK customers visited community pharmacies to receive NHS prescriptions 1.104 billion times in 2016. One study of dispensing errors found an error rate of 3.3%. Severe dispensing inaccuracies often receive a high level of media attention, however, low... Read More about Evaluation of a community pharmacy dispensing process using a coloured Petri Net.

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.

The role of pharmacists in general practice: A realist review (2018)
Journal Article
Anderson, C., Zhan, K., Boyd, M. J., & Mann, C. (2019). The role of pharmacists in general practice: A realist review. Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, 15(4), 338-345. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2018.06.001

Background The review was carried out review prior to evaluating and to inform our research on the clinical pharmacists in general practices pilot, a world leading initiative to improve health care delivery in England. Around 500 pharmacists are... Read More about The role of pharmacists in general practice: A realist review.

‘I expected just to walk in, get my tablets and then walk out’: on framing new community pharmacy services in the English healthcare system (2018)
Journal Article
Latif, A., Waring, J., Watmough, D., Boyd, M. J., & Elliott, R. A. (2018). ‘I expected just to walk in, get my tablets and then walk out’: on framing new community pharmacy services in the English healthcare system. Sociology of Health and Illness, 40(6), 1019-1036. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12739

© 2018 The Authors. Sociology of Health & Illness published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Foundation for SHIL. Reconfiguration of the healthcare division of labour is becoming increasingly attractive in the context of increased patient de... Read More about ‘I expected just to walk in, get my tablets and then walk out’: on framing new community pharmacy services in the English healthcare system.

“Fever means antibiotic”, the Omani public’s attitudes to the use of antibiotics for treating the common cold (2018)
Journal Article
Al Juma, M. A., Anderson, C., & Boyd, M. J. (2018). “Fever means antibiotic”, the Omani public’s attitudes to the use of antibiotics for treating the common cold

Background: Antimicrobial resistance is a worldwide concern to reserve the effectiveness of antibiotics in therapy. The irrational use of antibiotics is one of the factors contributing to antimicrobial resistance. In depth exploration of the public... Read More about “Fever means antibiotic”, the Omani public’s attitudes to the use of antibiotics for treating the common cold.